Well this post makes me feel better in the case you do become the next Secretary Of State, and the sooner the better...
While active duty U.S. Navy, I encrypted a message that had NOT been directed to a particular group of our own ships. This was in a time when, had they received the message could prevent devastation of the originally inteded group.
In turn, I decided to address and send that message to the non-addressed group.
The subsequent action taken by the non-directed group’s commmander eventually prevented harm to the originally intended group, therby possibly saving MANY lives......
Am I in the running for a “BS” for doing what I did?
Not in my mind as it was my JOB!