Signal scandal escalates as Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials SUED over war plans chat: Live updates
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Signal scandal escalates as Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials SUED over war plans chat: Live updates

Signal scandal escalates as Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials SUED over war plans chat: Live updates

By KATELYN CARALLE SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER

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Donald Trump’s top officials at the center of a Signal chat leak scandal are now being sued.

On Monday, the editor in chief of The Atlantic revealed he was added to an unclassified group chat involving several of Trump’s most important cabinet members discussing Yemen war plans.

Now government watchdog group American Oversight filed a federal records lawsuit to ‘recover unlawfully deleted messages and prevent further destruction.’ 

The officials now embroiled in the lawsuit include Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The Federal Records Act requires that federal officials save any communications related to their government business, which are then preserved by the National Archives. 

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Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe to face House grilling amid fallout from Signal war chat

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director Kash Patel will testify before the House Intelligence Committee today.

It comes the day after the trio appeared by the Senate panel on Tuesday.

The timing of the public hearings meant to provide an update on the state of worldwide threats has turned into a display to grill Trump administration officials on the already-infamous Signal group chat discussing war plans.

Democrats berated Ratcliffe and Gabbard for their participation in discussing over the encrypted communications application plans to bomb Yemen.

Patel largely became a bystander in the Senate hearing.

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 25: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testifies during a Senate Committee on Intelligence hearing "to examine worldwide threats," in Washington, DC on March 25, 2025. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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‘Election fraud, you’ve heard the term,’ Trump said while signing the order, ‘ended, hopefully,’ he continued while he signed the paper with a black sharpie.

‘At least this will go a long way toward ending it,’ the president added, noting the administration is planning further actions regarding election integrity.

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