A Really Dark Alliance

Roxanne directs us to this excellent story in the L.A. Times about reporter Gary Webb. Webb , who committed suicide in 2004, wrote a series of stories about the CIA’s connections with Nicaraguans who were dealing drugs north of the border. What followed his reporting was “one of the most bizarre, unseemly and ultimately tragic scandals in the annals of American journalism, one in which top news organizations closed ranks to debunk claims Webb never made, ridicule assertions that turned out to be true and ignore corroborating evidence when it came to light.” Definitely a must-read.