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Who decides what is allowed to be covered up? Surely not the public, if your goal is to hide those same “dangerous” things from the public.

Historically, this kind of control has always been a favored tool of the corrupt. If you build an apparatus of censorship, it will be used to harm the public.

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Yes. But if you give up all intel, then you have no intel at all, and soon this model of government will be undermined by the foreign actors.

There is a gray line somewhere between surveillance state and revealing all intel, which can serve national security and also diplomacy.

Traditionally military, diplomacy, and intelligence are the three areas where it may be okay to keep some things hidden.

The problem is that this typically ends up shifting corruption towards these sectors, which ends up hollowing out national security.

Things like overclassification are a serious problem.

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