Because if a chimp knows you are watching it, it has the ability to change its behavior. Then you have to react. It reacts to your reaction and its turtles all the way down.

The large point is chimps have 3 inch brains. Which creates upper bounds on what they can understand and control. And to survive and cope with the fact that they cant control everything in the universe they start making up stories. If only...

Sometimes, intimacy is best.

Also, when faced with opposition, planning a defence or attack in private is probably going to be more effective.

yes, but the same people who have the power to make those same things public are the ones benefiting from the same fraud, waste, and corruption

Would you?