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Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Yemen attack plan messages

On Thursday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to preserve records of a Signal app text message chat among senior national security officials discussing sensitive details of plans for a U.S. military strike against Yemen's Houthis.
The order was prompted by concerns from American Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog, that the messages, set to disappear after a week, might be destroyed in violation of the Federal Records Act, leading them to file a lawsuit this week.
The Signal chat included sensitive information, such as the exact timings of warplane launches and bomb drops, potentially shared by Hegseth before attacks against Yemen's Houthis began earlier this month.
According to a court filing by American Oversight's attorneys, the use of a non-classified commercial application for planning a military operation leads to the inference that Signal was used for other official government business.
While the Trump administration and Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted that no classified information was shared and the Justice Department is likely to stay on the sidelines, Senators Jack Reed and Roger Wicker requested an investigation into the potential use of unclassified networks to discuss sensitive and classified information, and Sen. Mark Kelly asserted that the situation put pilots at risk due to sloppiness and carelessness.

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