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The Communist Party makes use of a secretive system of detention known as "shuanggui" to scrutinize and discipline its members.
But because it's a secretive system we have not been told if there was new evidence or if it was simply political pressure which was brought to bear".
It may be that the failings of its secretive system of governance, exemplified by the shoddy management of its nuclear plants, lead to more demands for political reform.
As we learned from reports on the secretive system, particularly those by Nina Bernstein in The Times, detainees were locked up and forgotten.
Rumors of possible "silent bans" for players—suspensions that are publicly acknowledged as injuries have persisted for years, in part because of tennis's secretive system of governance.
But even the more mundane problems -- like the two sets of books that Comptroller Alan Hevesi found earlier this year -- argue for a major overhaul of this hulk of an authority and this whole secretive system.
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They have less access to information than their counterparts in less secretive systems, meaning their recommendations often lack "operationability", as one party insider put it.
(The armed forces have a separate, more secretive, auditing system).
But China's secretive budgeting system makes it impossible to verify these figures.
The notoriously secretive honours system has come under fire from several quarters in the past two years.
The committee also criticised Monaco's secretive banking system, with 300,000 accounts for 30,000 people.
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