Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., slammed the intelligence community Wednesday for forcing the cancelation of a planned House Intelligence Committee briefing on alleged Russian interference in the U.S. election. 

“All weve heard from the intelligence community over the last several months is that they could not say that there was any attempt to undermine Hillary Clinton [or] to help Donald Trump,” King told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on “The Kelly File.” “The consensus was that there was an attempt by the Russians to put a cloud over the election, to create disunity. Well, thats whats happening right now, but its the intelligence community thats doing it.”

King spoke hours after the committee abruptly canceled the scheduled Thursday briefing after the CIA declined to provide a briefer. 

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“Somebody has the time to leak it to the Washington Post and the New York Times, but they dont have the time to come to Congress,” said King, a member of the committee. “Its their job to come. They dont have any choice. They have to come in, especially when they have created this.”

King added that lawmakers have not received any assessment from the CIA that Russia interfered to help Trump win the presidency over Hillary Clinton, allegations that were first reported by the Washington Post Friday.

“There was nothing at all, ever told to us, in fact they said they couldnt prove it, that there was an attempt to favor one candidate over the other. [James] Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said that publicly on Nov. 17,” King told Kelly.

“This violates all protocols and its almost as if people in the intelligence community are carrying out a disinformation campaign against the president-elect of the United States,” the congressman added. “Its absolutely disgraceful and if theyre not doing it, then it must be someone in the House or the Senate whos leaking false information and there should be a full investigation of this.”

“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the CIA are great,” King concluded. “Theres somebody here, though, thats behind something thats totally irresponsible.”