Passage Summary: Governments shouldn't do things that make it easy to abuse power unless they have a really good reason. Keeping secrets is one of those things. Unfortunately, officials often keep secrets for bad reasons, and hiding the fact that they are even keeping secrets makes things even worse.

Reasoning: N/A

Analysis: Since this is a 'Must Be True' question, we need to synthesize the facts. We know that practices facilitating abuse (like secret-keeping) require a compelling reason. We are told officials often keep secrets for 'insubstantial' (non-compelling) reasons. Therefore, it must be true that officials are sometimes engaging in a practice (secret-keeping) that they should not be doing according to the first rule. Look for an inference that combines the rule about abuse with the reality of how secrets are kept.