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Far-Left Watchdog Group Sues Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Ratcliffe and Others, Claiming Their Use of Signal App is Violation of Federal Records Act
Gateway Pundit ^ | 3/25/25 | Christina Laila

Posted on 03/25/2025 6:42:14 PM PDT by hardspunned

Left-wing watchdog group American Oversight filed a lawsuit against John Ratcliffe, Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and others, claiming their use of the double encrypted app Signal violates the Presidential Records Act.

American Oversight boasts about its ‘activist litigation’ targeting Republican interests, especially the Trump Administration.

Now they’re suing Trump officials for using Signal to communicate about ‘military actions.’

It was reported on Monday that Jeffrey Goldberg, the anti-Trump editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed he was accidentally added to a secure Signal group chat where top Trump administration officials discussed sensitive military operations against Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: 20250315; americanbridge; americanoversight; ao; crew; davidbrock; goldberg; harassment; houthihysteria; jeffreygoldberg; lawfare; media; melaniesloan; nostanding; sarahstudley
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Ready and Action! On to Act II.

More first term reruns.

1 posted on 03/25/2025 6:42:14 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: hardspunned

But nobody has standing. We learned that back in 2020.


2 posted on 03/25/2025 6:44:13 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Only for Republican officers. Among Democrats, even janitors have standing.


3 posted on 03/25/2025 6:45:55 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: Larry Lucido

Exactly. These morons have no standing.


4 posted on 03/25/2025 6:46:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Bureaucratic District "Judges" are the greatest threat to America and Americans.)
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To: hardspunned

Ha, ha. The left is staggering around trying to figure out and exploit an issue big enough to slow down or cripple the Trump administration. Another swing and miss.

Issue will be forgotten in a week.


5 posted on 03/25/2025 6:47:38 PM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: hardspunned

Tell it to Hillary and Obama, et al.


6 posted on 03/25/2025 6:48:13 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: hardspunned

Apparently a private server isn’t.


7 posted on 03/25/2025 6:51:05 PM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: hardspunned

If every conversation has to be put into a record that can be kept and accessed, then somebody needs to sue for access to the Presidential records whereby Biden was told about each binding thing he signed and his specific approval was given for each and every auto pen signature on record.

How’s them peaches, leftists?


8 posted on 03/25/2025 6:52:10 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: Fledermaus

And the fired govt workers who had plotted to use communications other than their official means so they could secretly plot their treason - er, resistance.


9 posted on 03/25/2025 6:54:51 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: hardspunned; All
They should respond accordingly as Musk did a few weeks ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/18734z1/elon_musk_tells_advertisers_go_fuck_yourself_live/

10 posted on 03/25/2025 6:58:13 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: hardspunned

OK, the watch group sues and are successful. What is the remedy? A sternly worded letter from a Hawaii judge? Fani Willis goes for an indictment?


11 posted on 03/25/2025 7:15:57 PM PDT by JParris
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Now they’re suing Trump officials

So, the officials should get friendly judges to block the suits, applicable all across the country. Court ordered shutdown. Like the Dems keep doing to Trump and the DOGE people.

See you "watchdogs" in appeals court in maybe 7-8 months.

12 posted on 03/25/2025 7:22:08 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: hardspunned

No standing. If Texas and 17 other states had no standing to challenge a stolen federal election, they have no standing either.


13 posted on 03/25/2025 7:22:41 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: hardspunned

The SIGNAL pipeline encryption, is not the vulnerability.

Access to the pipeline, is.


14 posted on 03/25/2025 7:27:59 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: nwrep

Ha.

Once thriller author Robert Ludlum (the Bourne books and movies) was approached by a man from the British government who said “You know, you have violated the British Official Secrets Act.” He was asked to explain himself in private.

Ludlum was able to convince them his clever plot was a logical outcome of totally fictional ideas he had made up.
Elements coming true in real life were not his fault.

“The Official Secrets Acts (OSAs) in the UK, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, aimed to protect state secrets and prevent espionage, with key Acts being the 1911, 1920, 1939, and 1989 versions. The 1989 Act, in particular, replaced a “catch-all” section and focused on specific categories of information, including security, intelligence, and defense.”


15 posted on 03/25/2025 7:28:21 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: DesertRhino

Depends on the judge. I’ve seen at least 10 in the last couple of weeks who’d absolutely proceed. You don’t think they’d judge shop, do you?


16 posted on 03/25/2025 7:31:28 PM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: Fedora

American Oversight ping on the Goldberg -The Atlantic - Houthihysteria channel.


17 posted on 03/25/2025 7:49:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: hardspunned
Depends on the judge

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well, if past is prologue,

they will import a ms13 from Venezuela and make him a district judge to take the action they deem legal

18 posted on 03/25/2025 8:01:35 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: hardspunned
They gonna' sue the Biden Administration too?

Biden Era Guidance Encouraged Use of Signal App by Highly Targeted Government Officials Best Practice

19 posted on 03/25/2025 8:09:36 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: piasa

American Oversight: brainchild of Hillary’s henchman David Brock, populated by former Clinton and Obama staffers, led by CREW’s Melanie Sloan and Brock’s associate Sarah Studley of American Bridge 21st Century, ran cover for Hillary during Uranium One investigation, targeted Brett Kavanaugh, assisted vote fraudster Robin Vos, etc.


20 posted on 03/25/2025 8:11:32 PM PDT by Fedora
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