President-elect Donald Trump took a new swipe at the intelligence community and a dossier containing unverified allegations about him on Friday morning, blaming both GOP and Democratic detractors for the "made up facts" in the salacious memos.

It now turns out that the phony allegations against me were put together by my political opponents and a failed spy afraid of being sued.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2017

Totally made up facts by sleazebag political operatives, both Democrats and Republicans - FAKE NEWS! Russia says nothing exists. Probably... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2017

The dossier of memos detailing how Russia allegedly sought to gain influence over Trump had been circulating for months among Washington lawmakers and media, but did not surface on a widespread scale until Tuesday night, when CNN broke the story that intelligence officials had provided Trump and President Barack Obama a summary of its contents. BuzzFeed News then published the memos.

The work reportedly was commissioned initially by backers of Trump's rivals for the GOP presidential nomination, and later by supporters of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

On Wednesday, a BBC reporter claimed the person who reportedly compiled the unverified allegations was first working for an opposition research firm on behalf of supporters of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Trump primary rival. Those with ties to Bush vehemently denied the claim, and the BBC said its reporter misspoke.

Trump has denied the dossier's assertions and accused the U.S. intelligence community of leaking the information to the press, prompting Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to issue a rare statement saying he does not believe that is the case.

released by "Intelligence" even knowing there is no proof, and never will be. My people will have a full report on hacking within 90 days! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2017

Although Clapper struck a conciliatory tone, Trump nonetheless again included the intelligence community in his Friday morning Twitter rant, and stated his team would have "a full report on hacking within 90 days." The latter statement was a possible reference to his pledge last week following an intelligence briefing on Russian efforts to influence the November election that he would create a task force charged with developing a plan to fight cyberattacks within 90 days of taking office.

Trump is not the first president to distrust intelligence professionals and harbor suspicions that analysts are operating with a political agenda. But his open criticism of them is highly unusual.

On Wednesday, in accusing intelligence agencies of allowing the dossier's leak, Trump likened them to Nazi Germany. And last week, he called for congressional lawmakers "to investigate top secret intelligence" he said was shared with NBC News before him.

I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2017

Meanwhile, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General said Thursday it would launch a probe into how the FBI handled the investigation into Clinton's use of a private email server.

Clinton campaign members believe FBI Director James Comey's decision to send a letter to Congress notifying lawmakers of additional emails potentially relevant to the Clinton probe just days before the election cost her the White House, and have suggested Comey's handling of the investigation was politically motivated.

On Friday, Trump railed against both Clinton and the FBI, whom he said let the former secretary of state off too easy.



What are Hillary Clinton's people complaining about with respect to the F.B.I. Based on the information they had she should never..... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2017