Good thing HRC won't be Dem nominee when Gary Webb movie comes out soon.

[blm]

For those unaware of Webb, he was a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter who wrote about the CIA drugrunning operation of Poppy Bush's in a 1996 series in the San Jose Mercury News - a report that caused official DC, under the control of the Clinton administration at the time, to actively close rank around Poppy, protecting his secrecy and privilege over the truth of the historic record in that IranContra related operation.

When this movie about Webb comes out, I wonder how much of the film will cover the ongoing protection of GHWBush on his operations that saw the dumping of tons of cheap IranContra cocaine into cities across America and specifically targeting black communities, triggering the crack epidemic of the 80s that has continued to plague this country for two decades now.

I think Americans will be appalled when they begin to hear what was done in THEIR name by past administrations and by their protectors in the national media - in this case official DC in 1996 used the NYT, the Wa Post and the LA Times to mislead the public.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003785696


>>>>>
Webb was a prominent investigative reporter for the Mercury News when the paper published his series on CIA involvement in the crack epidemic in 1996. After the package ran, other news outlets began to criticize the work and attempt to poke holes in much of Webb's theory.

Eventually, his editors also found fault in the series, ran an apologetic editor's note, and demoted Webb to a suburban beat. He quit the paper in 1997, spending several years in a series of non-journalism jobs before taking up with an alternative weekly in Sacramento, Ca., in 2004.

But just months after starting at that paper, he was found dead from two gunshot wounds to the head in his home. It was ruled a suicide.

Since the series ran, and Webb's death, critics have continued to question his work and claim some of his reporting was off. But many others, including former colleagues and author Schou, contend he was unfairly treated and that his series was a good piece of journalism that exposed CIA misdeeds.
>>>>>

"We are once again making these deals with the Devil," Landesman said about today's government and CIA activities. "Gary had stumbled on something. Webb discovered this massive industry at the time that dove-tailed with the very thing our government wanted to snuff out with a war on drugs."

He said the fact that other news outlets took such harsh shots at Webb is also part of the story. "The New York Times, The Washington Post and the L.A Times came after Webb in a way that was deeply personal and politically agenda-ized and systematically destroyed him and his story," he said. "Webb had the audacity to report it like any other story, not understanding what the ramifications would be."
>>>>>>>>>

[Larkspur]

1. Sounds like a Rev. Wright conspiracy theory

Truth can be stranger than fiction.

[Leopolds Ghost]

60. When the movie comes out, Clinton and her supporters will ask for a 2-minutes hate on Webb

Like they did on Wright.

[blm]

97. Nah - they'll have their operatives continue to smear Webb as a fantasist, just as they have

the last 10 years.

[redqueen]

2. Wonder if it ties the "War on Drugs" to the "War on Terror".

[blm]

4. It absolutely does. Does anyone believe Poppy Bush woke up one day in 1993 and decided to STOP

running drugs, dealing illegal arms, and facilitating illegal nuclear proliferation to manipulate oil region politics, just because he was no longer waking up in the WH?

[redqueen]

8. I saw some comedian saying that Bin Laden really hit the towers

cause the CIA & our "War on Drugs" were cuttin into his heroin profits.

Funny stuff.

[Leopolds Ghost]

61. Why does US-occupied Afghanistan produce 75% of the world's heroin?

Because, as a blogger who worked for military intelligence insisted
on an election website 4 years ago, THAT IS HOW COVERT FUNDING WORKS.

He said drugs are the only usable currency, they are easier to smuggle
than diamonds, and "the drugs are going to get to the users with or
without our help." This was a recently retired guy who worked military
intelligence in Southeast Asia. A DEMOCRAT, arguing with DEMOCRATS
on an election blog about why these revelations were NOT important.

[blm]

66. THANK YOU. Those who pretend this isn't happening to keep their faith in the Clintons are

just too silly to be believed, at this point.

