The US flies secretive flights in and out of Ireland on a weekly basis - believe me, even my Government has seen pretty extraordinary pressure to step and ask questions about what the flights are in aid of. They're CIA if it matters - came out a while back after a few leaks were sprung.
Things are pretty bad if Ireland, a neutral country, is allowing such carry ons. The government's taken quite a beating over it too. This keeps up someone's going to write the words "neutral nation - no military or CIA flights allowed" into the constitution... Now that would be interesting....
It'll get pretty desperate for the government is anyone discovers so called US prisoners of war were involved...
The internet is so special because it's FREE. No censor.
The US controls the Internet (mostly the connectivity side) - the international community tried to get them to share control. But that didn't go over very well. So long as no red "off" buttons are installed I suppose I can deal with it...
Besides, what gives them ligitimacy to do so?
The citizens of the United States of America. Much as some may dislike it, the US Government was duly elected. Maybe a few years down the line the voting will shift back to a more moderate influence. You know, where the President of the most powerful country in the world does not believe Creationism to be valid science, does not believe ignoring the international community is a good idea, etc. etc.
We can hope, eh?