Inside Berat Buzhala’s Media Playbook Against the Hague Court

We place the transcript beside Nacionale’s claims and expose how Berat Buzhala’s newsroom replaces facts with suggestion to erode trust in courts and prosecutors.

What follows is a media watch fact check by the Gunpowder Chronicles newsroom. We are not arguing tone. We are not trading opinions. We are doing the most basic job a newsroom can do when another outlet claims to be reporting from a transcript. We are placing the article next to the record¹ and checking whether the story survives contact with what was actually said.

Nacionale published a piece² suggesting that Jack Smith’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee exposed something suspect about his work, his meetings with senior United States justice officials, and his past role at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague. The article relies on insinuation rather than evidence, and it repeatedly nudges the reader toward conclusions that are not supported by the transcript. We are debunking it point by point, in plain language, by reading the deposition the way it is meant to be read.

This matters because in a small and politically saturated media ecosystem like Kosovo’s, insinuation does real damag…