The premise of the article is false. It says, right in the first paragraph, that "[Western States] at least accept that they will be held accountable by the press and public alike." (By Western States I don't mean states west of the Mississippi river, I mean states of Western European types, description which presumably the US fits.

Alas, the US government seems to have lost that particular element. They seem to think that they will not be held accountable by the press and the public. They may be right too.

I find it most saddening and ironic that a United Kingdom journal is defending the freedom we fought to acquire from the King of England.