The Secret Service has no record that supports a central claim in Ron Suskind's new book that the agency detained and interrogated a Pakistani man in the basement of the White House, a Secret Service spokesman tells Newsmax.

'We have no record of the incident or the [Pakistani] individual referenced,' says Edwin Donovan, assistant special agent in charge of government and public affairs at the Secret Service.

'Bringing an individual inside the White House for questioning defies standard security and protocols and safety procedures,' Donovan adds.

'We would not bring a suspicious person, potential prisoner, prisoner, or any person who has not been properly vetted onto the White House grounds.' ....