Trump Cabinet Officials in Leaked Signal Chat Face Lawsuit
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Five members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet were accused in a lawsuit of violating US laws meant to safeguard government records by using the encrypted messaging platform Signal to communicate about official business.
The complaint filed late Tuesday in Washington federal court follows an explosive Atlantic article revealing that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added by mistake to a group Signal chat involving top US officials and White House advisers discussing imminent military action in Yemen.