I guess it's just a show but real militaries conduct much worse atrocities than the what they charged the Director with, I'm surprised anyone actually cared. If they didn't end project freelancer when he literally blew up a skyscraper in the middle of a civilian city, why would they care about what he did to a single A.I unit and a handful of soldiers.

In my opinion they'd probably laud him as a visionary for figuring out a way to make more A.Is from a single one; the process is so arduous and dangerous this would be extremely useful against the Covenant.

In real life we have compatible scenarios. For instance the U.S government hired Nazi scientists and officers to help create the nuclear bomb and future weaponry for warfare. Protecting and taking care of literal monsters to create weapons of mass destruction that killed thousands. It's not like army based science has ever been concerned about morality.

Outside of one mission, most of his damage was done to supposed "insurrection" teams. My only guess is that Hargrove was in charge of the review and purposely turned on him from his own gain. Otherwise I can't imagine the UNSC would care that much when they're trying to do anything to win a war.

From what I've read, Project Freelancer is basically a relatively low cost venture for the UNSC and they pioneered a way to replicate a valuable resource that was too costly to replicate the original way too often.

Especially with everything going into the Spartan projects, they seem to have a general ethos of "cracking a few eggs to make an omelette". Yah he may have gotten a bit too intense with trying to recreate Alison but government loves their genius psychopaths if it's effective.

Like I said the US government used actual Nazis in military research, so the UNSC is probably not much more moral especially when the entirety of the human race is on the line. Not really even a rogue unit, he did what the project's intention was, just bent a few rules.

On an interpersonal level the story is great, but this aspect takes me out a bit. At the end of season 10 the Director should still be in charge of some military unit instead of disgraced and alone realistically.

I'm not justifying his actions, they're awful and selfish. But trying to take the story seriously this is a bit of a stretch imo.