Editorial: At MCAST, secrecy rewards incompetence
General πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ English πŸ“° Times of Malta πŸ•’ February 10, 2026 5:30 am

Editorial: At MCAST, secrecy rewards incompetence

Delayed transparency undermines accountability and weakens public institutions’ legitimacy and credibility

Is it possible to have too much transparency? In certain cases, the answer is clearly yes: transparency can hurt government effectiveness when it hampers decision-making that can only take place with the guardrails of secrecy. Military intelligence is a clear example.That principle, however, is hardly applicable to a national tertiary institution like MCAST, whose internal…

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