New Series on Tracking Terrorists Features CIA Lawyer-Turned-Journalist
The star of a controversial new series on NBC featuring journalists tracking down accused war criminals and terrorists is a former CIA lawyer.
Adam Ciralsky became an NBC producer after leaving the CIA in a dispute with his supervisors, the New York Observer reports. Now he is billed as the star of the new show set to debut on Monday called The Wanted.
Ciralsky works with a counterterrorism expert, a former Navy Seal and a former U.S. intelligence official to find those who remain free despite having been accused of terrorism and war crimes, the Associated Press reports. Critics say the show blurs the line between journalists and government agents, putting international journalists at risk of charges that they are working with the U.S. military, the New York Times reports.
The former intelligence official is David Crane, a former chief prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone and a law professor with Syracuse University, the Post-Standard reports.
Crane was originally asked to serve as an adviser to the show, but he later became more involved. “I fell backward into show business,” he told the Post-Standard. “It’s not something I ever thought I would do.”
