When an organisation stops being transparent, it's workforce naturally becomes less worried about failures when no more you face backlash for your mistakes, since the leadership keeps shielding you.
This is fine for a private org, not acceptable for a civilian public organization. General public very gullible, easy to feed them conspiracy theories.
This hurts especially for a organization founded on transparency and accountability since they struggled for public support, ruined by poor modern leadership who can't handle politicians.
We went from telling politicians how it's done to politicians telling thrnm what to do. Embarrassing from a leadership point of view.