A House Republican says he didn’t mean to imply that both FBI investigators he unmasked by name in a congressional hearing were among five unidentified agents cited for pro-Clinton, anti-Trump bias by the Justice Department inspector general in his recently released report on the Clinton email investigation.

IG Michael Horowitz said he did not name the politically biased investigators in his report because the FBI said they worked in counterintelligence and requested he protect their identities.

However, Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, who heads a House Oversight subcommittee, argued the FBI was wrong to ask Horowitz to conceal their identities, because not all of them work in counterintelligence.

“But they don’t work in counterintelligence,” said in a June 19 exchange with Horowitz. “If that’s the reason the FBI is giving, they’re giving you false information, because they work for the general counsel.”

Meadows then named Kevin Clinesmith and Sally Moyer as two examples, and his staff later confirmed they were among the five unidentified FBI investigators in the IG report.

Dozens of media outlets reported the names, including the Post. However, Moyer’s lawyer insists she is not one of the biased five and “has not been referred for investigation.”

Adding to the confusion is that Moyer, who does work in the general counsel’s office, is mentioned throughout the IG report as a senior FBI investigator on the Clinton probe who made key and controversial decisions in the case. Clinesmith, who in fact was referred by Horowitz for bias review, worked as a second, more junior lawyer on Moyer’s team.

Clinesmith is “FBI Attorney 2” in the report, while Moyer is, in fact, “FBI Attorney 1,” which is not listed as one of the agents or lawyers cited for bias or referred for investigation.

Meadows’ office says it regrets the “misinterpretation.”