Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser at the Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser at the Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser at the Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser at the Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) (Associated Press) 
 
 WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton said under oath in a court filing Thursday that she can't recall key details about her use of a private email server or she refused to answer questions about it posed by a conservative legal group. 
 
 Clinton lawyer David Kendall provided the Democratic presidential nominee's sworn responses to 25 written questions submitted by Judicial Watch. The group has filed multiple lawsuits seeking copies of government documents from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. 
 
 Clinton's answers provided no new information beyond what she told FBI agents during the recently closed investigation into whether she and her staff mishandled classified information. 
 
 In her responses, Clinton used some variation of "does not recall" at least 21 times. 
 
 For example, Clinton was asked when she decided to use her private email account to conduct government business and whom she consulted in making that decision. 
 
 Clinton said she recalled making the decision in early 2009, but she "does not recall any specific consultations regarding the decision." 
 
 Asked whether she was warned that using a private email account conflicted with federal record-keeping rules, Clinton responded that "she does not recall being advised, cautioned, or warned, she does not recall that it was ever suggested to her, and she does not recall participating in any communication, conversation, or meeting in which it was discussed." 
 
 Judicial Watch had sought to depose Clinton in person about the creation of the private server located in the basement of her New York home. In August U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan instead ordered the Democratic presidential nominee to respond to the group's questions in writing. 
 
 In addition to her inability to recall the requested information, Clinton entered various legal objections to the formation or wording of 18 of the 25 questions. She also filed eight separate general objections to the process under which the questions were being asked. 
 
 Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the group's lawyers will closely review Clinton's responses. 
 
 "Mrs. Clinton's refusal to answer many of the questions in a clear and straightforward manner further reflects disdain for the rule of law," Fitton said. 
 
 Judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman protested the process in a statement Thursday night. He said Sullivan's denial of Freedom Watch's requests for an oral deposition "cleverly allowed Hillary Clinton ... to stonewall giving responsive and meaningful answers." 
 
 Klayman continued, "Now, even if motions to compel complete and responsive answers are filed, they will not be decided for some time, and Judge Sullivan will have run out the clock — paving the way for Hillary Clinton ... to easily win the presidency." 
 
 Campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Clinton has answered these same questions in multiple settings for over a year, and her answers Thursday "are entirely consistent with what she has said many times before." 
 
 "Judicial Watch is a right-wing organization that has been attacking the Clintons since the 1990s, and this frivolous lawsuit is just its latest failed attempt to hurt her campaign for the presidency," Fallon said. 
 
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 In New Responses, Hillary Clinton Insists Email Setup A Matter Of 'Convenience' 
 
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 Hillary Clinton said she decided to employ a private email server "for the purpose of convenience" in early 2009 and doesn't remember "specific consultations" about using that account to conduct State Department business, the Democratic presidential nominee told lawyers in material related to a Freedom of Information Act case released Thursday. 
 
 In written responses to 25 questions from the conservative group Judicial Watch, Clinton largely hewed to her prior statements about the email controversy, often saying she did not recall details about the arrangement. Clinton signed the court filing "under penalty of perjury" on October 10, one day after her debate with Republican nominee Donald Trump. 
 
 Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have tangled with Judicial Watch for more than 20 years. 
 
 Some of that friction showed in her answers over 20-odd pages, littered with objections. At times, the candidate accused the conservative nonprofit of misstating her earlier remarks. 
 
 On occasion, she declined to answer questions about the vulnerability of her emails to hacking on the ground that it exceeded the boundaries of what a judge ordered earlier this year. And she cited attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer a question about her 11-hour testimony to a congressional panel in October 2015 that 90 to 95 percent of her emails "were in the State's system." 
 
 Among her responses: 
 
 Clinton said she told the CBS television program 60 Minutes that using personal email would be "convenient" because "former Secretary of State Colin Powell advised her in 2009 about his use of a personal email account to conduct official State Department business." 
 
 She said she did not recall "being advised, cautioned, or warned" that using a personal account would break federal record keeping laws. Instead, she said she thought her email would be captured because it was sent to other government employees on their "state.gov" accounts. She added that she "does not recall" being warned about hacking of her email during her tenure at the State Department. 
 
 Clinton said a November 2010 exchange with her close aide Huma Abedin about getting a separate address or device "was triggered by a problem with the State Department's telephone system." She said after the correspondence, officials at State changed the way they notified her about telephone calls from family and friends, presumably resolving the issue. 
 
 She said she did not recall a June 28, 2011, cable to State Department workers that instructed them to secure personal email accounts and advised against using personal accounts for official business. "The presence of Secretary Clinton's name at the end of the cable was a formality and it did not mean that she sent, authored or reviewed the cable," she wrote. 
 
 Clinton also "does not recall" destroying business emails "or instructing anyone else to do so after she left office and before her attorneys reviewed" messages in her account. Clinton said she doesn't have "personal knowledge" of the process her lawyers used to review messages and send them onto the State Department. 
 
 The Justice Department closed an investigation into Clinton's email practices with no charges against her or any of her aides. FBI Director James Comey found she had been "extremely careless" but concluded "no reasonable prosecutor" would have sought criminal charges. But that decision remains deeply unpopular among Republicans in Congress and with Trump, who is vying with Clinton to become president. 
 
 In the course of the investigation, the FBI recovered thousands of Clinton's emails during her tenure at the State Department. Many of those messages will be released in batches over the next month. 
 
 Clinton has said using one email account was a "mistake" she will not repeat. But it is also one she is unlikely to shake for the time being, if conservative watchdogs get their way. 
 
 "We're pleased that we now have a little bit more information about Hillary Clinton's email practices," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. "Our lawyers will be reviewing the responses closely. Mrs. Clinton's refusal to answer many of the questions in a clear and straightforward manner further reflects disdain for the rule of law."
– As ordered by a judge in August, Hillary Clinton replied under oath this week to questions submitted by the right-wing legal group Judicial Watch about her use of a private email server, the AP reports. Clinton didn't say much new in her written answers that she hadn't already said on the record. In fact, she didn't say much of anything at all. Clinton used some form of "does not recall" 21 times in answer to the 25 questions. A typical response: "She does not recall being advised, cautioned, or warned, she does not recall that it was ever suggested to her, and she does not recall participating in any communication, conversation, or meeting in which it was discussed." Topics on which she didn't recall include hacking, attempted hacking, and having any reason to use a personal email server besides convenience, Politico reports. Furthermore, Clinton submitted legal objections to 18 of the questions and added eight legal objections to the process in general. She signed her answers Monday "under penalty of perjury," NPR reports. The president of Judicial Watch, which has been going back and forth with the Clintons for more than 20 years, says Clinton's answers once again show her "disdain for the rule of law." A Clinton campaign spokesperson argues these were the same questions Clinton has been asked multiple times for more than a year, and she's given the same answers.