CIA Director John Brennan on Sunday criticized President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE for comments likening the actions of the intelligence community to those of Nazis.

"What I do find outrageous is equating intelligence community with Nazi Germany," Brennan said on "Fox News Sunday."

"I 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."

The president-elect last week blasted intelligence agencies after it was reported that Trump had been briefed on an unverified dossier alleging Russia had compromising information on him.

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"Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to 'leak' into the public," the president-elect tweeted.

"One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?"

At a press conference last week, the president-elect said it was "disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out."