A federal judge has ordered Trump’s government to preserve the contents of the chat in which national security officials use signal applications to discuss military attacks in Yemen when they took place earlier this month.
The US District Judge James Boasberg ordered the top cabinet officials mentioned in the lawsuit by the American government transparency group to maintain messages sent and received more than the signal between March 11 and March 15.
Benjamin Sparks, a lawyer who represented American supervision, expressed his concern that “these messages are the dangers of destruction that will soon occur” because the arrangement in the signal that can be set to delete messages automatically – Encourages Judge Boasberg to order Trump’s government to submit the Oath Declaration on Monday to ensure the message is stored.
The lawsuit-who mentioned the name of the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Director of CIA John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Besen, as a signal.
The use of the signal group chat was revealed on Monday by Atlantic Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who said he was accidentally added to the conversation as a leading national security official, including hegseth and national security advisor Mike Waltz, was discussing military operations.
According to the screenshots of the signal message issued by Atlantic, the messages are arranged to disappear after a certain period of time. Initially, the message was arranged to disappear after one week. Then, according to the screenshot of the message published by the magazine, on March 15 – after Hegseth sent the first operational update – the messages were determined to disappear after four weeks.
Judge Boasberg refused, for now, to order administrative officials to reveal whether the signal has been used by Trump’s administration in a broader context.
The Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke to the media after arriving at the base with Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu, March 24, 2025.
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“I don’t think at this point that it is something I will be ready to order,” he said.
At the heel of President Donald Trump on Thursday morning accused Boasberg on social media “achieved ‘Trump cases’ for himself,” the judge began the trial by giving a detailed description of the DC District Court automatic system to assign cases, including how each judge was allocated “Electronic Card” to ensure cases are distributed fairly.
“That’s how it works, and that’s how all cases continue to be assigned in this course,” said Judge Boasberg.
Boasberg earlier this month temporarily blocking the use of President Donald Trump’s aliens to deport more than 200 alleged gang members to El Salvador without a reasonable process, leading the White House to call on his impeachment and openly attack him as “Democratic activists” and “Radical Left Litik Lunatic.”
Lawyers to the Department of Defense, before the trial on Thursday, submitted a declaration stating that they had requested that the copy of the signal message be forwarded to the official DOD account so that they could be preserved.
The second declaration, from a lawyer to the Ministry of Finance, stated that the Minister of Finance Scott Besent, together with the Chief of Staff of Bessent, had maintained all the messages that began with the message of Mike Waltz on March 15.
President Trump and other top administrative officials have underestimated the use of signals to discuss the attack, said confidential information was not shared in chat, although the exchange includes information about the weapons system used and the strike time.