(CNN) Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton urged Congress to thoroughly and fairly follow up on the Mueller report -- while simultaneously advancing non-Mueller-related legislation central to Democrats' platform -- in a Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday.

In light of special counsel Robert Mueller's team not exonerating Trump of criminal conduct in its recently released report, Clinton argued that the debate over Congress holding President Donald Trump accountable has "been reduced to a false choice: immediate impeachment or nothing." She cautioned against a rush to impeachment saying, "History suggests there's a better way to think about the choices ahead."

Clinton pointed to the "many unanswered questions" in the Mueller report and Attorney General William Barr's redactions, calling on both Republicans and Democrats to pursue the answers using the report as a "road map."

"Whether they like it or not, Republicans in Congress share the constitutional responsibility to protect the country," she wrote, adding, "It's up to members of both parties to see where that road map leads — to the eventual filing of articles of impeachment, or not. Either way, the nation's interests will be best served by putting party and political considerations aside and being deliberate, fair and fearless."

This should take the form of Congress holding "substantive hearings that build on the Mueller report and fill in its gaps" featuring key players such as Mueller and former White House counsel Don McGahn, Clinton added.

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