This may be the most extreme version of the principle-agent problem. Without leaking or sharing at least some information, it's impossible for the public to ho

This may be the most extreme version of the principle-agent problem. Without leaking or sharing at least some information, it's impossible for the public to hold them accountable. This seems like a fundamental impossibility; not just a matter of the 'wrong' people being privy to the same secrets. For one reason, there's no way we can know if our representatives are even privy to all the information to which they're entitled. Hell, even with a lot of information being leaked it still seems basically impossible to hold them accountable!