Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday said the Department of Justice needs to hold “wrongdoers” accountable in testimony about an inspector general’s report that faulted the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

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“B​ased on my 30 years in federal law enfor​cement,” Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee in opening remarks, “there’s nobody who would be more committed to rooting out abuse and misconduct, and there’s credible ​evidence it occurred.”​

“We need to correct errors and hold wrongdoers accountable and deter future violations,” he said in his first public comments about the watchdog report.

​Rosenstein said DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz conducted a thorough investigation “that found some federal bureau employees deviated from important principles in 2016 and 2017.”

​​He mentioned that FBI agents discussed criminal investigations and “encroached” ​on prosecutorial decisions and the IG exposed other behaviors like leaking to the media and political bias.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said the IG report “makes clear that we’ve got important work to do” but that “nothing in this report impugns the integrity of our workforce as a whole or the FBI as an institution.”