Good points, but what makes you think the Taliban aren't going after these people already? Or that the information isn't already accessible to them - the Afghan

Good points, but what makes you think the Taliban aren't going after these people already? Or that the information isn't already accessible to them - the Afghan government is incredibly corrupt, and I find it hard to believe that anything that they know would be kept secret. Ditto for Iraq - the US went in woefully underprepared, and even today you have roving militants gunning each other down. If there were more transparency and more information about what was happening at the time, you'd have avoided (or at least mitigated) situations like Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, and had less violence.