In the long tradition of democratic accountability, the question of where power resides — and whether it can be witnessed — sits at the heart of self-governance. When President Trump was secretly evacuated from Air Force One in Turkey amid a reported Iranian threat, traveling concealed in a catering container to a decoy aircraft, the immediate security logic was familiar; what was not was the weeks of silence that followed. Unlike predecessors who disclosed covert movements once danger had passed, this administration offered no accounting, leaving independent observers — and the press corps th