A US public watchdog is now sueing for action to be taken. The people in the chat group included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, vario

A US public watchdog is now sueing for action to be taken. The people in the chat group included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, various other Trump administration officials and aides and notably Secretary of State Marco Rubio. As American Oversight lawyers pointed out in their lawsuit Tuesday, Rubio is also the acting archivist of the United States and, as such, “is aware of the violations” that allegedly occurred. The lawsuit, brought by the watchdog group American Oversight, requests that a federal judge formally declare that Hegseth and other officials on the chat violated their duty to uphold laws around the preservation of official communications. Those laws are outlined in the Federal Records Act and, according to lawyers for American Oversight, if agency heads refuse to recover or protect their communications, the national archivist should ask the attorney general to step in. ~ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-sued-over-signal-text-debacle_n_67e2f9b5e4b074f0c26efadc https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-hegseth-sued-over-signal... There are four areas of damage here at least: * Advance knowledge of US bombings and action was conveyed to a journalist (who didn't know if this was 'real' until the bombs he read about were dropped at the date, time, and locations he read about (and redacted from his reporting)) * Records of thes chats are not being preserved as required by US law for archives, transparency, etc. * Diplomatic damage via raw opinions of allies shared. * Reputational damage .. the USofA is now seen as having a meritless day drinking political hire as DoD head who is clueless about "OpSec" .. etc. Time will tell how this buttery Signals chat plays out .. it's certainly given many other countries more fuel to ridicule the USofA, it's hard to believe these clowns are our partners in global "intelligence".