John Brennan blasts Trump as 'repugnant' for suggesting intelligence community leaked Russia dossier

Outgoing CIA director John Brennan can easily brush off Donald Trump taking a dig at him — but when it comes to insulting the entire agency, Brennan is less forgiving.

The soon-to-be ex-intelligence chief on Monday modestly denounced Trump's recent suggestion that he could be the leak of an unverified 35-page dossier that claims Russia has been gathering sexually "perverted" information on the President-elect for years in order to blackmail him into obedience.

"Was I a leaker of this? No," Brennan told the Wall Street Journal during an interview at the agency's Virginia headquarters, referring to Trump on Sunday asking of him over Twitter: "Was this the leaker of Fake News?"

Brennan said that a healthy dose of skepticism from an incoming President is valid and even necessary, adding "We don't expect our information and our assessments to be swallowed whole."

But when Trump compared the U.S. intelligence community to Nazi Germany, the CIA head saw red.

"Tell the families of those 117 CIA officers who are forever memorialized on our wall of honor that their loved ones who gave their lives were akin to Nazis," Brennan said. "Tell the CIA officers who are serving in harm's way right now and their families who are worried about them that they are akin to Nazi Germany. I found that to be very repugnant, and I will forever stand up for the integrity and patriotism of my officers who have done much over the years to sacrifice for their fellow citizens."

Brennan denied the notion that somebody within the intelligence community leaked the document, noting "this is not intelligence community information." 

The Trump transition team did not immediately return a request for comment from the Daily News on Brennan's remarks.

Brennan claimed he still hasn't actually read the scathing dossier published last week, noting that it was the FBI — not the CIA — that briefed Trump on its existence.

"The feeling was wanting to make sure that given the very salacious nature of it, the President-elect was at least aware of it so he could take it into account and do what needs to be done," Brennan said of the document, which is believed to have been compiled by ex-MI6 agent Christopher Steele.

After receiving the Jan. 6 briefing, Trump remained mum for weeks, only to lash out against both the intelligence community and the press once the dossier began taking over the mainstream news cycles last week.

Prior to the dossier's publication, Trump was already being widely criticized for refusing to accept the U.S. intelligence community's consensus that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help him win the White House.