Really? Then why did he mark all his letters plotting the capture of Fort Sumter starting back in December 1860 as "confidential" and "secret"?
You don't mind if I quote you?
Non-public conduct of national security policy does not in itself pervert the Constitution.
Walt
Go for it. If all national security policy was conducted out in the open and in public, we'd be living under Soviet Union right now. Not that you'd have any objections to that...