[AntiFascist]

81. One problem is the public thinks that the government is fighting the drug trade...

When the DEA is cooperating with it, and intelligence agencies are growing fat off of the profits... when the military-industrial-oil complex is growing exponentially at the expense of our democracy --- then something is wrong!

[blm]

90. Wanna bet that drugrunning is also STAKING the private military companies run by BFEE

cronies, too?

[redqueen]

85. There is more than one kind of "Democrat" these days, friend. (nt)

[blm]

94. Yep - and closed government Dems undermining the open govt. Dems are Bush enablers.

.

[DevonRex]

3. Two gunshot wounds to the head? That sounds kind of weird

for a suicide. Kinda hard to miss your own head. And kind of hard to shoot yourself in the head a second time.

[mopinko]

10. strange but true

it can happen. if the first bullet did not hit a vital part of the brain, he could have lived and taken another shot. it is strange, but it can happen.
not to say that it was suicide. it might not have been. but his family has said they believe it was. it can happen.

[blm]

11. The way he was targeted since 1996 by official DC and their operatives in the press corps

caused his later problems. You don't uncover a huge bombshell like that involving Poppy Bush's illegal drugrunning operations by covert CIA and expect not to have to look over your shoulder for the rest of your life.

[mopinko]

23. probably true.

i can easily see it. but how people handle that sort of thing starts with who they are. how stable they are. not that don't think that they could make you jump off a building. i'm sure they could, especially if they tried.

[Leopolds Ghost]

64. Well you're the one questioning his stability. Occam's Razor suggest otherwise.

[Leopolds Ghost]

62. How many botched "suicide" hits have there been? I can't think of many - why pay for a poor product?

That is what the intel services pay for.

[truebrit71]

5. Um, how does one commit suicide by shooting oneself in the head TWICE?

...that might have raised a red flag in some coroner's offices no?

[Jed Dilligan]

56. It's possible the first bullet only grazed him, but still

you would need to hate yourself a lot to squeeze out that second round.

[truebrit71]

57. No shit!

...that would take a REAL commitment.... :wow:

[Leopolds Ghost]

63. He ran into a bullet. Twice.

[blm]

79. It actually does happen some times. When it comes to those who've crossed the BFEE

though, the LIKELIHOOD that it did happen does decrease somewhat.

[crimsonblue]

80. The possible ways to shoot off more than one:

1. 1st one didn't do it and the pain was so bad that he fired again
2. first one didn't kill him but he was pumping the trigger and the second one did
3. The gun was burst fire semi - automatic
4. The trigger was sensitive
5. someone else pulled the trigger
6. random, unexpected gun error
7. magic bullet?

[mtnsnake]

6. Are you saying that Hillary won't be the nominee BECAUSE of this movie?

Or are you just hoping that people who are reading your post real fast might interpret it that way?

[blm]

7. Nope - I'm thankful she WON'T be the nominee when this movie comes out BECAUSE

McCain could come out looking better than Clintons if this movie questions the protection given GHWBush by the administration in charge at the time.

Obama won't have that burden, and he can attack McCain for siding with Bush's policies in the 80s.

[electropop]

9. He must've felt very guilty for his "lies" - shot himself in the head - TWICE.

:wtf:

How exactly did they expect people to buy the suicide theory???

[Leopolds Ghost]

65. Because his lies were hateful and un-American, just like Reverend Wright.

He was presumably ashamed of himself.


(why is there no British dry tone of voice tag?)

[madfloridian]

12. From 2004, a good post at Daily Kos about Webb.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/12/12/22151/411

[blm]

58. thanks....I remember that.

Very painful time.

I'll clip from the diary....Webb's own words...discussing censored news stories....

>>>>>
If we had met five years ago, you wouldn't have found a more staunch defender of the newspaper industry than me ... I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests. So how could I possibly agree with people like Noam Chomsky and Ben Bagdikian, who were claiming the system didn't work, that it was steered by powerful special interests and corporations, and existed to protect the power elite?"

"And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job ... The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn't written anything important enough to suppress."
>>>>>>

[Toucano]

13. He was blacklisted for reporting the truth.

Clinton will probably not bring about justice for this Bush administration either.

