The US Department of Finance is Initially alone In providing the court a time line of messages that it can regain. Finance Minister Scott Bessent received a conservation memorandum on March 26, his general lawyer said, as well as advice related to his basic obligations to preserve the records. As a result, “the image was taken from the phone of Minister Bessent and Mr. (Daniel) Katz,” the Chief of Staff of Bessent. Messages start at 1:48 pm EST on March 15, 2025.
“The Atlantic article talks about a conversation from 11 to 15, Anthony Anthony said, many things disappeared from a single defendant to give us clear and specific information about what they can save.
The Ministry of Defense told the court last month that their lawyers were “in the process of” complying with the conservation rules of the agency and communication group of Minister Hegseth. Request transition Signal messages to the official DOD account. Pressed by the court for more details last week, DOD Second said That a Hegseth device search was conducted “around March 27”, adding that the screenshot of the “current signal application notifications” were preserved.
The American supervisor has called for the Court to search for a bigger specific, debate On April 4 That “vague and incomplete assertions” in the initial statements of the Government only have new doubts about its “purposeful efforts” to protect conversations. In the context of the new report, the group's argument and reaction team seemed to be “incomplete”. Politico reported two days ago 20 private signal chat groups It was started by Waltz's group with a series of cabinet officials.
It seems that it is very likely that the individuals who are defendants in our lawsuit may be related to a number of other conversations and we have this problem on a much wider basis, according to Mr. Anthony Anthony.
The Ministry of Justice, meanwhile, opposed the court's relevance, said that their efforts on behalf of a monitoring group were legally confused and the question whether any law was broken in any case. Members of the public, it argued, without “the right to be enforced when it comes to challenging the destruction of specific government records. A court's order is unnecessary, the department said, because the Government has taken steps to do what is required. A part of the conversation has been committed to a federal record storage system, it says at least one agency.
Among other new details, the revelations on Monday have provided a series of days for the efforts to preserve many agencies, including the day that Hegseth's phone has finally been searched.
Screenshots of Marco Rubio's phone conversations are also taken On March 27The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The National Intelligence Director Office said its screenshot was taken the next day, On March 28. CIA said it took screenshots of the conversation On March 31; However, it also clarifies one of its previous statements to the court, revealing that this image shows mainly the name of the chat group and some members and its installation but not any of its actual messages.
The American supervision has previewed a lawsuit to amend its initial complaint during the hearing last week, with the plan to encourage the Court to expand its scope of assessment to include the wide use of signals currently reported by leading officials across the country.
This attack on the transparency of the government threatened the foundation of our democracy, Mr. Chukwu said. And we are committed to using all the legal tools available to expose the truth and keep those responsible.