State Dept. declined to investigate hack exposing Clinton emails in 2013

By Sarah Bedford
Published August 20, 2015 7:56pm ET
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State Dept. declined to investigate hack exposing Clinton emails in 2013
The State Department has been reluctant to specify when it first learned of Clinton's unusual email arrangement. (AP Photo/Jim Watson,Pool) | JIM WATSON

State Department officials did nothing to protect Hillary Clinton’s emails after a high-profile breach that exposed her personal email address in 2013.

A Romanian hacker named Marcel Lazar Lehel hacked into an account belonging to Sidney Blumenthal, an informal Clinton aide, in 2013 and sent several emails to reporters.

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