@shermozle
Oh I totally agree with you. No matter what govt agency is involved, #Accountability and as much #Transparency as is possible ought to be the *baseline*. Unfortunately, our successive govt(s) instead of divulging as much as is possible while balancing the risks of such diclosures tend to kep their mouths shut (out of fear? Ie. Official Secrets Act, etc.). However more transparency is not impossible if Departmental heads are included in the decisions to divulge information and if there is a willingness to account to the public. Standard stuff really. Take #MikeBurgess the #ASIO Director. He plies a fine line when informing the public between transparency and #GuardedInformation by assessing the risks (not on his own I’d wager), while still informing the public into the workings of the department he leads. Defence is notorioulsy *Black*, unnecessarily so imho. So is #PMC and Intelligence agencies.
There are of course independent #Institutions (legal and public) as well as #Inspectorates for the *black* stuff and having seen =some of them in action during my working life, they do a decent job of keeping everything legal, above board and appropriate — we just don’t see it done but the polies that have been briefed for it do and *they should tell us so*.
This only my opinion of course, and I’m not briefed :)