A government watchdog group known for targeting Republican interests has sued the Trump administration for allegedly discussing war plans on an open-source instant-messaging app.

American Oversight, which calls itself nonpartisan but has aimed all of its investigations and litigations at the GOP, filed suit in a D.C. federal court against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Axios reported.

The lawsuit alleges the chat on the unclassified commercial app that mistakenly included The Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg violated federal records laws.

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