How about a Chess game where you have a Grand Master making all the moves on one side and you have the combined talents of 300,000,000 free citizens analyzing his moves and making suggestions as to the countermoves on the other side.
The strength of our Democracy is not our ability to execute things in secret but rather our ability to count on a free citizenry individual and collectively to stand up to the plate and do the right things on their own account with their own situational awareness. Free information is the strength of a democratic society, not its weakness.
Again, let me say, there is information that is genuinely classified because harm to the government will result. And then there is all the stuff that is marked classified because it is administratively convenient to do so, but which actually is not.
Of course, we agree that bureaucrats claiming secrecy for all of their bungling should be exposed and that genuine national interest must be kept private.
Where do we draw the line? Is private conversations with our allies or intelligence sources something we should reveal to everyone including our enemies?