integrity of our prosecution system and of our criminal justice system. it is drilled into every prosecutor who is working on a case that touches public figures not to take an action in the window before an election or in any way that could shape the election. this was so obvious that in 2008 george w. bush's attorney general, mike b wrote a memo to prosecutors at the department of justice saying, warning them against this. and in 2012, barack obama's attorney general, eric holder, simply took the same memo, put his name at the top and reissued it virtually verbatim. this is something that goes beyond politics. it's something that every prosecutor considers because no prosecutor wants to be in the position of james comey and having to ask later in his member eye memb memoirs, gee, did i somehow