A defiant ex-FBI Director James Comey responded to a scathing Justice Department report released Thursday, bizarrely claiming vindication despite being found to have purposely leaked details of private conversations with President Trump without authorization.

“DOJ IG ‘found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media.’ I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a ‘sorry we lied about you’ would be nice,” Comey tweeted, referring to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on his actions following conversations with Trump.

“And to all those who’ve spent two years talking about me ‘going to jail’ or being a ‘liar and a leaker’ —ask yourselves why you still trust people who gave you bad info for so long, including the president,” he added in a second tweet.

The IG’s office said that while Comey did not leak classified info, he did break FBI rules by giving a memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a New York Times reporter.

Comey also failed to notify the FBI after he was canned by Trump in May 2017 that he had kept some of the memos he wrote summarizing their conversations in a safe at home, the IG said.

But Horowitz also found Comey set a bad example, writing, “[W]ere current or former FBI employees to follow the former Director’s example and disclose sensitive information in service of their own strongly held personal convictions, the FBI would be unable to dispatch its law enforcement duties properly, as Comey himself noted in his March 20, 2017 congressional testimony.”

And he also noted, “Comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a Special Counsel, which he told us was his goal in making the disclosure. What was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome.”