Reiterating his rebuke of the Justice Department's appointment of a special counsel, civil liberties legal expert Alan Dershowitz called the move a "mistake" in lieu of "a non-partisan, independent commission."
"I think it was a mistake to appoint a special counsel," Dershowitz told ABC News' "This Week." "They should have appointed a non-partisan independent commission, like 9/11, to find out how this election went wrong, and it went wrong in so many different ways.
"This was one of the worst elections in modern history – with Russian attempts to influence, other attempts by Gulf countries to influence, the existence of FBI agents trying desperately to turn the election away from Trump."
Dershowitz and ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams debated the "evidence" the FBI "was trying to turn the election from Trump," and Dershowitz pushed we need to define the laws of foreign influence in elections through a non-partisan, independent commission.
"We should have had a massive investigation, and then we should change the laws to make it clear what you can do and what you can't do," Dershowitz said. "I don't think this investigation has gotten us what we need to know: knowledge and information about how to prevent this in the future."
Dershowitz deflected the notion fired FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller had been "long-term Republicans."
"They're long-term Republicans who hated [President Donald] Trump," Dershowitz said. ". . . You really wonder about the objectivity of the investigation."
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