[SkyPilot]

The opinion pieces have all along been "justification," Trump is morally and ethically unfit to be president.

That will be the narrative.

"Look, we are PROUD of what we did Alex. We HAD to. Trump is a maniac, and morally unfit for the Presidency. He puts us ALL in danger! He is a menace to the Entire World! So we had to put a spy in his campaign, but it was all based on factual intelligence that he was colluding with the Russians. Hillary, whatever her little petty little shortcuts to the law and protocol, HAD to be protected so that she could defeat this utter monster - Donald J. Trump. We would do it all again, for the children, and for the American People!"

[Cboldt]

Same writ large as writ small. Ends justify the means, and laws are MEANT to be selectively applied. Similar principle involved in living constitution and all the other routine shenanigans perptrated by assorted actors in the press, academia, politics, schools and churches.

It's all outcome-driven reasoning. Outcome first, reasoning/justification second.