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Healey revealed Afghan data breach details to MPs - but media gagged

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The Independent UK

Defence secretary revealed sensitive Afghan data breach details – but media still banned from reporting it

John Healey revealed details to MPs that have previously been kept secret – the media is fighting to be allowed to tell you what it is

The Independent UK

How were identities of thousands of Afghans leaked by UK military?

A superinjunction kept the data breach secret amid fears it could lead to a Taliban ‘hit list’.

Al Jazeera

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Political superinjunctions put governments beyond the law – these powers must never be used again

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Afghan leak scandal reveals how easy it is for governments to conceal terrible blunders for so long. The law must be changed so gagging orders cannot be secretly abused

The Independent UK

The spreadsheet, the superinjunction and the relocation scheme: Afghan data leak

One email in February 2022 set off a chain of events that affected the lives of thousands of Afghans, but few knew about it until this week

The Guardian - UK

Commons at pompous worst as Afghan data breach proves too much bother for Badenoch

No one had anything to say about a cover-up kept secret from parliament, the public and the people whose data was leaked

The Guardian - UK

Healey admits most people caught up in MoD data leak not eligible for UK asylum

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The Independent UK

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'Serious Questions' Over UK Secret Afghan Relocations: PM

Ministers in the UK's last Conservative government have "serious questions to answer" over a secret resettlement plan for thousands of Afghans after a data breach endangered their lives, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday.

International Business Times

How an email error sparked a secret scramble to bring Afghans to Britain

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021

The Independent UK

Healey: ‘No justification for most names in Afghan data leak to claim asylum in Britain’

John Healey has said there is “no justification” for most of the names in Afghan data leak to claim asylum, stating that the majority of individuals had no connection to Britain’s armed forces.

The Independent UK

Air Marshall Harv Smyth named as new head of the Royal Air Force

Air Marshal Smyth’s appointment follows a series of promotions to command positions since becoming an Air Commodore in 2015.

The Independent UK

No automatic right to resettlement for Afghans in data leak, says Healey

Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunction

The Guardian - UK

Healey: Accountability starts now over Afghan data leak and injunction

Thousands of people have been relocated to the UK as part of a secret scheme set up after data on Afghans who supported British forces was leaked.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer says Tory ministers have 'questions' to answer on data leak and secret route to UK for Afghans

At Prime Minister’s Questions, he sought to blame the previous Government for the data blunder which was kept quiet with a super injunction

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

UK politics live: Suella Braverman apologises for Tory government ‘failures’ over Afghan data breach

Email blunder triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

Evening Standard

OPINION - Afghan data breach is a shameful blight on our country - and a symptom of broader systemic failures

The government data breach of about 18,900 Afghans who had worked for Britain and British interests, and the attempts to conceal much of the detail under a legal superinjunction, are bewildering, convoluted and shameful. In all, the lives of some 80,000 Afghans and their families may have been put at…

Evening Standard

'No apology': Ben Wallace denies cover-up over Afghans data leak that 'put thousands in peril'

Ex-Tory defence secretary says the decision to apply for the gagging order was ‘not, as some are childishly trying to claim, a cover-up’

The Independent UK

Ben Wallace takes ‘complete responsibility’ for Afghan leak — but refuses to apologise for superinjunction

Sir Ben was defence secretary when a spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghans was released ‘in error’ in February 2022

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Evening Standard

Former defence secretary makes ‘no apology’ for Afghan injunction

Thousands of people are being relocated to the UK as part of a secret £850 million scheme set up in the wake of the breach.

The Independent UK

MoD official responsible for catastrophic Afghan data breach that cost billions still works for government

Email blunder potentially put up to 100,000 people at risk and triggered the evacuation of thousands of Afghans who were brought to the UK under a secret resettlement scheme

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret scheme after data leak

Conservative government used superinjuction to hide error that put Afghans at risk and led to £2bn mitigation scheme

The Guardian - UK

What we know about the secret Afghan relocation scheme

Accidental data breach that put Afghans at risk and led to covert resettlement scheme was subject to superinjuction

The Guardian - UK

John Healey and MPs bask in nauseating non-mea culpas over secret Afghan relocation scheme

Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response Route

International Business Times

Thousands Of Afghans Win UK Asylum After Huge Data Breach

Thousands of Afghans who worked with the UK and their families were brought to Britain in a secret programme after a 2022 data breach put their lives at risk, the British government revealed on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Defence Secretary offers ‘sincere apology’ for leak of Afghans’ personal data

Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge also apologised on behalf of the former Conservative government, who were in power when the leak occurred.

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