No, security professionals should find adequate solutions to a changing technological (and the corresponding sociological) landscape.

Just saying "No" without investigating alternative solutions to satisfy the spirit of the request is likely the problem.

It's also apparent that there was no routine security auditing which may have caught Clinton's behavior. I'm not sure you can claim the NSA was acting with security in mind when it's quite evident she was walking around with a blackberry every day in "Mahogany Row'.