Spicer: Leaked Draft Executive Order On Detainees Is Not From White House

White House press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily White House briefing, Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Wednesday that a draft executive order asking for a review of methods for interrogating terror suspects and looking into possibly reopening CIA-run “black site” prisons outside the United States was not a White House document and declined to comment on it.

“It is not a White House document, and I would just urge those people who have reported on it, this is now I think the second day that we’ve had a document that was not a White House document get reported on as a factual document,” Spicer said in his daily briefing. “It is not a White House document. I have no idea where it came from.”

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