Clinton has apologized for exclusively using the private email account and her own server during her time as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.
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Judge Emmet G Sullivan issued the order on Friday as part of a long-running public records battle by Judicial Watch.
Hillary Clinton will have to give testimony about her secret email server and account, but it will be in writing rather than in person, a federal judge ruled Friday, delivering a partial victory to the Democratic presidential candidate.
“We will move quickly to get these answers”, Fitton said in a statement.
But Powell used an AOL account for such business and didn’t use a private server; he also used his government email for classified information.
Mrs. Clinton exclusively used the email account tied to a server she kept at her home in NY for her government business. “The decision is a reminder that Hillary Clinton is not above the law”.
Judicial Watch has until 14 October to submit questions to Clinton, who must respond within 30 days, according to the decision.
Judge Emmet Sullivan’s ruling in U.S. District Court in Washington is likely to be a relief to Democrats, who did not welcome the prospect of Clinton having to submit to hours of questioning by lawyers in the middle of her campaign for the November 8 election against Republican Party nominee Donald Trump.
“Judicial Watch is a right-wing organization that has been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s”, said Brian Fallon, the spokesman of the Clinton Campaign.
Sullivan also allowed Judicial Watch to get sworn testimony from a former State Department official named John Bentel. At that time, Clinton lawyer David Kendall – joined by State and Justice department attorneys – argued questioning of Clinton would be moot because questions about the server had been investigated at length by the FBI, State Department inspector general and Congress.
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will have to answer questions under oath in her growing email scandal while secretary of state. Although he declined to order her to answer questions in person, his ruling underscored the legal complications that Clinton faces even as she enters the homestretch of her campaign. Powell used a State Department computer for classified communications.
They had asked for a three-hour window to question her, less than the seven hours they were given to question several current and former State Department officials last month.
Judicial Watch made a name for itself by dogging former president Bill Clinton, and has now filed a number of lawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act (Foia) seeking records from the state department about Hillary Clinton’s time spent as the nation’s top diplomat.
Judicial Watch said it was happy with the ruling.
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The State Department confirmed in a recent court filing it will release all of the deleted work-related emails that the Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered from Mrs Clinton’s private system.
