[guest post by Dana]

Yep, this is what a whole lot of us thought might happen when we learned that administration officials used the Signal app to discuss classified information.

Via Kyle Cheney:

CIA confirms that when it scanned Director Ratcliffe’s phone for Signalgate messages, they were gone.

From the Supplemental Declaration of the CIA’s chief data officer:

. . .because the screenshot does not show substantive messages from the Signal chat; rather, it captures the name of the chat: “Houthi PC small group,” and reflects administrative notifications from 26 March and 28 March relating to changes in participants’ administrative settings in the group chat, such as profile names and message settings.

—Dana