British detectiveSpecial forces soldiers and senior military personnel were put in risk by potentially horrific Afghan data leaks among thousands, Independent Understands
Violation, made by one Ministry of Defence Details of official, exposed in February 2022 Afghan Demanding to escape to Britain due to links claimed to British forces.
Vishal Blunder noticed that 16,000 Afghans were influenced by data violations extracted to Britain, with some 8,000 still coming, and inspired an unprecedented two -year superinance to prevent publication of any details.
The leak also revealed more than 100 names of the British government personnel. Defense sources say that these included MI6 spy, SAS members, MPs, government ministers and other senior military figures.
Secretary of Defense John Hele On Tuesday, MPs told that “in a small number of cases, the names of the members of Parliament were noted as supporting the application to senior military officers and government officials”.
In a public court hearing before a High Court judge on Thursday, Jude Bunting Casey said, “It was surprising. [media] The defendant’s Secretary of State was able to report the details that we were not ”.
He said: “Now we can report those details.”
For the government, Catherine McGahe Casey said that the Defense Secretary was giving “immediate views” for the ongoing gagging order on the press, which lives in place.
Further revelations come after the Intelligence and Security Committee, an influential group of MPs, demanding to answer why they were not informed about the Afghan data leaks.
The chairman of the committee, Lord Beamish PC, said that MPs wanted to be provided with intelligence assessment, on which the Superintendent rested for so long. He wanted him to send “immediately” to the committee.
And in a statement in response to Afghan Data Breech, former armed forces James HeP said that it was “intestinal to find out that someone in the mod was so terriblely spoiled”, but the person said “In Afghanistan we were incredibly dedicated to those people”.
He also said that the decision of the department on sanctuary applications from former Afghan particular forces, known as triples, was “flawless”. He said he “pushed and pushed with a mod for clarification in response What was said in the press, By Parliament and campaigners ”.
He said, “I publicly said that very senior officials and the army had informed me. It was very disappointing which proved to be wrong.”
In a joint investigation in November 2023, Independent It was revealed that the Triple members suffered death or torture by the Taliban and were wrongly dismissed for help despite training and fighting shoulder to shoulder with the British Army.
Our reporting revealed that the Afghan commandos were paid by the British, at that time something was done by the government.
The Dan Jarvis MP said he knew that the triples were paid directly by the UK forces, Mr. HePP said in January 2024 that “there was a difference in opinion between” advice from the authorities and advice to the honorable gentleman “.
Labor’s Armed Forces Minister Luke Pollard admitted in the last October that “officials have now confirmed that there is proof of payment from the UK government”.