Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who also has the initials ‘J. G.’

No, every single member of that chat should have pointed out that the communication violates multiple clear, long existing federal laws about how communications about federal government business is to be conducted, especially about military operations, and refused to communicate via signal instead of approved channels.

All of them violated multiple laws.

Trying to make it seem that they’re not actively breaking all the laws around record keeping for government business.

There’s no excuse for this.

The judiciary could shut this down pretty quick by referring DOJ lawyers who attempt to enforce this inappropriately for disbarment.