A public interest law firm has filed a federal lawsuit against the participants in a Signal chat group discussion last month that included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other White House officials regarding an imminent airstrike on Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.

The lawsuit filed by the National Security Counselors requests that the participants turn over all conversations they had on the encrypted app over the past three months, The Hill reported Friday.

Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are named in the suit, which is seeking the totality of messages in their accounts “regardless of sender or recipient.”

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