In the case of detainees, if we released information about their identities, it could not only put them in danger, it could also jeopardize their family or associates and may result in a death or cause them to be used for counter-intelligence against NATO operations.
As the CDS said on Friday, the Taliban put a huge amount of effort into finding out where their people have gone if they've disappeared. They don't know whether they've been killed; they don't know whether they've been detained. They don't know, when they show back up, whether they've simply been released because of a lack of evidence or if it's because they've turned and are reporting to us. They don't know whether they're giving us information and when they've been detained. They put an enormous amount of effort into activities, we know, to try to determine all of those things.
At the same time, they find it very difficult to peel back what happened and look at our tactics, and therefore to make us more predictable to them and therefore increase the risk to our soldiers. This is the operational security aspect of it. It causes the Taliban great difficulty. We're comfortable with it because we have a responsibility to our soldiers and their families.