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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  1. I don’t even know what “White House Document” means, when referring to a draft. I would say Spicer may be stating a tautology.

  2. “It is not a White House document. I have no idea where it came from.”

    That’s because Bannon and Kobach are not running everything by you, Sean.

    We are going to be hearing this a lot and then seeing the same thing in bill form 2 weeks later on the floor of the house.

  3. Kobach(Racist-KS): Its not an “Official” document. At least not yet.
    Trump: I will sign it no matter what.

  4. In other news, Sadr City Sean told the press today that “White House staffers unanimously agree that the Precedent has the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that’s ever occupied the White House. Ever. Period!” He added that the staff universally believes it’s due to his “‘winning’ temperament. He knows how to win.”

  5. It was just a trial balloon…

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