It's depressing.

[blm]

15. Well - that's another good reason a Clinton won't be our nominee.

After all, that drugrunning operation of Poppy Bush's was centered for years out of an airport in Arkansas.

If Clintons knew they looked the other way for Poppy. If they didn't know, then they are the wrong people to put in charge of tracking global terror networks that get their funding from drugrunning and covert armsdealing.

[Leopolds Ghost]

67. There will be a 2 minutes' hate for anyone who says anything that the system objects to.

All major candidates and political figures will be asked to denounce and
blacklist not only those who say such things, but their friends WHO FAIL
to reject and denounce the culprits.

It has already begun.

Sound familiar?

[cascadiance]

14. Just saw another documentary "Damage Done" from my PVR off of Free Speech TV earlier...

It's a documentary where law enforcement folks, judges, etc. all say that the "prohibition" on drugs is totally screwed up and that we need a new set of laws that doesn't thrive on sending people to prison and the profits and corruption surrounding it.

http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/damage-done/home.php

One part of it had a former DEA agent, Cele Castillo, who was very well meaning when he started the job in trying to prevent big drug trafficking from getting up here to the states. But then he shows where he's documented the corruption of the Contras with the drug trade then, and that his reports he sent back to Washington were in effect flushed down "a black hole" instead of being heard.

http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/damage-done/cops/CeleCastillo.php



Edit: Note from this page there's a book that looks to be a good reference for this story. The comments below here reference Webb's work too in context.

http://www.amazon.com/Powderburns-Cocaine-Contras-Drug-War/dp/0889625786/

a comment:

Castillo, a former DEA field agent, stationed in Central America became an unwitting witness to the CIA's, Oliver North's, and the Reagan Administration's involvement in the smuggling of cocaine to fund the Contra army. Published years before the 1997 San Jose Mercury News/Gary Webb article, "Dark Alliance", about the CIA's role in bringing crack to the streets of America, Castillo provides a shocking but entirely credible story from the inside. Castillo, during the course of his field investigations into cocaine smuggling, inevitably ran into the CIA's cocaine network. A fly-drugs-up/fly-guns-down network operated by Oliver North, Richard Secord, and CIA front company Southern Air Transport out of the Ilopango airbase in El Salvador. He was repremanded time and time again by his DEA superiors for sticking his nose places it didn't belong. Warned off by claims he was endangering missions critical to our National Security. Yet, Castillo continued to file tell-all reports to the DEA in Washington. This is the story of the uncovering of these revelations, and one man's fight to expose the truth and bring these injustices to light. I highly recommend it.

Another comment:

The foreward, written by Michael Levine, encourages the reader to cancel all appointments for the next several hours as the reader will not be able to put this book down. Levine wasn't kidding. This book is about the life of Cele Castillo. It begins with Cele's childhood under the rule of a military father. Cele ends up being drafted for the Vietnam war and his experiences in Vietnam are so amazingly vivid that it's impossible to put this book down. The drug use in Vietnam was so rampant that this is where Cele learns that narcotics were much more of a threat to America than Communism as he vows to fight the illegal drug industry if he ever makes it out of Vietnam in one piece. Cele survives the jungle, the snipers, and even his first helicopter crash. He's hired by the DEA and assigned to work in New York. He works hard, risking his life many times to bust drug dealers and ends up working in Central America. As if a second helicopter crash and being the guy responsible for upsetting powerful drug lords weren't risky enough, Cele stumbles upon the CIA and Oliver North's involvement in the illegal drug industry & illegal gun running during the Iran-Contra scandal, which also involved Bush Sr. & the Reagan administration. North & his crew were selling over-priced weapons to Iran as well as selling tons of cocaine to American cities as they used all of those profits to buy massive amount of weapons that they flew in to the Contras. As the cash and weapons were flown into the Contras, cocaine was brought back to America under the protection of the US military and CIA. The airplanes & airplane hangars were all CIA and NSA owned, and the pilots (Barry Seal & others) were contracted by the CIA. The corruption and involvement of our own CIA in the illegal drug industry wasn't enough to make Cele give up, he kept fighting to make a dent in the illegal drug industry. He was warned to stay away from the operations of Oliver North and the CIA but he pressed on anyway. That's when his career suffered as an internal investigation was launched against him. As if death threats and surviving a plane crash (his 3rd crash) weren't enough, trumped-up charges were used against him to end his career at the DEA. Cele risked his life countless times, got tons of cocaine off the streets of America & traded his marriage for dedication to his career. Senator John Kerry's investigation went nowhere, Bush Sr. pardoned North's crew as they only got a slap on the wrist (probation) while the DEA rewarded Cele by ending his career.

