Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal texts on Houthi attack
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Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order against deleting any messages in the controversial chat.
A federal judge has announced he will order the United States government to preserve messages from a Signal chat where top officials discussed plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen.
That chat has since become the subject of a national controversy, stemming from the accidental inclusion of a journalist from The Atlantic magazine in the discussion, which revealed sensitive military information.
On Thursday, Judge James Boasberg ruled that the administration of President Donald Trump must take measures to keep records of the full conversation between March 11 and March 15, when the journalist had access to the conversation.
The judge’s order stems from concerns that the messages might be deleted, in violation of federal records law.
A nonprofit watchdog called American Oversight had filed for a temporary restraining order to prevent the deletion of the original messages, which were ultimately published this week in The Atlantic.
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