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Defence Secretary 'Unable to Say' if Anyone Killed After Afghan Data Breach
UNITED KINGDOM, JUL 16 – The UK government secretly relocated over 18,500 Afghans at risk after a 2022 data breach exposed their identities, with the scheme costing around £400 million so far, officials said.
- Matt Vickers stated that the data breach created 'real consequences' for British taxpayers and those impacted.
- Defence Secretary John Healey acknowledged a serious departmental error in allowing sensitive information, including names of British officials, to be exposed, and offered a sincere apology on behalf of the British government.
- It was revealed that the identities of 100 British officials were compromised in addition to nearly 19,000 Afghans in the leak.
- The Liberal Democrats accused Defence Secretary Healey of misleading MPs about the risks to serving members of the armed forces, which was contradicted by new information revealed after a court order was lifted.
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The Afghan cover-up will haunt the UK
Few have fully grasped the enormous political implications of the Afghan Response Route (ARR) cover-up. This week’s crisis is going to metastasise continuously until it eats away at whatever political legitimacy remains of the decaying UK state. Who knew what? When did they find out? Why didn’t they speak out? These are questions that will undercut the credibility of many of Britain’s political leaders, not to mention the deep state’s countless …
MPs and journalists clash over secrecy in Afghan data breach fallout
Former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says he didn’t want the 2022 Afghan resettlement data leak to be covered up by a superinjunction. But new claims posted on Bluesky by journalist Lewis Goodall suggest the government actively supported and repeatedly upheld the court-imposed gag, raising questions about transparency and accountability at the heart of Whitehall.
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