As an experienced bureaucrat and trained historian who spent her entire working life in or near the belly of the security state, I am here to tell you this very important truth:

To a very large extent, information security programs -- including COMSEC -- are excellent examples of the famous self-licking ice cream cone.

And yes, I have been a COMSEC custodian. I have also been through the NSA operations security course, and served on the OPSEC working group at a military operational headquarters.

But for many years I earned my living declassifying old military operational records. From that experience, I learned that nothing is quite so dead as an overtaken-by-events military or diplomatic secret, and the only reason most governments want to restrict such information is that it often shows that Our Fearless Leaders can be credulous goofs.

As for Hillary and her emails, yawn.