[redqueen]

16. Another good documentary is "American Drug War: The Last White Hope"

http://www.americandrugwar.com/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8740703353227564451

[blm]

22. BET series American Gangster last year covered aspects of Gary Webb's report.

Showed the CIA document that was obtained for a court case in 1998 that confirmed accuracy of Webb's account of the illegal operation.

[redqueen]

24. Nice... this doc shows the hearing ...

where a guy confronts a CIA stooge about operations after the Webb story was played down, and the stooge can't deny... great scene.

[blm]

27. Some CIA won't deny the story anymore but DUers supporting HRC will, or pretend it's not relevant.

That's their usual MO.

[redqueen]

28. Yeah... it used to surprise me.

Not anymore though.

[Leopolds Ghost]

69. Tells you who they're really working for. BFEE / enablers are an int'l crime syndicate

No wonder 9-11 happened on their watch.

[beachmom]

35. I found this synopsis of American Gangster. It's on DVD for $24.95

http://streetgangs.com/movies/agbetone.html

'Freeway' Ricky Ross was the first crack king of Los Angeles, a hustler whose product fed the violent streets of his city. Ross didn't start out bad -- he was a charming and athletic kid who was once an all-city tennis champ. But when his dreams of earning a tennis scholarship evaporated, Ross took to the streets and began to sell drugs. But his life was truly changed when he got involved with the '80s fastest growing product -- crack cocaine. At the height of his career, Ross was selling $2 to $3 million of coke a day. Ross's dealings not only impacted the local community, but the international drug trade as well. This episode will chronicle Ross' rise and fall in narcotics distribution, as well as discuss his unwitting connection to the infamous Reagan-era CIA/Iran-Contras scandal.

[blm]

38. One day this story will EXPLODE in America - and wonder if this movie will do it.

.

[glitch]

73. Probably not, unless Brad Pitt plays him.

"All the President's Men" for a New American Century.

[Leopolds Ghost]

68. If drugs were less expensive, we couldnt use threat of organized crime to suppress inner city anger

And they would not have an easy medium of exchange (high cost per pound)
for covert activities such as surveilling Bin Laden throughout the 1990's,
meeting with him, intercepting his plans, intercepting copies of the
wire transfer from SA and Pakistan funding him, etc. Generally, without
drug money (including intercepted billions in proceeds from selectively
enforced major sting operations) we could not afford to keep tabs on the
REAL terrorists!!! Things would fall thru the net!

[MagickMuffin]

17. Thanks for posting blm

I remember when this story broke. Maxine Waters held hearings about it.

It was really a sad day in America when the media treated him the way they did.

I wish someone would also do a movie on Danny Casolaro. Casolaro was found dead in a bathtub in the Sheraton Inn, Martinsburg, West Virginia, one day after allegedly arranging to meet a source in connection with an investigation he had referred to as "the Octopus." His research centered around a complex story called the Inslaw affair, and a sprawling conspiracy theory supposedly connected to it.

Casolaro alleged that he was nearly ready to have revealed a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy spanning Iran-Contra, October Surprise, the closure of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), the bombing of Pan Am 103, and involving the Central intelligence Agency (CIA), Mossad, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the U.S. Justice Dept, the Wackenhut Corporation, and the British security and intelligence services. Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Phil Linsalata notes, "Any one of those stories, of course, is a challenge for America's best journalists. Casolaro wanted to tackle them all."

More:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Casolaro

[blm]

20. Mark Lombardi's graphic art detailed the vast Bush network and included Clinton, but

we are supposed to not notice those connections because we have been TOLD that Bill is a Democrat.

And Lombardi was also found dead in a suicide right before the opening of his major show in NYC in 2000 that added Bush2 connections.

[MagickMuffin]

32. Ah yes, Lombardi

I had to do a quick wiki, because I remembered him but had forgotten the details.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lombardi

Lombardi's drawings purport to document financial and political frauds by power brokers. His 1999 drawing, entitled George W. Bush, Harken Energy and Jackson Stephens, ca 1979–90, shows the proven connections between James Bath, the Bush and bin Laden families, and business deals in Texas and around the world.


Isn't it interesting that he knew of the Bush and bin Laden's connections BEFORE any of us had heard the name bin Laden?.?.?



I had a dream the other day concerning the Bush Cabal. I was working on a video for a class project dealing with the Cabal. I was late to class because I was being chased down by a helicopter, I jumped a fence, only to have a gun pointed at my head right behind my left ear. Luckily, someone from who knows where, came to my rescue. I made it to class, only to have been approached by Poppy himself and he told me to desist in my project. I told him he would not intimidate me, and he left. However, there was a Psy-ops man in the class with me.
After leaving class, there were a few more episodes with gunmen. At which point I forced myself to wake up, because my heart was beating too fast.

[blm]

34. Yep - Bin Ladens had quite a few deals going thru BCCI, and so did Usama.

Drugrunning and TERROR NETWORKS go hand in hand.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

87. For the curious:

[blm]

88. Thanks for posting that. I wish people would could see it blown up for full impact.

.

[guyanakoolaid]

83. Oh, noes, don't go talking about PROMIS software or Clinton's link....

or any more of those craaaaaazy conspiracy theories ;-)

[Ilsa]

18. We talked about Gary Webb alot here on DU when he died.

I hope the movie gets some thorough press. My guess is that the MSM will require the journalists to keep a lid on it.

[blm]

21. Yep - because part of the story is how DC gets OTHER press to help cover up for their operations

And that couldn't have happened without Clinton's administration supplying the 'officials' the coverup reporters used to deny Webb's account.

[quantass]

54. .

[stillcool]

19. Gary Webb's brand of Investigative Journalism

is as dead as he is. Every American should know this story.
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/drugs/start.htm


http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/




By Dan Feder
Special to The Narco News Bulletin

June 23, 2005

Click here to go straight to the restored Dark Alliance website.

For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found.

This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia’s cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the crack capital of the world.
– From the introduction to the original Dark Alliance website, August, 1996


The Dark Alliance logo. Jerry Ceppos called it “too suggestive.”
The investigative journalism series that started it all – that changed (or at least, at long last, confirmed) the way all of us think about the war on drugs, the CIA, and U.S. policy toward Latin America – has had a troubled life on the Internet.

In August 1996, Gary Webb began publishing the results of a yearlong investigation that traced the money fueling the horrific U.S.-backed “contra” war against Nicaragua to the profits from Los Angeles’ 1980s crack epidemic. The CIA led its contra army to spend the entire decade terrorizing the Nicaraguan people and their Sandinista government, happily allowing the contras to flood Los Angeles and other North American cities with cocaine to fund their efforts. Gary provided extensively documented evidence that while poor communities in L.A. paid the price of the crack explosion – from rampant addiction in their neighborhoods to oppressive law enforcement and jailing with Reagan’s stepped-up “war on drugs” – the United States government protected the men moving a great deal of the drugs coming into the city. Local dealers faced life sentences while the bigtime narcos from Washington to Managua went free.

What came next is well known. Gary’s story, and the website he and the San Jose Mercury News created to showcase and expand upon it, were initially the talk of the global village. Politicians cited the article in both Sacramento and Washington. The CIA launched an internal investigation. Millions of people were visiting the website.

