Just days after House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy inadvertently admitted that Republicans created the Select Committee on Benghazi in order to undermine Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, a former investigator on the committee released a statement on Saturday accusing the Republican-led panel of unfairly targeting the Democratic candidate.

Bradley Podliska, an Air Force Reserve major and a former staffer on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, issued a statement claiming that he tried to carry out an objective fact-finding probe, but the GOP shifted its focus towards targeting the former secretary of state for her role in the deadly 2012 attack. He says that Republicans began to redirect resources towards targeting Clinton shortly after it surfaced that she used a private email server while working under the Obama administration.

Podliska also alleged that he was unjustly fired from the panel for promoting an objective investigation into the attack, while congressional Republicans used the panel to focus on Clinton, reports The New York Times.

"My non-partisan investigative work conflicted with the interests of the Republican leadership, who focused their investigation primarily on Secretary Clinton and her aides," Podliska said his statement, according to The Washington Post.

"The families of the Americans who died in the Benghazi attacks deserve to find out the truth about Benghazi, but to do that a thorough, non-partisan investigation must be conducted of all agencies and officials involved in Benghazi," the statement reads.

The intelligence officer also spoke out about the panel during an interview with CNN, where he described himself as a conservative Republican and called the GOP's Benghazi probe "a partisan investigation."

Podliska, who was fired after about 10 months of working as an investigator for the Republican majority, is now planning to file a lawsuit against the Select Committee to seek lost pay and the return of his job.

According to Podliska, committee chairman Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy pulled resources away from probes to focus almost exclusively on Clinton and the State Department she ran.

In response, Rep. Gowdy and the committee "vigorously" denied Podliska's allegations.

"We are confident that the facts and evidence give no support to the wild imagination fueling these and any future allegations, and the Committee will vigorously defend itself against such allegations. The Committee will not be blackmailed into a monetary settlement for a false allegation made by a properly terminated former employee," the committee spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.

In a news release Saturday, the committee also called Podliska's claims "transparently false," stating that he "was terminated for cause." It added that Podliska "was terminated, in part, because he himself manifested improper partiality and animus in his investigative work'' against the Obama administration, including Clinton, the statement said.

Meanwhile, Democrats, who have accused Republicans of prolonging the panel as a means to detract from Clinton's presidential aspirations, declared that the new allegations are proof that their charges are true.

"It's been clear that Secretary Clinton has been the true target of this investigation, and the Republican whistleblower who has come forward only provides further evidence of what has been long evident," Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff, senior Democrat on the Intelligence Committee and a member of the Benghazi panel, said in a statement. "It's time to shut down the Benghazi Select Committee. Even though we all knew from the start that Gowdy and the Republicans created the Benghazi Committee to pursue a political witch-hunt, we had to let them prove it to the American people themselves. There should no longer be any doubt as to why the committee was created."