In every instance where I've been privvy to government partnerships, the version of the solutions we deployed were modified to meet regulatory standards.
> The practice began during President Joe Biden’s administration and had the official approval of CIA records management officials, Ratcliffe said, as long as “any decisions that are made are also recorded through formal channels.”
There is a tension in the interpretation of text messaging. Is it a written record like an email, which is stored and archived? Or is it more like voice conversation; ephemeral and generally not recorded or archived?
For a long time the default behavior of messaging apps was to just hold onto all messages indefinitely. This led a lot of folks in law enforcement to think of them as permanent written records.
The approach in the quote above treats them more like a voice conversation. Anything of significance should be written down in an official way, even if it originated over messaging.
>Anything of significance should be written down in an official way, even if it originated over messaging.
So in the group chat discussing code word material, who was responsible for making the written record? Perhaps that should have been one of the questions today?
Likewise, if it is true that they are using it on a regular basis at CIA HQ I can pretty much guaranty you that it is being used in a manner that is a substitute for email which would be required to be saved in entirety.