{"id":72902,"date":"2025-07-16T02:11:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/15\/john-healey-and-mps-bask-in-nauseating-non-mea-culpas-over-secret-afghan-relocation-scheme"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:11:40","slug":"john-healey-and-mps-bask-in-nauseating-non-mea-culpas-over-secret-afghan-relocation-scheme-john-crace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72902","title":{"rendered":"John Healey and MPs bask in nauseating non-mea culpas over secret Afghan relocation scheme | John Crace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and \u00a3800m Afghanistan Response Route<\/p>\n<p>I suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/aug\/22\/dominic-raab-persuaded-pm-he-could-stay-on-holiday-in-afghanistan-crisis\">Dominic Raab, had moaned about the \u201csea being closed\u201d while on holiday in Crete<\/a>. The fate of thousands of Afghans who had helped the UK and whose lives were in danger as the Taliban homed in on Kabul came a distant second. For Psycho Dom, it was a simple matter of priorities.<\/p>\n<p>So no wonder a government official and\/or a soldier had been less than diligent with the names of Afghans at risk. Following by example. Which one of us hasn\u2019t accidentally emailed an entire spreadsheet of more than 18,000 endangered people to someone who might pass on their names to the Taliban? Such an easy mistake to make. Why bother to check a confidential file when you can just press send and go and grab yourself a coffee?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/15\/john-healey-and-mps-bask-in-nauseating-non-mea-culpas-over-secret-afghan-relocation-scheme\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and \u00a3800m Afghanistan Response RouteI suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the \u201csea being closed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4850,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,950,319,3367,938,2290,4,61,3365,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-dominic-raab","category-foreign-policy","category-grant-shapps","category-military","category-ministry-of-defence","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-superinjunctions","category-taliban"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4850"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72903,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72902\/revisions\/72903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}