In the interest of transparency and accountability

"In the interest of transparency and accountability..."

When someone prefaces the statements which are about to follow with a line like that, you can be pretty well sure that what they are about to say will be neither transparent nor accountable.

And you'd be right.

As T.B. quotes:

In the interest of transparency and accountability, we would very much like to publish the results of the election (name of candidates and number of votes) on the Alumni Affairs and Development Website. However, privacy legislation dictates that we need the permission of all candidates involved in order to do so. Therefore, we are requesting that you please notify us no later than Tuesday, August 26th if you are willing to allow us to publish your results.

It sounds like MUD — Memorial University of Dannystan — has a lot more in common with Glorious Leader than the late brouhaha over the presidential hiring fiasco might lead you to think.

Elections Dannystan, too, dragged its heels about releasing the late election figures, to the point of breaking its own governing statute.