Conspiracy to obfuscate?

Are Montgomery County and the news media conspiring to withhold the truth about the Silver Spring Transit Center (aka Paul S. Sarbanes Transit Center) from the public?

That's the way that it appears to me.

One only has to look at KCE's March 2013 structural evaluation report to realize that the SSTC is a LEMON. 
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DGS-BDC/Resources/Files/SS/509974/SSTC-Report-March-15-2013.pdf

• widespread cracking
• slabs more than an inch thinner than what they're supposed to be
• under-strength and over-stressed concrete
• exposed reinforcement
• missing reinforcement
• construction errors
• design errors
• complete lack of expansion joints
• inspection errors
• management (construction and project) errors and omissions
• etc.

Further evidence of a conspiracy to obfuscate:

• Montgomery County's refusal to hold public meetings in March 2013 to explain to the public why the county was rushing ahead with "repairs" to the LEMON SSTC (on the public's "dime") BEFORE explaining to the public what the county is doing, and why, and BEFORE answering the public's questions and responding to their comments.
• Montgomery County * blaming everybody but themselves--WMATA, the private builder, the private design engineer, the private inspector--even though Montgomery County is the SSTC's owner of record and construction manager, and further, Montgomery County is responsible for issuing permits and for inspecting ALL construction, both private and public, within its boundaries.   

        *  MC Director of the Department of General Services David Dise
           MC Executive Isaih Leggett
           MC Councilman & Transportation Committee Chairman Roger Berliner
           et al

           Urban Dictionary: thou doth protest too much

• the news media's failure to look into how and why Montgomery County non-competitively chose the SSTC's private contractor, engineer and inspector, even though private contractors, engineers and inspectors for most public works projects are selected competitively.
• Montgomery County's failure to address, and the news media's failure to report, why the 315 ft. by 580 ft. SSTC doesn't have a single expansion joint, even though WMATA design and construction standards require expansion joints be spaced no farther than every 100 ft. apart.

You can also make the argument that the Federal Transit Administration and the Maryland Transit Administration are part of the conspiracy, since 53% and 11% of the funds for the SSTC are federal and state respectively.

It sure looks like a conspiracy to me.

Silver Spring Transit Center