Top US Officials Sued Over Signal Chat

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other top officials have been sued over their recently disclosed chat on a messaging platform called Signal. A watchdog group, American Oversight, sued the officials on March 25. Signal is not authorized to preserve federal records, and at least one or more messages sent in the recent chat were deleted, violating the Federal Records Act, the group said in their complaint. It was filed in federal court in Washington. American Oversight earlier this year submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to agencies headed by the defendants, including the Pentagon, seeking Signal records. But because the messages are not forwarded to official email accounts, American Oversight and other requesters are barred from obtaining the records, the suit also states....