How could a report on committing egregious human rights abuses possibly hurt personal privacy? How could it hurt our international relationships? How could it deal with solicitor-client privilege? It's beyond me.
I can understand that you want to hear the other side, but I'm going to put it to you that you will be listening long and hard to try to find one iota or scintilla of justification. It will be like searching all day for two grains of wheat in a barrel of chaff; ere you search all day and find them, they be not worth it. I put that to you.