Yeah, I would say that is a pretty questionable call. I would not have told him.
But then, the script is so poorly written it really is
direlogue. The writers had to have Affleck say that so Hartnett could come back with his emotional, melodramatic "No, you are."
Other questionable calls:
Sending a group of terra-formers to LV-426 (Aliens)
Making Vic Vega/Mr. White party of your armed robbery gang
