Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan went ballistic on Donald Trump on Monday for comparing US intelligence activities to those of Nazi Germany.

“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,” Brennan told the Wall Street Journal (paywall).

“I will forever stand up for the integrity and patriotism of my officers.”

Last week, Trump suggested that the intelligence community was behind the leak of a sordid report about him, wondering, “Are we living in Nazi Germany?”