There's an easy way to short-circuit most of the drama: everybody on that (or those) secret mailing lists ought to voluntarily take a pretty long wikibreak. (A year wouldn't be too long.) Their intentions were good, I know, but they got way too wrapped up in things, and they (and the rest of us) now need some time to unwrap.
It's more complicated than that. Sitting arbiters were on the list. Allegedly, three of them-- though I won't say which three are alleged to have been on the list. I think they'll come clean-- I think the community has been very clear that there's been enough secrecy here, and if they try to impede oversight from the community by refusing to admit participation, it will just contribute to the belief that they have something to hide.
I, for one, didn't know that (though I can't say I'm surprised).
I don't have words for how shocked I was. I know I've been a critic of a few specific members of the "militia", but I never seriously believed they were this organized and were actively evaluating "secret evidence" in what could only be called "secret trials". I never imagined they included arbiters among their ranks.
Alec