ABOUT KASH PATEL’S STATEMENT REGARDING  INVESTIGATING MINNESOTA SIGNAL CHAT GROUPS
Kash Patel recently stated that they are investigating Minnesota Signal chat groups for discussing obstruction of ICE activities. Here’s what you need to know:
1. No, the government cannot access encrypted chats, or force encrypted chat providers such as Signal to decrypt the chats. That is well-established in decades of case law as well as being protected by the first amendment. BUT
2. If someone *in* one of those chats gives the government access to transcripts of those chats,  that is different. Remember Pete Hegseth and Signalgate? It’s the same thing here. Now I don’t know for certain, but there are claims that people in the far right joined those chats, which would give the government access to those transcripts if those individuals shared them with the government. Which leads me to…
3. Be very careful who you let into your chats, and always assume there is some way the government will eventually see what you are saying. 
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