But then the backlash came. The L.A. Times, embarrassed at having missed a major story on its own turf, and the New York Times, happy to follow its colleagues’ lead in squashing a story that didn’t fit with its own narrative, wielded their mercenary pens against him. Rather than follow up on his exhaustive research, the attack dogs on both coasts pulled his work apart and attacked him for things he hadn’t even said. Although the CIA’s internal investigation would later confirm many of Gary’s own claims, the paper retracted the story and marginalized Gary to the point where he was forced to quit.
Photo: D.R. 2003 Jeremy Bigwood

Dark Alliance: The CIA, The Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
http://www.narconews.com/darkalliance/

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

25. This Movie Carries With It Exactly ZERO Relevance As It Relates To The Election.

100% Insignificant.

[blm]

26. Why are events of 1996 that saw the Clinton WH protecting GHWBush on this matter not relevant

to another Clinton getting into the WH after another Bush?

Please explain your conclusion.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

31. Because No One Will Care.

If you think this movie will affect voters in the GE in even a remotely large enough number to even be a BLIP on the radar, then you are wildly mistaken.

0 impact. Nada. None.

[blm]

33. Who WOULDN'T care? People DO care and its one of the reasons HRC is losing right now

so those who support her SHOULD care, too.

This movie comes out and McCain camp can turn it more easily on Clinton for the coverups for GHWBush that included targeting Webb PROFESSIONALLY and PERSONALLY, whereas Obama can use it to tar McCain for siding with Bush's policies that included the drugrunning.

You don't see it because you don't want to have to admit what happened and the role Clinton played in protecting Poppy Bush and the powerful elite involved.

You do know that global drugrunning networks go hand in hand with global terror networks, don't you?

[Leopolds Ghost]

71. No one will care because people are being paid big $$ to massage public opinion. OMC is missing out.

Or maybe not.

[beachmom]

36. People weren't supposed to care about corruption either, yet it was the #1 issue for 2006

People don't care, until they find out about it ....

[blm]

40. And I 'predicted' that corruption in government would be a huge issue before that election

and many at DU sided with the Carvilles of our party who wouldn't go near it.

[haymakeragain]

46. Still batting a thousand.

Wrong again. Popped out to the pitcher on this one. at least it wasn't "caught looking" like that idiocy in the Women's voter's Clinton backer robo call Rovian-like lies thread.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

50. You Think This Will Mean A Damn Thing In The GE? Do You Really?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[haymakeragain]

53. Not to people like you, mainly because

you are on the wrong side (always have been), but to people who know the truth, it matters. Now if you had said: "they will never hear about it", then you might have been closer to correct. but you didn't.

0 for all of them, still batting .000

Your little emoticon thing only makes you look like a bigger ass, if that is even possible. When are you coming out?

[blm]

55. Closed government Democrats creep me out. They don't belong in our party - PERIOD!

The Republicans THRIVE on closed government as it chokes out everything else around it.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

59. Not To Almost Anybody. Try And Get A Grip On Reality When You Get The Chance, K?

:rofl:

[haymakeragain]

76. It's amzing how much you sound like

a brown-shirted flying monkey. You even defend their willful wrongness. I think I know why though.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

77. You Think You Know A Lot Of Things That Turn Out To Not Be True In Reality.

:rofl:

[blm]

93. Why? When did drugdealing global terror networks become a nonissue, OMC?

.

[blm]

49. Let me ask you this, OMC - Do you think voters SHOULD care about this?

.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

51. As It Relates To Hillary?

No, they shouldn't.

[blm]

52. No one should question whether she sides with open government or closed government privilege

and secrecy like the first Clinton did?

Why should it not be relevant to this nation, especially after Bush2?

[AntiFascist]

82. Maybe this relates to Hillary...

what were she and Vince Foster up to at the Rose Law Firm? Why are there reports linking both of them to massive offshore bank accounts and BCCI? What was the role of the NSA at the Mena operation? Which failed Savings and Loans were using Systematics software for their backend accounting?

