According to a report in the New York Times (2/11/09), NBC is launching a new series to track down and expose war criminals. The network’s planhas attracted some criticism from U.S. officials and human rights experts, who are concerned that the network’s journalists might be publicizing false accusations against the suspects they’re “confronting” on the air. (The show sounds eerily similar to the network’s To Catch a Predator series, whichpurported to bustsexual predators.)
The first suspect is apparently Leopold Munyakazi, a visiting professor at a Maryland college who has been accused by Rwandan authorities of participating in the 1994 genocide in that country; a Human Rights Watch official is quoted in the article saying that the case against Munyakazi is actually somewhat murky.
If NBC is actually interesting in exposing war crimes, though, there might be an easier way to do this. Couldn’t they just invite Henry Kissinger to appear on Meet the Press, and then “surprise” him?
Gee willikers … excuse me for stating the literally bleeding obvious, but you could close your eyes and press your finger to a list of current and former US foreign policy officials and military officers (including presidents, veeps and other White House cabalites, of course), and the odds of hitting an honest-to-evilness war criminal are damn good, aren’t they?
Yes…Kissinger is the place to start. We don’t need to go abroad to find war criminals when our outgoing administration is full of them.
Kissinger knows where all the bodies are buried too….he is a GOOD place to start.
Absolutely! This is brilliant! Bush, Cheny, the whole damn crowd, in addition to being odious war criminals, they are also media whores of the first order. Look at Cheny for instance. He just can’t keep his mouth shut. His recent comments that we are just marking time until another attack, this time with Chem/Bio/nuclear weapons for the simple reason that Obama doesn’t scare the terrorists like Bush did ‘speaks for itself’. These pathetic fools are like hothouse plants that wither and die without constant exposure to cameras and lights to spew their half baked idiocies. One round of Sunday Morning political blab fests and ‘Whamo’, they’re all behind bars. If only Tim Russert were alive to see it.