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“omg” was the three-letter response from top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin -- when Justin Cooper, the technology pro overseeing Clinton's private home-based email servers, told her shortly after midnight on Jan. 9, 2011, that "someone was trying to hack us."
The document release reveals numerous episodes in which the Clinton team either suspected it had been hacked or seemingly acknowledged that security measures had come up short.
In a tense email exchange, Cooper wrote to Abedin at 2:57 a.m. Sunday: "I had to shut down the server. Someone was trying to hack us and while they did not get in i didnt want to let them have the chance to. I will restart in the morning."
At 6:30 the next morning, Abedin wrote to State Department officials -- including Clinton's chief of staff at the time, Cheryl Mills -- "Don't email hrc [Hillary Rodham Clinton] anything sensitive. I can explain more in person."
Later that year, Cooper wrote to Clinton, "It is a constant fight to keep up with the security measures and unfortunately we keep seeing reminders of why we need to."
And in August 2010, according to the documents, Clinton aide Monica Hanley wrote to Abedin after receiving a suspect spam email: "Yeah I wonder if someone hacked in. that stinks."
The files also included the handwritten notes of agents' March 2016 interview with Cooper, who described the presence of a “SCIF” — an acronym "sensitive compartmented information facility" -- in Clinton's Chappaqua, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., homes.
According to Cooper's comments as described in the notes, the server rooms in both locations were often left exposed.
“Open door — not always secured, sometimes when HRC not @ residence was not closed. (both resid)," the notes said.
“Open door — not always secured, sometimes when HRC not @ residence was not closed. (both resid)," the notes said.
There were "home computers" but "no secure computers" in the SCIFs, according to the notes. However, "phone/fax/video" were "secure" in the residences.
Cooper, a previous FBI report said, acknowledged at least "two instances where he destroyed Clinton's old mobile phones by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer."
