Anti-Trump Judge Boasberg Assigned To Lefty Lawfare Group’s ‘SignalGate’ Suit
The activist federal judge who tried to thwart the Trump administration’s deportation flights to El Salvador earlier this month has been assigned to a left-wing lawfare group’s lawsuit related to the “SignalGate” nontroversy.
Embattled U.S. District Judge James Boasberg will handle the lawfare case alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump officials violated record retention laws.
Specifically, the lawsuit alleges that the officials’ use of an encrypted app that allows messages about government business to be erased is a violation of the Federal Records Act.
But as CIA Director John Ratcliffe explained in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday, the use of Signal among intelligence officials is permissible, routine, and precedes the current administration.
Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was somehow included in a Signal group chat discussing plans about a forthcoming attack on Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg publicized the chat in the Atlantic on Monday, withholding details purportedly over national security concerns.
After multiple Trump officials denied that any “classified materials” or “war plans” were discussed, the Atlantic on Wednesday published the entire group chat, showing that Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth had posted the “exact times American aircraft were taking off for Yemen” 31 minutes before the first warplanes launched.