I don't think the article positions secrecy as the primary, let alone sole, purpose of this effort at all. It is clearly, as you say, to get around all sorts of

I don't think the article positions secrecy as the primary, let alone sole, purpose of this effort at all. It is clearly, as you say, to get around all sorts of 'inconvenient' things in government bureaucracy. The thing is that a lot of that bureaucracy is there explicitly to slow down and provide scrutiny over one of the most vulnerable to corruption parts of government. The people who enforce the law, without supervision, can easily become the law, and that's extremely dangerous for civil society.