The private server setup alone should have been all any decent prosecutor needed to show “intent”
When I was on active duty in the Navy the job given to the sole or junior Communication Officer was Registered Publications Custodian (RPC). Before assuming those duties, they went through a school where they were subjected to a long list of things they could do wrong with fatal consequences. The joke was that the RPC guys would hold their class reunions at Leavenworth prison.