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Originally posted by Scipio
And another thing, how can they say that disclosing names will somehow "tip off" Al Qaeda? Surely the Al Qaeda leadership knows who has important information. Surely there's some degree of compartmentalization (which there is), and surely they at least know what important people we got. It's not like releasing their names will decrease our security. What, are they going to find out we have knowledge of some impending attack, and then decide not to do it? Surely that's not what we're trying to prevent.
Their logic doesn't seem to hold much water to me.
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Likely, they're investigating all said persons contact with the outside world through regular mail, e-mail, phonecalls, etc. to see what people are sending them. If they find a Al-Qaeda contact or something, they can for one confirm the detainees guilt, and two, they can squeeze some information out of said contact which could be gold.