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(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said Wednesday that if someone knows he’s innocent of conspiring with Russia to interfere with the election and that people at the Justice Department hate him, that person is not obstructing justice, he’s pursuing justice, and the fact that Mueller dragged out the Russia investigation for two years shows Mueller was perpetuating injustice.



“So you also note in the report that an element of any of those obstructions you referenced requires a corrupt state of mind, correct?” Gohmert asked Special Counsel Robert Mueller at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Russia investigation’s findings.





“Corrupt intent, correct,” Mueller replied.



“Right, and if somebody knows they did not conspire with anybody from Russia to affect the election, and they see the big Justice Department with people that hate that person coming after them, and then a special counsel appointed who hires dozen or more people that hate that person, and he knows he’s innocent, he’s not corruptly acting in order to see that justice is done. What he’s doing is not obstructing justice, he is pursuing justice, and the fact that you ran it out two years, means you perpetrated injustice,” Gohmert said.





Gohmert asked Mueller who wrote the speech he read at the May 29th press conference, but Mueller refused to say who wrote it.



The congressman also questioned Mueller about his friendship with former FBI Director James Comey and whether he anticipated investigating any potential obstruction of justice in Trump firing Comey.



Mueller said he “can’t get into that” and cited “FBI internal deliberations in the Justice Department.”



Gohmert asked Mueller when he knew about former FBI agent Peter Strzok’s “animus towards the president” and whether he discovered it before Strozk was made part of Mueller’s team. The congressman also asked when Mueller learned about Strozk’s extramarital affair with FBI attorney Lisa Page and whether he ever ordered an investigation into the deletion of the pair’s text messages from government cell phones.