>>9225040 (PB)
>Now under the long-standing standards of the department, criminal charges are appropriate only when we have enough evidence to prove each element of a crime beyond a reasonable doubt. That is the standard we're applying. Now I have a general idea of how Mr Durham's investigation is going and as I've indicated some aspects of the matter are being examined as potential crimes. But we have to bear in mind with the Supreme Court recently reminded us of in the Bridgegate case. The Court said that there's a difference between an abuse of power and a federal crime. Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.
I tried to explain to people that they'd use the Bridgegate case to get all the power players off.