The best analogy I have read was "what if the Watergate burglars and Nixon had said the following to the media after the break-in hit the news"?

"Good evening my fellow Americans, the Nixon FBI and the intelligence services, acting on intelligence, found that the Democrats were colluding with the Soviets to steal the election". "My team went in to get surveillance to prove this, and were unfortunately caught by a security guard". Proving their harmless intent, these professional and trained men surrendered". "These men are heroes, Eugene McCarthy had long ties with Breshnev, and they plotted to unseat the sitting President."