GOP President-elect Donald Trump ratcheted up his war with the intelligence community Sunday by asking if CIA Director John Brennan himself was responsible for leaking a dossier of unverified information to the press about Trump\u2019s alleged escapades in Russia.
After Brennan appeared on \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d to call Trump\u2019s comparison of the intelligence community to Nazi Germany \u201coutrageous,\u201d Trump fired of a series of tweets, in which he questioned whether Brennan was personally behind BuzzFeed\u2019s recent publication of a 35-page dossier of totally unverified information on Trump.
\u201cWhat I do find outrageous is equating intelligence community with Nazi Germany,\u201d Brennan said earlier on Sunday. \u201cI do take great umbrage with that and there is no basis for Mr. Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking information that was already available publicly.\u201d
Brennan said during that same interview that \u201cthere is no interest in undermining the president-elect.\u201d
But Trump doesn\u2019t appear convinced, despite statements from Brennan and also from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper earlier this week that the intelligence community had nothing to do with the leak of the dossier , which BuzzFeed published last Tuesday. BuzzFeed has since been widely castigated for publishing the completely unverified dossier full of bizarre information about Trump\u2019s alleged, scandalous activities in Russia.
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