The directive from Judge James Boasberg comes after bombshell reporting from The Atlantic this week in which the magazine’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently added to the chat that discussed strike plans targeting the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, among others, were present in the exchange hosted on the encrypted messaging app.
Signal screenshots published by The Atlantic show National Security Advisor Mike Waltz added Goldberg. Waltz initially set messages to auto-delete after one week and later set them to delete after four weeks. The initial lawsuit was filed by American Oversight, a left-leaning advocacy group, arguing the Signal chat violates the Federal Records Act because the exchange between officials from March 11 to 15 about the strikes involved agency decision-making that requires preservation.
“As agreed by the parties in today’s … hearing, the Court ORDERS that: 1) Defendants shall promptly make best efforts to preserve all Signal communications from March 11-15, 2025; 2) By March 31, 2025, Defendants shall file a Status Report with declarations setting forth the steps that they have taken to implement such preservation; and 3) This Order shall expire on April 10, 2025, in the event that Defendants’ measures are satisfactory to the Court,” a court readout said.
The magazine published the conversation in two stories, initially withholding ..
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