White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday the Trump administration is not preparing to set up a private global spy network to circumvent U.S. intelligence agencies.

"I haven't asked [President Trump], but it's not something that's currently in the works," Sanders said at the daily White House press briefing.

The denial followed a report in The Intercept that the administration was considering reliance on private spies to avoid "deep state" biases against Trump and to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo supplemental information.

The idea reportedly is being considered at the urging of Blackwater founder Erik Prince and Oliver North, the Iran-Contra figure turned conservative political commentator.

"I'm not aware of any plans for something of that definition or anything similar to that at this time," Sanders said.

"I haven't done a full survey of every member of the administration, but I can tell you as of right now, that's not something that's currently being planned and not something that I'm aware is moving forward in any capacity," she added.

When pressed, Sanders said: "Did some random person off the street come in and say something? I don't know."

Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, also denied the Intercept's report, calling it "completely false" through a spokesman.

"Any meetings Erik did have with members of the intelligence community, current or former, focused on his well-publicised plan for saving the U.S. taxpayer $42 [billion] in Afghanistan," Prince's spokesperson said in a statement. "The Intercept has, once again, targeted Erik using his high profile as click-bait to promote its own website and indulge the fantasies of its reporters with no care or regard for the facts.”

The Blackwater founder's Afghanistan proposal recommends largely privatizing America's longest war.

Prince told the Washington Examiner earlier this year that got a call from the White House saying Trump liked the Afghanistan idea, and he believes Trump would have embraced the plan if not for political fallout in August from a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.