The Bogotá Connection

Narco News Investigates DEA Corruption and Cover-Up in Colombia

Gammel, men god: IS ANYONE APOLOGIZING TO GARY WEBB?

Gary Webbs historie viser hvordan US-media kan behandle sine journalister, om de - måtte gudene forby - skulle finne på å gjøre jobben sin. Webb tok sitt eget liv i 2004.

Det finnes mange gode grunner til å ikke være altfor sint på journalister…

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Michael Levine: IS ANYONE APOLOGIZING TO GARY WEBB?

Gary Webb, just in case you’ve already forgotten him, was the journalist who, in a well researched, understated article entitled “The Dark Alliance,” linked the CIA supported Contras to cocaine and weapons being sold to a California street gang and ended up literally being hounded out of journalism by every mainstream news peddling organization in the Yellow Pages. Even his own employer The San Jose Mercury piled on for the kill.

And guess what? The CIA finally admitted, yesterday, in the New York Times no less, that they, in fact, did “work with” the Nicaraguan Contras while they had information that they
were involved in cocaine trafficking to the United States. …

… CIA is provably (and now admittedly) responsible for much larger scale drug trafficking than Webb alleged or even imagined in his report.