SARATOGA SPRINGS - After two days of apologies, prosecutor-turned-Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday criticized as “purely partisan” a call for more investigation into his administration's misuse of state police against a political opponent.

The target of the tracking by state police, Republican Senate leader Joseph Bruno, insisted the public needs to know if Spitzer was involved in the plot that has resulted in one top aide suspended and another about to be reassigned.

“I believe for the first time in the history of this state, an executive - the governor's office - has seen fit to abuse the power of that office to spy and track and attempt to really destroy what apparently the governor's office considers a political rival,” Bruno told reporters Wednesday.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's report released Monday concluded that Spitzer Communications Director Darren Dopp and William Howard, assistant deputy for public safety, compiled and created records with the direct involvement of the acting superintendent of state police to show Bruno used state aircraft on days he attended Republican fundraisers in New York City. Dopp and Howard planned to release the records to the media, the report concluded.

In the investigation, Secretary to the Governor Rich Baum and Dopp refused to be interviewed by attorney general's office investigators, who did not have subpoena power to compel testimony. Baum and Dopp submitted brief written statements, but didn't mention Spitzer. Howard was interviewed.

Baum and Dopp both served as senior advisers to Spitzer during his two terms as attorney general where the Democrat earned the nickname “The Sheriff of Wall Street” for forcing reforms of conflicts of interest in the financial and insurance industries.

“If there are cover-ups, the public has a right to know what has been covered up,” Bruno said. The Senate Committee on Investigations has begun a review and could investigate, using subpoenas that could be issued to the governor, Bruno said.