We know that “too often” the government keeps secrets for reasons that aren’t compelling. And in these cases, the government is unjustified in keeping secrets. But we don’t know that “too often” is “most cases.” “Too often” doesn’t have to mean over half.

Keeping a secret is a practice that might facilitate abuse of power. Even if it’s justified, it still might facilitate abuse of power. It might just be a justified case of doing something that facilitates abuse of power.

Must be true. We know concealing the existence of a secret might facilitate abuse of power. So if there’s no compelling reason to conceal the keeping of a secret, one should not conceal the keeping of a secret, regardless of whether the keeping of a secret is justified.

We know concealing a secret without a compelling reason to do so is unjustified. But this doesn’t imply that concealing the secret is an abuse of power. We do not know from the stimulus what constitutes an abuse of power.

We don’t have any support for conditioning the keeping of a secret on not making it easier to abuse power. In fact, if there’s a compelling reason to keep a secret, then that might be something that’s justified even if it facilitates abuse of power.