Clinton asks high-tech ‘disrupters’ to go after Islamic State

WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that the Islamic State group had become “the most effective recruiter in the world” and that the only solution was to engage U.S. technology companies in blocking or taking down militants’ websites, videos and encrypted communications.

“You are going to hear all the familiar complaints: freedom of speech,” Clinton said in an hourlong speech and question-and-answer session at the Brookings Institution’s annual Saban Forum, a gathering that focuses mostly on Israel’s security issues.

In a reference to Silicon Valley’s reverence for disruptive technologies, Clinton said, “We need to put the great disrupters at work at disrupting ISIS,” an acronym for the militant group.

At one point, responding to a question from the audience, she referred to using the “nuclear option” against Iran — usually interpreted as using a nuclear weapon — before her attention was caught by a prominent member of the audience, Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court.