But it gets you further then if you have something to hide ! Why make it easy for the Rats. If you have done something squirrelly you've given them a handle to immediately block you (Maybe even put you jail!) or a handle to control you. Which they choose depends on their immediate agenda.
No, actually it doesn't.
People who are above reproach are far easier to smear and destroy because they have no mental or legal protections in place.
The more innocent they are the easier it is to grind them to dust.
Ask Raymond Donovan about it.
The case against him was so bad that is lawyers did not even bother to put on a defense. The jury acquitted. But e still lost is job, is business and over a million in legal bills.