The judge orders Trump Administration to preserve the signal texts on Houti attack News Donald Trump

U.S. Judge James Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order against deleting any messages in controversial chat.

The Federal Judge announced that he would order the United States government to preserve messages from the signal conversation where the best officials were discussed Bomb plans Houti goals in Yemen.

That chat has since become an object a National controversyThey derive from accidental involvement of journalists from the Atlantic magazine in the discussion, which revealed sensitive military information.

On Thursday James Boasberg, he ruled that the administration of the President Donald Trump must take measures to keep records of a complete conversation between 11. and 15. March, when the journalist had access to the conversation.

The judge’s order arises from concerns that messages could be deleted, violating the Federal Record Law.

The non-profit guard called American supervision has submitted a temporary restriction order to prevent the deletion of the original messages, which are ultimately published this week in the Atlantic.

He claimed that messages should be released. It is also noted that Atlantic has reported that signal messages were placed on automatic deletion – some within a week within four weeks.

“This is nothing less than a systematic effort to avoid rules for record retention in the Federal Government,” American Supervision Lawyers were written in the submission of the court. “There is no legitimate reason for that behavior, which take the public and congress the ability to see the actions of the Government.”

The non-profit based on its argument at the Federal Records from 1950. year, which creates a draft for government transparency.

This law creates standards for the preservation and release of government documents, and is also updated to include electronic documents.

But American supervision claimed that Trump administration can use a signal – an application to exchange messages with encryption by the end – to avoid complying with the law.

The use of “defendants who are not classified commercial applications even for such living and deaths lead to the inevitable conclusion that the accused must take advantage of the signal for the performance of other officials,” said its judicial government.

The administration trump representative assured Judge Boasberg that measures were already established to collect and preserve any remaining messages.

Signal use for top changes Monday has come to light when atlantic published The first in a series of articles on the subject from the main editor of Jeffrey Goldberg.

The journalist explained that he received a call from someone to make himself a national security counselor Mike Waltz to join the conversation on the application.

After accepting the call, Goldberg found himself among some of the highest US officials: which appear in the despop of President JD Vance, the Secretary Marco Rubio and the Defense of the Pete Hegset participated in Chat.

Goldberg said that he realized that the conversation was authentic – not an elaborate set – when they were 15. March bombed in a real life conversation in real life.

“I’ve never seen being sent so similar,” Goldberg wrote in his initial article. “It is not uncommon for national-security officials to communicate on the signal. But the application is used primarily for meeting planning and other logistics things – not for detailed and very confidential discussions on good military actions.”

Trump Administration responded to the article refusal All confidential information was published in Chat.

But Goldberg responded to another article that shares multiple messages that revealed time deadlines for a bombing campaign, as well as when the F-18 planes were launched that transport missiles.

“Look, look, it’s all a witch hunt,” Trump told on the event on Wednesday. He rejected calls for rejection of waltz and hegset or calls for an apology. He also blamed the signal, saying that the app “could be defective.”

Temporary Executive Director of American Surveillance, Chioma Chukwu praised the decision of the Judge Boasberg to stop any destruction of messages on Thursday.

“We are grateful to the decision of the Judge Bench to stop the further destruction of these critical records. The public is entitled to the decisions about the war and national security – and responsibility does not only disappear,” said the message in the statement. Chukwu said in the statement.