Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.), co-chairman of the moderate Tuesday Group, said the political fallout from the last week “will make it difficult” for Republicans to resist creating some sort of independent investigative body.

Dent said he does not like independent prosecutors because they “tend to take on a life of their own” and instead preferred an independent commission of outside experts.

“We may have to move in that direction,” Dent said Wednesday at a forum moderated by Center Forward, a moderate Democratic organization.