So having a secure private server is not as good as a government server

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/irs-says-thieves-stole-tax-info-from-additional-220000/ar-BBlOJ7e

The rules, regs, codes, and law are clear no matter how inept enormous bureaucracies are.

June 29, 2011: A State Department cable to employees is issued under Clinton’s signature: “Avoid conducting official Department business from your personal e-mail accounts.”

August 2012: The State Department inspector general issues a scathing report on the performance of U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration that includes criticism of the fact he used a private e-mail account to handle “sensitive but unclassified” material. Gration is later fired.

“The Ambassador’s requirements for use of commercial e-mail in the office and his flouting of direct instructions to adhere to Department policy have placed the information management staff in a conundrum: balancing the desire to be responsive to their mission leader and the need to adhere to Department regulations and government information security standards,” the IG report said.