But if you were the lawyer advising that department, what would you say? Would you say to them, Mr. Walsh, that you're entitled to say that anything that we think is injurious to international affairs, we can cut it out, we can redact it? Or maybe there's just political embarrassment in having these things come out. Now, is political embarrassment injurious to the conduct of international affairs?
The issue was the government was saying time and time again that they had no knowledge of torture with respect to detainees handed over to the Afghan authorities, and yet they had these reports going back to 2002 saying there was torture being committed.