Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday accused former President Barack Obama Barack Hussein ObamaObama warns of a 'decade of unfair, partisan gerrymandering' in call to look at down-ballot races Quinnipiac polls show Trump leading Biden in Texas, deadlocked race in Ohio Poll: Trump opens up 6-point lead over Biden in Iowa MORE's attorney general, Loretta Lynch, of turning the Justice Department into "an arm of the [Hillary] Clinton campaign."

"What makes it egregious is the fact — and I think it's obvious that it is a fact — that the attorney general of the United States was adjusting the way the department talked about its business so as to coincide with the way the Clinton campaign talked about that business," Mukasey said on Newsmax TV.

"In other words, it made the Department of Justice essentially an arm of the Clinton campaign," said Mukasey, who served as the nation's top law enforcement official under former President George W. Bush.

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In a sweeping testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday, fired FBI Director James Comey claimed that Lynch directed him to refer to the FBI's probe of Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of State as a "matter," as opposed to an investigation.

"At one point, the attorney general had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me," Comey told lawmakers.

He added that the directive was one of several that prompted him to make the unusual move of side-stepping the Justice Department in the July announcement that his bureau closed the Clinton investigation.

"I don’t know whether it was intentional or not, but it gave the impression that the attorney general was looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way a political campaign was describing the same activity, which was inaccurate," he said.