Society can&#x27;t function without some level of secrecy there are plenty of people who have social issues for being &quot;too honest&quot;, secrets aren&#x27;t that different to lies at the end and we need to balance them both to maintain any relationship.<p>A country can still have secrets while maintaining transparency, the government like any other entity has confidential information that has to be kept secret, as no one can operate on any meaningful level if everything they do is public.<p>Anything from actual national security information (e.g. from list of covert agents to nuclear launch codes) to day to day diplomatic and policy related information needs secrecy.
You can&#x27;t build a case when the criminals know you coming after them, you can&#x27;t negotiate a treaty when every discussion is public, you can&#x27;t always say what you spending money one because it can cause and arms race etc.<p>The article doesn&#x27;t misses that aspect the notion that a government can operate without any type of secrecy is just absurd.