Especially when it will be received negatively by the public. What’s the point? Why do they willingly allow themselves to be crucified in the media and potentially give intel to their enemies of what they’re up to?
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In Western-style governments the government is beholden to the people, the citizens of the country. Information which plausibly needs to be kept secret is not declassified at all, however information which has no reasonable case to remain classified is revealed to the public precisely because the citizens might object. They deserve to know because they are exercising oversight over the government; the government serves them, not the other way around.
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