[jacquesm]

I disagree. For instance: LE might become aware of a sexting or suicide attempt or some other thing that people do that is not strictly illegal but that might be embarrassing or that could cause the person trouble in their private life. Having a degree of confidentiality helps to both speed up the process because not every word has to be weighed on the scale of 'how does this look in the public arena' and it helps to preserve the privacy of all parties involved.

[xiphias2]

Sure, ,,let's think of the children''.

We heared it many times, but we're talking about a govermental agency meddling with election results. Politics and these cases are very different in nature. Personally I wouldn't be comfortable not taking action when the FBI would ask anything from me, because it's safer to just comply.

[TOMDM]

Keeping investigations private in order to protect those presumed innocent in a normal part of any law enforcement.

Should police officers dump the body cam footage of every domestic abuse situation they walk into online?

If you want to fault the oversight and transparency of the goals of these agencies, then sure. But let's also not pretend that making all elements of investigations public would be a good idea.

[philjohn]

Not just children - adults can be suicidal too, and in certain places that's a pretty bad crime.

Radical transparency only works if you remove all externalities - but we live in the real world.

[nobody9999]

>We heared it many times, but we're talking about a govermental agency meddling with election results. Politics and these cases are very different in nature.

Which specific government agency meddling in which specfic election? The Trump Administration meddling in the 2020 election with Hatch Act violations[0]? The FBI releasing a statement (which turned out to be nothing at all) about Hillary Clinton emails found on Anthony Weiner's computer[1]?

Or was it the FBI demanding that Twitter take down the NY Post's tweet about their "Hunter Biden laptop" article[2]?

>Personally I wouldn't be comfortable not taking action when the FBI would ask anything from me, because it's safer to just comply.

Then you don't know or understand your rights. And more's the pity.

[0] https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/violations-...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/what-fbi-found-emails-anthony-weine...

[2] Except the FBI didn't demand (or request, for that matter) any such thing.