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The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, is denouncing leaks to the media about a briefing President-elect Donald Trump received last week.

In a statement, Clapper said he had spoken late Wednesday with Trump and assured him that the intelligence community "stands ready to serve his administration."

"I expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press, and we both agreed that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security," Clapper said of last week's briefing.

Clapper further described a private unsubstantiated report that Russia has compromising, salacious material on Trump as something that should be looked at with intense skepticism.

"I emphasized that this document is not a U.S. Intelligence Community product and that I do not believe the leaks came from within the IC," Clapper said. "The IC has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions."

Clapper's statement comes amid growing strains between Trump and the spy world. The president-elect has been resistant to U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help him win.

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