JMHO, any DS'er tries to use that "wiggle room" may find his butt on the carpet in front of an EXTREMELY unhappy supervisor, if not POTUS himself.
DJT may not have been in the active military, but he can certainly do an all-star impression of any PO'd E-7 I ever saw....
(As commonly held in Navy circles, "If the Chief ain't happy, ain't nobody goin' to be happy.")
The difference is that the “chiefs” that the DS criminals in DOJ answer to are not the President and the AG. Their organization is a shadow government led by people who are not elected.