She did this on whose orders
That is the main question
It’s quite possible she did it on her own. When she was a FEC staffer there were stories about her being an anti-GOP zealot. There was some incident in which she took it on herself to put some GOP candidate who was running against Durbin at a disadvantage. As I can remember the action was it was so biased and partisan she should have fired on the spot, if we as a nation had any interest in enforcing the rules & laws demanding nonpartisanship from the federal civil service.
I wish I could remember or find the details of that incident. It came out when she first made the news.