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POW Subject Taboo in Media John LeBoutillier Tonight on Bloomberg TV, former Rep. Bill Hendon — the co-author of the New York Times best seller "An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia" — will appear on Bloomberg's main evening show, Night Talk with Mike Schneider. The hidden story, however, is that, eight weeks after the book was published, this is the first television invitation Hendon or his co-author, MIA daughter and lawyer Beth Stewart, have received. "An Enormous Crime" made the New York Times best seller list a mere eight days after publication — without a penny spent on publication. The two co-authors have blanketed the Talk Radio circuit; and NewsMax.com did a fantastic job publicizing and emailing news about the book. But the so-called mainstream news media, CBS, CNN, NBC, ABC, MSNBC even Fox News Channel, have totally refused to have the authors on any of their shows. What are they afraid of? Why do they not want the public to hear the truth about the abandonment of 700 U.S. POWs in 1973? In light of 155,000 troops today in Iraq, isn't what happened to POWs from another war a relevant subject to discuss? The book is still No. 1 on the Amazan.com Vietnam War list. The Pentagon is still receiving credible reports of U.S. POWs being held in Southeast Asia. "An Enormous Crime" contains satellite imagery, radio intercepts, and scores of human intelligence reports that prove our government knowingly left 700 U.S. POWs behind — alive and held against their will — and that many are still alive. The book is based entirely on 66,000 pages of never-before-published United States government de-classified intelligence reports. So far the U.S. Government has refused to comment on "An Enormous Crime."
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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger refuses to read "An Enormous Crime" stating, "There is nothing new here." Oh, really? How would he know if he won't read it? Can you imagine if one of his Harvard students had refused to read something from the assigned reading list by stating, "There is nothing new here"?
Some of these television producers, when they have declined to have the authors on their shows, say things like, "There is no smoking gun here." Oh, really? The book — and the associated web site www.enormouscrime.com - are full of examples of U.S. POWs trying to communicate that they are still alive and want to be brought home! Satellite and aerial photography, radio intercepts and hundreds of live sighting information are throughout the book — and yet these TV people say there is "no smoking gun." What are they afraid of? Others have told me that these mostly liberal TV people believe "the POW issue is a nutty right wing conspiracy issue." Oh, really? Why would Billy Hendon and I — two of the leading POW activists and both lifelong proud conservative Reagan Republicans — why would we set out to go after our fellow Republicans: Nixon, Kissinger, the first Bush, Cheney, Scowcroft, Wolfowitz, Armitage, Powell and many others?
And almost all the POW activists happen to be Republicans, too. And it saddens us all that we have to go after Republican Administrations for their perfidious activities in this issue. For example, go to www.enormouscrime.com and read the Chapter 23 cover-up section to learn how our Pentagon distorts and debunks report after report of live US POWs still being held in Vietnam and Laos. This issue, more than nay other, illustrates just how rotten our government can be and how lazy and biased the so-called mainstream news media has become. What are they really afraid of? Editor's Note: "An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia" - Get Your Copy Today!
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