Is this akin to the "everyone gets pen tested eventually, whether they want to or not" joke? Also I would guess whether we hear about it or not is more likely

Is this akin to the "everyone gets pen tested eventually, whether they want to or not" joke? Also I would guess whether we hear about it or not is more likely to be a political decision. Can the news be leveraged for whatever change we want to see? Or is it too embarrassing and works against us? Sometimes it doesn't need hiding, so then we find out. (Cynical, I know.)