The information to which he's referring was announced in the House, and there was a discussion on it in committee. What the government advised the general to do or not to do, or the advice that he gave the government, falls under solicitor-client privilege. Even as a non-lawyer, I can see that. That's why I don't understand Mr. Rae's question.
Mr. Walsh, I thought I heard you say that we could get this information by asking for it, extracting it. I thought you said that this was fine and that we were covered. We live in a democracy and we have freedom of information, freedom of the press, freedom of expression. We have people in the room who are exercising this freedom, and that's wonderful because that's what our work is all about. We've extracted information and it is in the public domain. It may or may not be able to be used in a legal way, but it is in the public domain. Yet there isn't a person in this room who would want to have anything in the public domain that would compromise our military efforts. So I don't understand the distinction.