This was the question I wanted answered as soon as the article quoted specific texts. It's possible that these things weren't monitored, but were disclosed as

This was the question I wanted answered as soon as the article quoted specific texts. It's possible that these things weren't monitored, but were disclosed as part of the suit. Even so, I'm a bit surprised that an exchange like this was retained at all, rather than run through an encrypted texting app and the history regularly deleted. It's one of those stories where the existence of the records is at least as surprising as their contents.