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In a matter of hours, Trump responded with a two-tweet outburst questioning whether the CIA director had leaked a recent unsubstantiated dossier to the media. The dossier claims that Russia had gathered compromising personal information about Trump.Brennan's response mush be a joke. The CIA was practically stocked full of literal Nazis after WWII (chief among them, Reinhard Gehlen, not to mention Allen "Never Met a Nazi I Didn't Like" Dulles)!
"Just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes," Trump wrote on Twitter. "Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?"
On January 11, the day after the dossier was released by BuzzFeed, Trump also said on Twitter that intelligence agencies "should never have allowed this fake news to 'leak'" before asking, "Are we living in Nazi Germany?"
The BuzzFeed publication triggered a week of finger-pointing between Trump and intelligence leadership. On Fox News, Brennan said Trump's reference to Nazi Germany was an insult to US intelligence officers.
"What I do find outrageous is equating an intelligence community with Nazi Germany," he said. "I do take great umbrage at that, and there is no basis for Mr. Trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking information that was already available publicly."
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