"All messages on the messaging platform Signal and any app that can interface with Signal or otherwise borrow its technology sent or received by U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan regarding government business . American Oversight requests that all images, videos, audio recordings, or other attachments regarding official government business shared via Signal, including any app that can interface with Signal or otherwise borrow its technology , be produced in response to this request."
"Remember: American Oversight was the organization that sued to preserve Pete Hegseth's Signal tweets, only to discover many of them were destroyed. As the NGO noted in a presser, though, Halligan is under additional legal mandate to preserve the texts she sent to Bower: DOJ records retention rules that will become key in the Vindictive Prosecution motions filed against her."
American Oversight filed a FOIA lawsuit seeking all Signal messages and any app-interfacing communications sent or received by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan concerning government business, including images, videos, audio, attachments, and full URLs. The request asks for records on the Simple processing track. Reports indicate Halligan used Signal to communicate with a reporter about the prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James, allegedly set messages to auto-delete after eight hours, and later retroactively claimed the exchanges were off the record. DOJ records retention rules may require preservation of those texts and could factor into Vindictive Prosecution motions.
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