After making a big story with the usual hysterical noises about an "apparent hate crime", NBC News now reports:

"George Washington University officials said a Jewish student who complained about [Nazi] swastikas showing up on her door put them there herself." -- NBC 4 Washington

This shows how easily the flawed logic of "hate crimes" can be exploited, especially by its chief proponents, to achieve their own goals of fear and intimidation.

UPDATE: Responding to a protest led by "civil rights" hustler Al Sharpton, who is still savoring the publicity from the recent "Jena 6" fiasco, Attorney General Michael Mukasey has vowed to crack down on "hate crimes".