The text messages sent by senior US government officials in a group chat concerning a military strike on the Houthi rebels in Yemen will be preserved, after a judge ordered the administration to keep them until at least 10 April.
District Judge James Boasberg on Thursday barred administration officials from destroying messages sent between 11 and 15 March over the encrypted messaging app Signal earlier this month.
The Atlantic magazine published the entire Signal chat on Wednesday, which came after its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, had been added to the text exchange.
The chat also included the US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth, national security adviser Michael Waltz, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
On the chat, Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop before the attacks began earlier this month.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria)They show that on the day of the attack, 15 March, Hegseth posted: “TEAM UPDATE:”.
The text beneath this began: “TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch.”
The message sent from Hegseth at 11.44am was 31 minutes before the first US warplanes launched, and two hours and one minute before a primary target, the Houthi “Target Terrorist”, was expected to be hit.
The images of the text chain posted by The Atlantic show that the messages were set to disappear in one week.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said no classified information was posted to the Signal chat.
Hegseth’s spokesman, Sean Parnell, said on Wednesday that “there were no classified materials or war plans shared. The secretary was merely updating the group on a plan that was underway.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Thursday that Boasberg should not be on the Signal case and other cases involving the Trump administration, describing him as among several federal judges “trying to obstruct Donald Trump’s agenda.”
“He cannot be objective. He’s made that crystal clear,” Bondi said on Fox News.
Meanwhile, suspected new US airstrikes hit sites across Yemen controlled by the Houthi rebels early on Friday, including neighbourhoods in the capital, Sanaa.
The extent of the damage and possible casualties was not immediately clear, though the Houthis claim at least seven people were injured.
Additional reporting from the Associated Press
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