Codevilla addresses the new reality of the Deep State justifying extra-legal activities based on bureaucratic authority
https://amgreatness.com/2019/12/18/for-whom-the-new-rules/
His point is if the Deep State agents who committed these crimes aren’t punished then the Republicans will have to embrace the same tactics purely out of self defense. That is the same slippery slope that led the Romans to dictatorship.