At Wednesday's WH briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer addressed the latest WikiLeaks revelations about the CIA's spying activities, saying: "While I don't want to get into confirming or denying this particular thing, I think it is interesting that -- how different subjects are approached. This one everyone is immediately rushing to and there should be a lot more coverage of this. This alleged leak should concern every single American in terms of the impact it has on our national security."



"It's interesting how there's sort of a double standard with when the leaks occur, how much outrage there is," Spicer observed, referring to internal leaks which have plagued the Trump campaign in the media.



"The idea that we are having these ongoing disclosures of national security and classified information should be something that everybody is outraged in this country," he added.



About the specific WikiLeaks accusations, he said: "You know all of these occurred under the last administration. That is important. All of these alleged issues."





QUESTION: Sean, we confirmed that there is a criminal investigation into this alleged theft of cyber tools from the CIA by WikiLeaks. What can the White House tell us about the situation?



Particularly the fact that it seems like there's another leak for the intelligence community that's on the scale of Edward Snowden? And can you share the American people that none of these tools have ever been used against them?



SPICER: Well, there's a couple things in that.



Number one, for obvious reasons, it is our policy as a government not to confirm the authenticity of any kind of disclosure or hack. That would be highly inappropriate for us. But you know all of these occurred under the last administration. That is important. All of these alleged issues.



And I think it's interesting to have it asked this way about the damage that could've occurred or what tools could've be used in light of what's been going on recently. I mean we've had you know your own network's correspondent, James Rosen, had his phones -- multiple phone tapped. What is -- was that appropriate back then?



I think there's a lot of concern out there about alleged leaks. I mean there is a -- there's two steps to this. And I think what you saw over the last week in terms of -- this should be a major concern to people in terms of the leaks that are coming out, and the desire to get to the bottom of them. Whether or not -- not specifically with respect to the disclosure that you're referring to.



But I think the idea that we are having these ongoing disclosures of national security and classified information should be something that everybody is outraged in this country.



This is the kind of disclosure that undermines our country, our security, and our well being. And you've seen over the last two years, you know, depending on the leak, it depends on the outrage. It's interesting how whenever the -- whether the leak occurred under the last administration, you had member after member talking about disclosures that occurred during the last administration, whether it was members of Congress -- you know, Elijah Cummings expressed concern during the last thing -- last administration in terms of the Americans that were -- you know, when it deal with Hillary Clinton, there was complete outrage about the leaks that occurred; members calling for investigations to the leaks.



It's interesting how there's sort of a double standard with when the leaks occur, how much outrage there is.



And so I do think it's important, while I don't want to get into confirming or denying this particular thing, I think it is interesting that -- how different subjects are approached. This one everyone is immediately rushing to and there should be a lot more coverage of this. This alleged leak should concern every single American in terms of the impact it has on our national security.