“Department, with government IT professionals unaware that she was using a private and apparently buggy computer server to conduct official business.”
What a load of crap. Like no IT pro knows how to read an IP address and doesn’t know it ain’t one of theirs?
Please. If it confused them, they would seek the source of the issue. Then discovered a non Govt server on the network. Now who told them to STFU about it?
Email addresses at State might look like this Hillary R. Clinton SecState and not like this, e.g., HRC22@State.gov. The fact that Hillary was using a private address was masked by the "Hillary R. Clinton, SecState" which is what would have showed up to user's... unless they clicked on her actually name to find the private server address.
The IT person is the one who actually found the HRC22@ private server and made an issue of it.
Ask me why and I will just say I was working overseas as an actual IT profession in the foreign service - and I was unaware - simply because she didn't email me!