was propping up and negroponte would send back these reports to the to the state department that made these death squads in the words of one human rights analyst who studied the situation at the time look like you know sort of glowing human rights reports from geneva switzerland and so negroponte really was one of the key figures in that bush era but you fast forward to the present and some of these same policies that we saw really flourish in a devastating violent way in iraq being continued under the obama administration you know interesting in your film you identify an incident card dead is in afghanistan as a catalyzing moment for you what happened what was the catalyst yeah you know tom i mean i've been covering these u.s. wars actually since the last time we had a democratic president in power i started off in journalism when bill clinton was president and covered the war in yugoslavia covered the undeclared war in iraq that took form and to the took place in the form of economic sanctions and these so-called no fly zone bombings and when i went to afghanistan though with rick r

>> nick negroponte i've worked on, the darker, the tougher the subject matter, the more likely it isit, to balance it out. >> how did you prepare for the role of this guy? >> well i mean first of all obviously all the hannibal lecter stories come from the novels. i recommend to anybody that hasn't read them. >> that has the stomach for them. >> anybody who likes good writing, he has a fantastic character. will graham pops up in "red dragon" the first novel. so i went to that. >> you know as i was watching this this morning, you probably didn't know at the time you started this project, we just had in the news here in new york a true story, the man was finally, he was found guilty. the cannibal cop. and i have to ask you, if you feel in some way, that by us highlighting these kinds of things, are we in any way contributing to the culture of violence? >> the rise of cannibalism? >> no, i don't mean it that way. are we glorifying in any way something that is the least deserving of it? i mean that with great respect. >> i think it's a good question, actually. i think that speaking person