Apple CEO Tim Cook said he is “deeply offended” by how the government is behaving toward him and his company, he said in an interview released Thursday, adding that it feels like a “bad dream.”

Cook made the remarks in an interview with Time regarding the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s effort to compel the company to assist it in accessing an Apple iPhone used by terrorists in California’s December attack. Cook complained about the FBI’s failure to communicate with him, in spite of the company’s effort to help before a court order was issued.