"I can go in there with an actor or director and Rick will tell them, 'This is the kind of gun a criminal would have in 1974,' and I know that will be right".
"Now, suddenly, to give that kind of power to a criminal prosecutor, who is virtually uncontrollable, is dangerous in the separation of powers," he said.
Comey has acknowledged that his approach has no precedent, telling Congress in September that "there's never been this kind of transparency in a criminal case, ever".
Taking us back to Marlowe's world also takes us back to a kind of criminal innocence, a jaded heroism, but heroism nonetheless.
It suggested a kind of criminal intent or an evil that befalls a person, hurled down from above, and he recalled Joel's remark about the curse-worthy nature of the itch, something semi-Biblical.
It has specifically been a struggle waged against the consolidation of government as a kind of criminal syndicate, one maintained by entrenched criminal powers inside and outside government, regardless of who is elected President.
The court heard the organisation operated as a kind of secret criminal cooperative for decades, with all revenue collected and distributed equally among members.
As a security expert, Mr. Rubin said he was concerned about the kinds of mischief that a criminal could carry out by substituting one video image for another.
Wu Heping, a spokesman for the public security ministry, told a news briefing: "Being tolerant of this kind of crazy criminal behaviour is a crime and is irresponsible to millions of people".
A counterpoint to the sociopath genre, Brief takes on a wholly different kind of criminal mindset that of the intellectual criminal, one who knows precisely he or she is doing and does it to prove a point.
