You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way Journalists Blow

reason.com via Instapundit

Remember back in what was it - 2006 or thereabouts - when left-leaning critics of President Bush couldn't stop talking about how nothing was more red, white, and blue than good old-fashioned American dissent?

The gist of the meaning of the title is that journalists should be screaming bloody murder, but aren't.  The issue is accountability--- both in the presidency and the media.   There isn't any now, but there was before, when Bush was president.

The Obama administration claims that the secret judgment of a single "well-informed high level administration official" meets the demands of due process and is sufficient justification to kill an American citizen suspected of working with terrorists. That procedure is entirely secret. Thus it's impossible to know which rules the administration has established to protect due process and to determine how closely those rules are followed. The government needs the approval of a judge to detain a suspected terrorist. To kill one, it need only give itself permission. [ emphasis added]

A man cannot be a judge of his own case. That should include the president.  If he is the judge of his own case, he is a dictator.  There has to be means of determining whether the president is following the law, or not.

The president doesn't have the power to judge this on his own.  The Constitution doesn't grant that authority.