I would be inclined to take Wente a  lot more seriously if she also whined about the fact that the USA tortured people in  Gitmo for over a decade, kills people without trial by deploying drones in Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan,  Yemen and Iraq and routinely flaunts the  law in its commitments to war fighting. 

There is no better  evidence of this than the gunship mowing down unarmed Iraqi Journalists (like Wente) and the crew laughing about it the whole time.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/apr/05/wikileaks-us-army-iraq-attack

 

The release of that video from Baghdad  came shortly after the US military admitted that its special forces attempted to cover up the killings of three Afghan women in a raid in February by digging the bullets out of their bodies.