Judge Orders Trump Admin To Preserve Signal Chats

The Associated Press reports:

A federal judge on Thursday said he will order the Trump administration to preserve records of a text message chat in which senior national security officials discussed sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen’s Houthis.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said during a hearing that he’ll issue a temporary restraining order barring administration officials from destroying messages sent over the encrypted messaging app Signal.

A nonprofit watchdog, American Oversight, requested the order. A government attorney said the administration already was taking steps to collect and save the messages.

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BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg orders agencies of participants in now-famous Signal chat about Yemen attacks to preserve all Signal records from March 11 to 15. Acts in suit brought

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