Hillary Clinton insists that if anyone is lying about the aftermath of the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks that left four Americans dead, it's 'not me.'

More than three years after the fires inside a U.S. diplomatic compound in the Libyan port city died down, the political heat is intensifying again – with Clinton facing tough questions along her road to the White House.

The Daily Sun, a newspaper in rural Conway, New Hampshire, hosted an editorial board meeting with Clinton on Wednesday. Columnist Tom McLaughlin recounted for her the claims of victims' family members who said she had told them a crude Internet video that mocked the Islamic faith was responsible for inciting the attackers who killed their loved ones.

Clinton has denied making any such statement, despite the accounts of four people. One, the father of a slain CIA security contractor, took written notes of her words.

'Somebody is lying,' McLaughlin told her Wednesday. 'Who is it?'

'Not me, that's all I can tell you,' Clinton replied, casting blame on the families.

NOT LYING: Hillary Clinton suggested to a New Hampshire newspaper that family members of Benghazi terror attack victims aren't truthful when they say she told them an Internet video was responsible for their loved ones' deaths

FAMILY DAY: Clinton and President Barack Obama attended the Transfer of Remains Ceremony for the return of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Libyan embassy employees at Joint Base Andrews on September 14. 2012 – after which they spoke with family members of the fallen

TERROR IN NORTH AFRICA: The Benghazi attack killed four Americans and created a political cottage industry of partisan squabbling over what happened, what the U.S. government knew about it, and when

Political fallout from Benghazi has centered on the question of whether the Obama administration sought to avoid admitting, just eight weeks before the president stood for re-election, that terrorists had attacked an American facility overseas.

And Clinton, who ran the State Department at the time, has attracted as much incoming fire as Obama.

In her first Capitol Hill testimony about the Benghazi attacks, she famously tamped down senators' inquiries into the nature of what happened, saying instead that the focus should be on doing 'everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again.'

'We had four dead Americans,' she recalled, her voice in a seemingly perpetual crescendo. 'Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?'

In the early days following the September 11, 2012 attacks, CIA officials scrubbed talking-point guidance prepared for other government officials, removing references to terrorism.

Clinton made several public statements referring to the video, titled 'Innocence of Muslims,' suggesting that it sparked unrest in Benghazi the way it had in Cairo and elsewhere in the Arab world.

In private correspondence, however, she conceded to family members and foreign leaders what Americans would learn later: The Benghazi compound was assaulted by militant jihadis in an al-Qaeda-linked group, who had pre-planned their attack.

'WHAT DIFFERENCE?': Clinton got into hot water four months after the attacks, saying before Congress that it mattered little whether terrorists or a coarse Internet video was to blame

On September 14, 2012, she and President Obama attended a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, where the bodies of the dead Americans, including Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, were returned to their families.

On that same day, a State Department official in Tripoli, Libya, wrote to Washington to say that 'it is becoming increasingly clear that the series of events in Benghazi was much more terrorist attack than a protest which escalated into violence.'

And while the inflammatory video had made waves outside of Libya, the writer added, 'we want to distinguish, not conflate, the events in other countries with this well-planned attack by militant extremists.'

But Clinton, still secretary of state, told four different relatives of the fallen that the filmmaker would be held responsible, according to their public statements. Another week would pass before she publicly referred to Benghazi as a terrorist event.

Charles Woods, whose son Ty Woods was a Benghazi casualty, told The Weekly Standard in October that he had written down Clinton's words, verbatim, in his notebook, as she spoke.

Reading from it, he recalled what Clinton had told him: 'We are going to have the filmmaker arrested who was responsible for the death of your son.'

On Wednesday in New Hampshire, Hillary blurred and blunted questions about who had known what, and when.

'What happened is people were doing the best they could with information that was changing,' she told the newspaper's editorial board.

'The CIA wrote and approved the talking points that were used. It was also true that from Egypt to Tunisia to Pakistan, the video was the primary spark that was sending people into protesting against our facilities. All of this was happening simultaneously.'

Responding more directly to the family members' recollections, she suggested their grief may have clouded their memories.

'I can't recite for you everything that was in a conversation where people were sobbing, where people were distraught, the president and the vice president, we were all making the rounds talking to people, listening to people,' she explained.

'I was in a very difficult position because [as of that moment] we have not yet said two of the four dead were CIA ... This was a part of the fog of war.'