Trump aides pledge in court to preserve Signal messages about Yemen attack

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Published 5:14 p.m. ET March 27, 2025


WASHINGTON – Officials from the Trump administration assured a judge Thursday they are preserving messages shared on the Signal app about an attack on Houthis in Yemen, despite the app's option to automatically delete those messages.

The nonprofit advocacy group American Oversight filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to preserve the messages among top national security officials from March 11 to 15 that were shared with a reporter because of the potential for their erasure.

But a Justice Department lawyer and officials from two departments told Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg they were already working to ensure the messages are preserved for the National Archives and Records Administration. “We are also working with the agencies to preserve whatever records they have," said Amber Richer, a Justice Department lawyer.

With the agreement of government officials, Boasberg ordered them to preserve the Signal chat record. He asked for an update about the preservation efforts Monday.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/27/trump-aides-preserve-signal-chat-houthis/82693224007/

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Every agency, including the Office of the White House, is supposed to have a Records Schedule.

[moniss]

1. There will be all kinds of

"I didn't know", "I don't recall", "I don't know what happened to them" etc. They're all figuring on playing the game their messiah Crumb The 1st has shown them and they count on any penalty for lying or non-compliance being set aside by him.

[yourout]

2. Every government official on that chat should have been fired the next day and

Charged.

[Karasu]

3. They need to commit to it BEYOND discussing this one specific attack. Nice try. And everyone in the chat still needs to

be fucking fired.

Not that either of those things are happening.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Exactly. The New Republic has already ensured this discussion is archived. It's all the other Signal chats

that need to be ferreted out. They ought to confiscate the phones that were used, so that they can be searched for what hasn't yet disappeared. You know the Republicans would do it if it were Democrats who had been caught fucking around on a commercial app.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Well if you belive them........

[Ford_Prefect]

5. This is such an obvious lie on their part. They cannot preserve what has already been erased.

[NotHardly]

6. F*cking liars