BONUS EPISODE: Exclusive - Defence secretary on the "catastrophic" Afghan leak episode artwork

EPISODE · Jul 15, 2025 · 25 MIN

BONUS EPISODE: Exclusive - Defence secretary on the "catastrophic" Afghan leak

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The government admitted today that the superinjunction which for two years prevented us from reporting on a “catastrophic” data breach which put the lives of 100,000 Afghans at potentially lethal risk by the Taliban was “constitutionally unprecedented”.The Defence secretary stood up in the Commons to issue an apology to those Afghans whose data had been leaked, and said that it had been “deeply uncomfortable” to have kept parliament - and the public - in the dark.On the day that the story finally became public, John Healey came in to speak exclusively to Lewis, the first journalist to be issued with a superinjunction by the MoD.You can listen to Lewis’s special episode on the story that the government spent two years from preventing us from telling here: https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/episodes/7DrsZBQ/

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