For this specific chat, what law were they breaking?
(I'm not defending the Trump administration's law-keeping in general. I'm asking about this specific set of communications.)
(I'm not defending the Trump administration's law-keeping in general. I'm asking about this specific set of communications.)
The Vice President of the United States cannot use Signal "disappearing messages" to correspond with anyone for any purpose.
What you say is true. But if a technique makes it so that 1) they don't preserve a record for the future, and 2) they do leak (or risk leaking) information that can kill service people, I personally care more about #2.
(Ironic that, in trying to not leak to future investigators/prosecutors, they increased the risk of leaking to foreign adversaries. Shows which threat they're focused on.)