© EVAN VUCCI/APPresident-elect Donald Trump wants to trim the country's top spy agencies, according to a report.
Trump made the extraordinary call on January 6 shortly before his own scheduled briefing with top U.S. intelligence officials about the report.
"I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it," Trump wrote on Twitter.
There was no immediate response from congressional leaders, Democrat or Republican. Many lawmakers have endorsed the conclusions of intelligence agencies that Russia-government backed hackers stole e-mails from U.S. political organizations.
Trump has repeatedly voiced skepticism about those conclusions.
The e-mails are widely seen as having damaged Trump's Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, after they were published by WikiLeaks and others ahead of the November 8 election.
The NBC News report on January 5 cited two unnamed intelligence officials reportedly involved in preparing the report ordered by President Barack Obama.
NBC News reported that the intelligence document concludes, among other things, that the hacks were payback for the Obama administration's questioning of Vladimir Putin's legitimacy as Russia's president.
Comment: Contrary to what may readers of the MSM think, these types of "disclosures" from anonymous intelligence officials are often psyops directed at the American people. No accountability. No need for evidence. It's also illegal, but when did that ever stop the CIA? In this case, assuming the contents are as described, it still amounts to a politicized 'leak' designed to smear Trump, Russia, and the possibility of cooling the New Cold War tensions being stoked and provoked by the CIA and their allies.