The White House on Wednesday blamed the Obama administration for CIA snooping programs whose details were disclosed to WikiLeaks this year.

And press secretary Sean Spicer carped about a lack of media coverage, compared to a torrent of news stories about 2016 document leaks that hurt Hillary Clinton's White House ambitions,

'All of these occurred under the last administration – that is important – all of these alleged issues,' Spicer told reporters.

WikiLeaks describes its latest trove, planned for rolling release in the coming weeks, as covering the years 2013 to 2016.

And Reuters reported Wednesday afternoon that U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials have been aware since late last year of a CIA security breach that led to the WikiLeaks document dump.

Don't blame us! White House press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters on Wednesday that 'all' of the CIA programs exposed in this week's WikiLeaks release 'occurred under the last administration'

Barack Obama was president when the CIA reportedly developed high-tech tools to introduce security vulnerabilities in consumer electronics so it could eavesdrop at will

Two officials said they were focusing on government contractors as the likeliest source of the leak.

That means the materials were likely served up on a silver platter to the anti-privacy organization before President Donald Trump took office.

Spicer said Wednesday that Trump is committed to punishing leakers,

'We will go after people who leak classified information. We will prosecute them to the full extent of the law,' he said.

'This is – playing with our nation's national security is not something that should be taken lightly under this administration.'

Edward Snowden was predictable critical of the CIA this week, calling its programs 'reckless beyond words'

Spicer also complained about a lack of outrage among Democrats following the publication of 8,761 documents and files this week.

Among Democrats in Congress, he said, 'you had member after member talking about disclosures that occurred during the last administration.'

Spicer was referring to the damaging election-year WikiLeaks publication of an email archive belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta.

'When it dealt with Hillary Clinton, there was complete outrage about the leaks that occurred, members calling for investigations into the leaks. It's interesting how there is sort of a double standard with when the leaks occur, how much outrage there is,' he said.

'There is a big difference between disclosing John Podesta's Gmail accounts about a back and forth, and his undermining of Hillary Clinton and his thoughts on her on a personal nature, and the leaking of classified information,' Spicer insisted.

Donald Trump has been a vocal critic of intelligence service employees who leak sensitive information to the public

Hillary Clinton, the failed 2016 Democratic presidential campaign, saw her fortunes tumble after WikiLeaks published the Gmail archive of her campaign chairman John Podesta

Thousands of documents in a WikiLeaks release purportedly reveal hacking tools the CIA uses to break into phones, computers and even smart TVs

He also mentioned Democrats' 2016 obsession with the Justice Department 'when there was potential that the FBI had leaked certain information' last year.

'The members of Congress on the other side of the aisle, Hillary Clinton and others talked about how there was so much concern about classified information,' Spicer said.

'We've seen such silence in outrage from the media, from others, with the current disclosure now.'

'There should be a lot more coverage of this,' he added. 'This alleged leak should concern every single American in terms of the impact it has on our national security.'