As her husband mulled Rice s plea to unmask the names by lowering security clearances Jarrett s friend told Klein Most of the time he had to choose between the lesser of two evils This was an example of such a dilemma It was clearly unethical to use illegal leaks to sabotage Trump But Barack could argue that it was his patriotic to duty to draw attention to the possibility that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians to influence the outcome of an American election 