Now that says it all

Your transparent government at work:

Senior government officials — who reporters were not permitted to quote — insisted that there is nothing secretive about the SPP process.

I'll deal with the substantive part of the article later on - and indeed the gall of the anonymous senior officials is the least of the problems with the SPP process as a whole. But I've seen few better encapsulations than this of Deceivin' Stephen's obsession with secrecy - and complete inability to recognize how that runs contrary to his own hollow reassurances of accountability.