The judge promises the government to protect signal messages about military strike: NPR

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, a Federal Judge ordered the Trump administration to protect the records of a short message conversation, where senior national security officials discussed the sensitive details of a military strike plans against Yemen’s Houthis.

US regional judge James Boasberg prevented the administrative officials from destroying messages sent over the encrypted messaging application signal at the beginning of this month.

A non -profit guard asked for American supervision. A government lawyer said that the administration has already taken steps to collect and save messages.

On Wednesday, the Atlantic published the entire signal conversation. Chief editor Jeffrey Goldberg, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’ı added to a discussion.

In the conversation, Hegseth made the fighter aircraft launches the final timing, and when Yemen’s attacks on Houthis will fall in the beginning of this month, when the bombs will fall. When a “strike window” was opened, hegseth appeared when a “target terrorist” was found and weapons and planes were used.

The images of the text chain published by Atlantic show that messages will be lost within a week.

The American supervision filed a lawsuit this week to ensure that the records are kept in accordance with the Federal Registration Law. The group suspects that management officials use a signal to routinely communicate.

“The defendants use a commercial application that has not been classified even for life and death issues such as a military operation planning, such as a military operation planning, leads to the inevitable interest that the defendants should use a signal to carry out other official government affairs.”

Boasberg limited his order with messages sent between 11 March and 15 March.

“We are still identifying the records of the agencies,” Amber Richer, the lawyer of the Ministry of Justice, said. He said.

Im I am happy to find a solution, the judge said later. He instructed the government to make an update on Monday. Boasberg, “the defendants’ measures are satisfactory for the court” decision will end on April 10, he said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt did not say that no secret information was published in the signal conversation. “Hegsseth’s spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement on Wednesday,” He said he had no classified materials or war plans. The secretary was just updating the group on an ongoing plan. “

GABBARD and CIA Director John Ratcliffe said that hegseth was responsible for determining whether the information was classified on Tuesday to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

American supervisory lawyers argued that even if the public has automatically wear messages from private phones of the authorities, it has the right to access government records.

“This is not a systematic effort to avoid registration rules in the federal government.” “There is no legitimate reason for this behavior that deprives the public and the congress from the ability of the government to see the actions of the government.”

The Washington Regional Court Chief Judge Boasberg contradicts the administration through a separate lawsuit, which includes flights to Venezuela immigrants to El Salvador within the scope of the 18th century war law. He temporarily blocked the flights and ordered to return at least two aircraft carrying immigrants, but this did not. The judge promised to determine whether the administration ignores the return order.

Boasberg, who was nominated by democratic President Barack Obama, said at the hearing of Thursday, because the agencies should not harm the government because he was working to protect the signal messages.