Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in an interview Sunday raised questions about a report that intelligence officials have not been sharing some sensitive information with President Trump.

"In my experience, I have never had intelligence officers who have a responsibility to provide full information to the president and to other leaders in the country ever withhold a piece of intelligence," he said on NBC's "Meet The Press" when asked whether it was believable that the intelligence community is withholding some information from Trump.

"So it's something that certainly hasn't occurred when I was there, and I doubt whether it's happened this time."

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report last week said U.S. intelligence officials have withheld some information from the president over fears it would be compromised or leaked.

According to the report, some information presented to the president omitted sources and methods used by intelligence agencies during their operations.

A White House official said, "There is nothing that leads us to believe that this is an accurate account of what is actually happening."

Panetta said that as an intelligence official, "your first responsibility is to provide the truth to the president."