Hillary Clinton: The U.S. Doesn't Rely on Facebook for Intelligence

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The Obama Administration came under fire after Reuters and Fox News reported that internal State Department e-mails revealed that an Islamic militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the Benghazi attacks on social media platforms, but Sec of State Hillary Clinton fired back saying U.S. intelligence isn't based on random Facebook posts.

"Posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence," Sec Clinton said. "I think it just underscores how fluid the reporting was at the time and continued for some time to be." She insisted that time was needed to parse out the conflicting evidence related to the Benghazi attack. "The independent accountability review board is already hard at work looking at everything, not cherry picking one story here or one document there, but looking at everything - which I highly recommend as the appropriate approach for something as complex as an attack like this," she said.


Hillary Clinton: The U.S. Doesn't Rely on Facebook for Intelligence