I agree with you. Doesn't matter who you are: the rules are the rules and when it comes to sensitive National material, there's no wiggle room. And if you're important/privileged then in a democracy you deserve less leniency as you ought to know better and be setting an example.
No idea why she would do this- though FWIW, I also see it in healthcare where some very smart people are lax with patient information. Perhaps the mind is so focused in the clouds that the feet in the muck are forgotten.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
