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BREAKING: This is an absolutely extraordinary story from @larisamlbrown The British military is responsible for a data leak that put up to 100,000 Afghans at risk of death - and successive governments have spent years fighting to keep it secret using an unprecedented superinjunction The data leak resulted in a secret operation that will see ***23,900*** Afghans flown to the UK in the biggest covert evacuation operation in peacetime. Most of them are here already A total of £7bn of taxpayers' money had been earmarked to handle the fallout UK government officials and troops were left exposed when in February 2022 a soldier inadvertently sent a list of tens of thousands of names to Afghans as he tried to help verify applications for sanctuary in Britain. The database of 33,000 records seen by The Times was then passed on and one of the individuals who received it threatened to publish the dataset on Facebook. There were fears it would give the Taliban what amounted to a 'kill list' A highly secretive mission, codenamed Operation Rubific, was launched to shut down the leak and stop the details of the breach becoming public. The superinjunction — the first to be deployed by the government and the longest ever — which prevented anyone revealing even the existence of such an order, was put in place in September 2023 It has now been lifted after a two-year legal battle spearheaded by The Times Yet at the 11th hour, The Times and other media organisations were hit with a new interim injunction that blocked the publication of sensitive information about what exactly was on the database, on the grounds of confidentiality and national security. The government argued the leaked list still posed a potential risk to Afghans As a result of the superinjunction there has been no scrutiny of the leak, or subsequent policy decisions, by either parliament or the public for nearly two years. In one hearing, Mr Justice Chamberlain said it represented a “wholly novel use” of superinjunctions and there had been no reported example of one continuing for so long thetimes.co.uk/uk/defence/ar…