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I agree, but I also disagree. There are many secrets they should not have, but there are many state secrets that should be secret. Just because a politician is a politician does not mean they should have no privacy but they should also expect to not be able to have secrets. It's all a fine line and it is really annoying.

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It's really not that fine at all. It's their job. Everything related to their job should be tracked and publicly accounted for. When they are "off the clock" so to speak, they can have as much privacy as they want.

You overestimate the publics ability to be a good accountant

This does not sound very reasonable, what about meetings regarding diplomatic and military strategies? Should that be public?

I'm open to considering certain cases of specific redaction when it means protecting things like this. Also we might be able to have a delayed disclosure process that would declassify the records after a certain period of time or something.

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