Bang. You're a smoking gun.
"But, indeed, the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed forever, it may be thrown back for centuries."
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Sometimes shedding a little light into the darkness reveals terrible things.
Let me make something perfectly clear: we are the United States of America, and we are supposed to be the good guys. As Ronald Reagan once suggested, we are the folks wearing the White Hats, and we should be held to a higher moral standard. If this means that we sometimes must fight with one hand tied behind our back, then so be it. We can not use the tools and techniques of our enemies to fight them, because to do so is to become them. We need to seize the high moral ground precisely because we are more capable than our foes. We need to take the hard road, if only to demonstrate that we are a people of honor.
Part of that path will involve some painful self-examination. Mistakes were made. Sometimes the truth hurts, but we have to face it in order to begin redressing those wrongs against ourselves and others.