Hillary Clinton's "extremely careless … handling of very sensitive, highly classified information" as described by FBI director James Comey has caused me to reflect on my own past top secret security clearance.  I worked briefly for the State Department as a mere graduate student intern while at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, an experience that leaves me baffled by Clinton's behavior and her current exoneration. My two internships with the State Department left no doubt in my mind about the importance of classified information security protocols.  Intern orientation at the State Department's Washington, D.C. Foggy Bottom headquarters during the summer of 1996 included a security officer's briefing.  He indicated with his slide of the former Soviet, now Russian, embassy festooned with antenna atop the Wisconsin Avenue heights overlooking the capital that this often hostile country's choice of diplomatic real estate was...(Read Full Article)