I like someone's fic (Leda? Daphnaea?) that has a scene where she comes back and Adama is in a hospital bed, recovering from the shooting, and he asks why she did it and she says something like "I did it to make what you said the truth." And then the prose says something about I think from Lee's POV, only Kara rationalizing an act of mutiny as a demonstration of loyalty. (I'm butchering the prose--but don't have time to find it right now--but I really thought that was an interesting motivation to ascribe, similar to what you say here.)