Kill list and cover-up: how I took on the government and won

For years, the British government used a court superinjunction to conceal a data leak that could have handed the Taliban a “kill list” of innocent civilians. Times defence editor Larisa Brown describes her fight to uncover the truth.

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Guest: Larisa Brown, Defence Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Edward Drummond.

Read more:

• I investigated the Afghan data leak. Ministers were gambling with death
• Revealed: Leak that risked lives of 100,000 Afghans — and £7bn cover-up
• Inside Operation Rubific: ‘kill list’, secrecy and a rescue mission

Further listening: 'The Taliban will kill me': The interpreter trying to flee Kabul

Clips: Times Radio, LBC, Parliament.

Photo: Getty Images.

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