If the US Defence Department is crap they should be grateful to people who demonstrate that to be the case, and who inform them - in this case by putting up a message to that effect.

As for the UK Government, what else would you expect from a loyal satellite? Look at the other current case where the UK has been desperately trying to avoid annoying Washington by ceasing to collude in suppressing evidence indicating that a British resident on trial in Guantanamo, facing the death sentence, was viciously tortured to produce a "confession"?