Today after 23 months of being gagged, the Daily Mail can reveal the eye-watering scheme to bring in thousands of Afghans - which came after a military blunder put 100,000 'at risk of death' from the Taliban . Secret hearings in the High Court have heard how Parliament has been deliberately kept oblivious - or even 'misled', as a judge was told. The covert airlift - codenamed Operation Rubific - was launched after the UK military catastrophically lost a database of Afghans who had applied for sanctuary in the UK in a scheme for those who had worked with British forces to flee the murderous Taliban. Instead of coming clean about all this, the Ministry of Defence mounted a cover-up and successfully hushed up the Daily Mail's exclusive data-breach story when we discovered it in August 2023. So far 18,500 Afghans whose data was lost have been flown to Britain or are on their way in taxpayer-funded jets. A total of 23,900 are earmarked for arrival. They are living in MOD homes or hotels until permanent homes are found.