Wait, who moans and wails? The pronoun antecedent seems to be the people who are objecting. But even untangling the grammar I have no idea what you’re talking about, not having been part of the moaning and wailing.
In other news, does nobody understand that when you spend a million dollars to keep your secrets, it really looks like your secrets must be horrible? Even though, I’m willing to bet those meetings were utterly boring, and opening the records as the law requires wouldn’t have inconvenienced anybody. It’s all about power and control - the opposite of transparency.