State Department officials pushed back on Tuesday against conservative conspiratorial rumblings alleging that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had fabricated an injury in order to avoid giving testimony on the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya.

On Monday, John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador under President George W. Bush, cast doubt on reports claiming that a dehydrated Clinton -- recovering from a recent stomach illness that had kept her from an overseas trip -- had fainted and hit her head over the weekend, resulting in a concussion. According to Bolton, Clinton had instead come up with a "diplomatic illness" -- supposedly common in the foreign service community -- to avoid heading to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify on the Benghazi attack.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters on Tuesday that Bolton's charges were "completely untrue," later suggesting that he didn't know what he was talking about.

“I can assure you, he's not privy to any inside information," she said, referring to Bolton's allegation as “wild speculation based on no information,” according to Politico.

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