Jack had thought his cooperation would be assumed. When Max began counting votes and came around to him, he nodded. "Hardly the first time I've operated on the wrong side of the law," he said. Sh knew that better than anyone in this room. His morality was flexible in some respects, but not in others. He could understand why Jackson was angry and jumpy and Hadley was reticent. He knew he didn't have the things to lose that some people did, or the reasons they might have to hesitate in the face of lawlessness and defiance against a massive intelligence organization. "Can't say that I much care about that aspect. The body bags at the facility. They matter."
Par for the course with him - the dead were of import, where the letter of the law was not.