>>If he seduced them and videoed them in order to
>>blackmail them into getting information for him,
>>then he was doing his job.
Certainly the Soviets would have agreed with you.
Not a very honorable "job", regardless. Such behavior undermines the very ends of that which it pretends to be a means of achieving: "TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - governments are instituted among men..."
Some words these "patriots", if that is even what they think they are, would do well to reflect upon:
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. "
--President George Washington's farewell address, 1796
During WW2, we were willing to drop bombs on enemy cities, blowing up or incinerating whole civilian populations, including women, children, and babies.
During the Cold War, if attacked, we were willing to respond with enough nukes to incinerate half the world.
Against our current enemies, I am willing to be as ruthless as is needed to protect American citizens from another 9/11 (or worse).