Judge James Boasberg held a hearing on Thursday afternoon in the lawsuit filed against Trump Administration officials for their use of the double-encrypted app Signal.
As previously reported, the left-wing watchdog group American Oversight filed a lawsuit against John Ratcliffe, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, and others, claiming their use of the Signal app violates the Presidential Records Act.
American Oversight boasts about its ‘activist litigation’ targeting Republican interests, especially the Trump Administration.
Now they’re suing Trump officials for using Signal to communicate about ‘military actions.’
According to Jeffrey Goldberg, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Vice President JD Vance were in a Signal group called “Houthi PC small group,” discussing plans to strike terrorists in Yemen.
Rather than immediately exiting the chat group, Goldberg took screenshots and published a report in The Atlantic.
Judge Boasberg began the hearing on Thursday by insisting he was randomly assigned to the Signal case.
Boasberg ordered the agencies who participated in the group chat with Jeffrey Goldberg to preserve their Signal messages between March 11-15.
UPDATE: Judge Boasberg has ordered the agencies who participated in the Signalgate chat to preserve all Signal messages between March 11-15 and to provide an update to the court about efforts to do so.
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 27, 2025
