Sen. Schiff Asks National Archives To Investigate Trump Admin's Group Chats

Source: HuffPost

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Monday asked the National Archives and Records Administration to investigate the Trump administration for using self-deleting third-party messaging apps to conduct government business, likely in violation of records preservation laws.

The action follows multiple damning reports about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal, a commercial messaging app, to share highly sensitive information about an upcoming military attack on Yemen with his wife and “about a dozen” others.

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It’s the second such fiasco in under a month, leading Schiff to believe Signal is being used widely throughout the Trump administration ― and not just at the Defense Department.

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“It is imperative that NARA contact each federal agency with personnel involved in the Signal conversations to ensure that all records have been preserved,” Schiff wrote in his letter Monday.



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