Court Orders Trump Administration to Preserve Signal Messages

Friday, March 28, 2025

Following bombshell reporting that top Trump administration officials used the auto-deleting messaging app Signal to coordinate high-level, allegedly classified war operations, nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight filed a lawsuit against those officials for violations of the Federal Records Act and Administrative Procedure Act.

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NEW: On Tuesday, as the Signalgate scandal raged, DOGE employees were given a new "records retention policy" reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete. www.politico.com/news/2025/03 ... [image or embed]
-- Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) March 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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Won't happen.

#1 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-03-28 05:26 PM | Reply

This activist Judge may be jeopardizing the operational security of future top sekrit missions by requiring records retention on a non secure application.

#2 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-03-28 08:19 PM | Reply

Did felon 47 kill off any American soldiers today?

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-28 08:24 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It doesn't matter what the limp-wrist ordered... Just ask Hillary & Co. Wipe that ---- with a towel and be done with, and smash the devices with a hammer.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-03-28 09:28 PM | Reply

It doesn't matter what the limp-wrist ordered... Just ask Hillary & Co. Wipe that ---- with a towel and be done with, and smash the devices with a hammer.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds

ahaha....rumor is little ms fatso has offered her hammer to the DOD

....for a price of course....like maybe a pardon

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-29 10:42 PM | Reply

interesting.....if interesting is lying leftist BS

this american oversight thing blames "trump and allies" for

the destruction of information relating to usaid.

--wow....no lie is enough for the ----- faced left wingers.

#6 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-03-29 10:44 PM | Reply