Our government does stuff like that all the time. There’s agents that infiltrate drug cartels, terror organizations, foreign governments. There’s always a high level of risk when going after people like that. These missions and operations are hard to defend but in a lot of cases it takes a lot of risk to get to the target.
Eric Holder nor Obama ever needed a lawyer while in office.
This is because the justice department looked the other way on a whole host of issues.