Public officials' communications should be in the domain of the public by default unless there is a real urgent need to keep something secret.
Public officials' communications should be in the domain of the public by default unless there is a real urgent need to keep something secret.
Its not too different from not having a client see your business's internal communications. 99% of the time you aren't trying to screw your client and are trying to do a good job for them, but you really don't want to show them the sausage factory in any case because it will make it harder to do a good job for them if everything you do or say is presented to the client.
In your opinion should politicians be allowed to meet each other and talk privately (about politics) at all? Or should there be no private meetings allowed? (Or at least no talking politics if they do meet.)