Possible Clues:

• Justified
• Called for
• Justified military action – spoke violently
• Justified, conflict with editor following angry tirade
• Justified state of conflict and spoke angrily
• Justified conflict with journalist after verbal attack
• Justified, as a fugitive may be, to pen article on rights
• Justified having got angry after conflict
• Justify a certain course of action when the editor gets a summons
• Guaranteed we'd have an out-and-out admission