Prevarication Or Preemptive Protection of Prisoners’ Privacy?

This just in from Beth:
“I nominate the lawyers who argued for the Bush Administration's position on the following matter for the straight-face argument award. The administration is worried about invading the privacy of "shadow prisoners" in secret prisons subjected to torture at the hands of our CIA?????
‘A federal judge moved a step closer Wednesday to forcing the government to reveal the names of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees by rejecting its contention that identifying them would violate their privacy. ...
Ruling on a lawsuit filed by The Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said the government had not backed up its claim that prisoners faced retaliation by terrorist groups if their identities became known.’”