Transparency meeting closed to press?

A transparency meeting closed to the press? Isn't that like drinking lukewarm coffee or increasing debt to reduce debt? That just doesn't make sense.

But, apparently vice-president Biden is having a meeting with the Government Accountability and Transparency Board today and the press is not invited. That flies right in the face of what transparency is. Meetings have to be transparent to those beyond the meeting room walls in order to be considered transparent.