Can your company legally tell me how many FISA warrants and NSL letters they received in my FOIA request?
Of course not.
Of course not.
Not to mention independent organisations like ACLU, EFF etc. who have been very vocal about trying to abolish the FISA process entirely.
Again none of this would remotely happen in China. We've seen first hand what happens to the media and dissenters in HK.
And that there is the problem from which no argument about checks and balances can recover.
Which is why real democracies don't allow secret courts.