Interesting theory, but how does that account for HDR’s own action in setting up a private email server?
What HDR did was just what all of the Nomenklatura do; something corrupt, dirty and crooked. She was playing the game the elite play, all by their own rules. Nobody set her up to do this, it was just her way of cheating. All of the other players have their skeletons, too.
When it’s time for the Purge, the left just goes and picks something you’ve done. In this case, it just happened to be the server. It could have been anything else, for anyone else.