Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., called for a select committee to investigate the FBI's "dirty tricks and political activities," bitterly lashing out Thursday at special counsel Robert Mueller for dragging out the year-old Russia probe.
Issa slammed Mueller's year-old investigation of possible collusion by the campaign of President Donald Trump with Russia during the election.
"What we've discovered really is after a year of looking for some wrongdoing by the Trump campaign, they haven't found it, and yet they aren't looking at the very blatant wrongdoing by the FBI leading up to that, including the very premise of this investigation being nothing more than a dirty trick operation out of Hillary Clinton and the DNC," Issa charged to Fox News' "America's Newroom" and posted on Facebook. "That's what we now know.
"It is time to have an investigation of the underpinnings of this investigation. Obviously, I join with [Trump lawyer] Rudy Giuliani in saying that you know after a year they ought to print what they have and, if they have nothing, admit it."
Issa said Congress needs to investigate what has led up to this point.
"What we need is a Select Committee in Congress to find out just how deep and dirty the FBI and Department of Justice was in the eight years leading up to this administration," he said.
"It is pretty darn clear that the FBI has gone back to the dirty tricks and political activities that they were known for under J. Edgar Hoover. That concerns me, and it should concern all Americans and people of both parties."
But he delivered his most personal and blistering attack on Mueller himself.
"I think he will drag this on for quite frankly political purposes and sort of because this is him returning to the glory that he had as the FBI director," Issa charged. "I think it's irresistible to him."
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