Such objections unsettle any easy assumptions that agency opposition to FOIA could only have been motivated by cynical self-interest, a hostility to democratic governance, or a wish to conceal abuses. … Opposition to FOIA, in other words, was not necessarily antidemocratic. It could emerge from agency desires to protect the public interest.

David E Pozen; Michael Schudson, Troubling Transparency- The…, loc. 71