Hillary Clinton’s “extremely careless” handling of top secret information and other classified material ought to be a secondary issue. The root problem is her utter refusal to follow the rules of government transparency, which led to her evasion of public records laws.

A plurality of Americans say they will vote for Clinton to be president. Given the alternatives, this may be understandable. But the shortcomings of her competition shouldn’t blind us to what we’re getting into: We are on the path to elect a president who has consistently acted above the law, and has consistently gotten away with it. She goes out of her way to evade the oversight fitting of her position and to hide from the American people what she is doing.