Only illegitimate governments lie to and keep secrets from it’s citizens.
A concept some even here on FR apparently can't grasp.
Can anyone name any government at any point in time that has not kept secrets? Certainly no government in existence today, nor any known form of government in the past including those here before, during, and after our revolution. Snowden keeps secrets, so does Julian Assange, so does Wikileaks, so does every company both public and private.
Do you disagree or is it your view that all government are illegitimate?