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Sir Mel Stride defends a super injunction obtained by former defence secretary Ben Wallace to block the reporting a data leak relating to Afghan nationals who supported British forces during the Afghanistan War. The shadow chancellor says people could have been murdered and tortured had the Taliban got hold of the information. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think this was a very dangerous situation that occurred in February 2022 when a large
00:05amount of information relating to those Afghans who had helped us when we were in Afghanistan
00:11was leaked and the purpose of the injunction was to make the effect of that leak to keep
00:18that private rather than going out into the public domain. I think the fear would clearly
00:21have been that had the Taliban been alerted to this data, have got their hands on it,
00:26then we could have seen the murder and torture of many, many thousands of people potentially.
00:32So I think it was right that action was taken.
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