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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Judge orders participants in Signal chat group blunder to preserve all messages

A woman with curled black hair with a white-blonde streak running through it sits next to a man with short salt-and-pepper hair at a hearing
Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe, pictured at a House committee hearing on Wednesday, are among the chat participants ordered to preserve their messages. Photograph: Shawn Thew/EPA

A federal judge on Thursday ordered that the Trump administration preserve all messages exchanged in the now-infamous Signal group chat in which officials conducted a high-level military operation on the unclassified commercial app and inadvertently included a journalist.

The temporary restraining order from James Boasberg, the chief US district judge in Washington, compelled defense secretary Pete Hegseth, secretary of state Marco Rubio, treasury secretary Scott Bessent, CIA director John Ratcliffe and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to save their texts from 11 to 15 March.

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