Dept. of Justice: Still closed and secretive September 11, 2014 in Uncategorized by Anthony | 3 comments The former Secretary General at the Department of Justice, Brian Purcell, resigned from his office on 28 July last. Purcell resigned following a damning report that found a ‘closed, secretive, silo-driven culture’ at the department with ‘significant leadership and management problems.’ I rang the Dept. of Justice today for an update on Mr. Purcell’s position and experienced that closed, secretive culture at first hand. I eventually got on to a civil servant who has not yet being infected with the secrecy virus.?