Governments don’t volunteer their own embarrassment. I spent decades in an industry where compliance officers exist for exactly one reason: because people hide the bad stuff unless somebody makes them show it.
Louis Brandeis knew this a century before anyone had a Bloomberg terminal or a subpoena for a server farm. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant,” Brandeis wrote, and he wasn’t being poetic. He was describing a mechanism. Hide the ledger and the fraud grows. Open it, and the fraud shrinks, because thieves hate an audience.
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