[Leopolds Ghost]

70. Thanks for the heads-up, OPERATION MIND CRIME

[AntiFascist]

29. K&R, I don't know if this was covered much in Webb's reporting...

but they should expose the Contra operation that was run out of Mena Airport.

[blm]

30. Yes - Webb fell into the story from the transcripts of narco-terror hearings

conducted by Kerry where sworn testimony was taken on these matters. The press ignored these hearings, and no doubt they were downplayed deliberately. Imagine the rioting across America that would have occurred if Americans REALLY UNDERSTOOD that it was official government operations that were triggering the rising drug problems in every city in every region of the country.

[beachmom]

42. Those Kerry hearings make gripping reading:

http://www.thememoryhole.org/kerry/

[blm]

45. Establishment DC knew Kerry would open these books - and why the powerful elite NEEDED him

to be kept out of the oval office.

That he is so close with Obama, and TeamClinton is fighting Obama so hard when they know he has had the nomination since Super Tuesday is more about protecting secrecy and privilege of CLOSED government that can only happen now with a McCain win.

[newspeak]

43. also, remember Danny Casolaro and Ng

both, journalists died attempting to expose the truth. What we are facing today directly is linked what happened then. Some of the same players have been in *'s administration. Ng, I believe was shot down in Mexico? attempting to follow a BCCI trail. These journalists who put their lives on the line knew exactly what was at stake for this country. Drug running and terrorism goes hand and hand---how's that bumper crop of poppies doing in Afghanistan? Intentionally putting drugs on our streets is a direct link to a burgeoning prison population. As Smedley Butler would say, here's a network that would make the mafia look inconsequential.

[AntiFascist]

75. This is interesting...

didn't the so-called "War on Drugs" begin in South Florida in the early 80s when Feds came in and decided to crack down on the gang violence caused by South American drug lords (or drug queen as the case may be have been)? Maybe they realized how much money was involved and the strategy became to take over the drug trade instead of eliminate it.

[blm]

78. BCCI my friend....BCCI.

.

[Uncle Joe]

37. Two gunshot wounds to the head and that was ruled as a suicide!

Did he stab him self in the back too?

Thanks for the thread, blm.

[Mezzo]

39. This guy's so prominent, I've never heard of him (and he bears my family name)

wow. :popcorn:

[blm]

41. His story is significant enough that a movie will be made. YOU probably didn't know anything about

the drugrunning profits funding global terror networks, either - but don't you WISH, for the sake of the 9-11 families and the carpet-bombed countries since, that you and the rest of America HAD paid attention to these matters WHEN they were happening?

Or...are you pleased with the way things turned out with BushInc's illegal operations protected from further scrutiny of the citizenry?

[beachmom]

44. It's worth learning the story of Gary Webb. Since the powerful corporate media elite sought to

destroy him, well, do you think they are going to do any stories about him?

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1213-31.htm

Published on Monday, December 13, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
R.I.P. Gary Webb -- Unembedded Reporter
by Jeff Cohen


Gary Webb, a courageous investigative journalist who was the target of one of the most ferocious media attacks on any reporter in recent history, was found dead Friday after an apparent suicide.

In August 1996, Webb wrote one of the first pieces of journalism that reached a massive audience thanks to the Internet: an explosive 20,000 word, three-part series documenting links between cocaine traffickers, the crack epidemic of the 1980s and the CIA-organized right-wing Nicaraguan Contra army of that era. The series sparked major interest in the social justice and African-American communities, leading to street protests, constant discussion on black-oriented talk radio and demands by Congressional Black Caucus members for a federal investigation. But weeks later, Webb suffered a furious backlash at the hands of national media unaccustomed to seeing their role as gatekeepers diminished by the emerging medium known as the WorldWideWeb.

Webb's explosive San Jose Mercury News series documented that funders of the Contras included drug traffickers who played a role in the crack epidemic that hit Los Angeles and other cities. Webb's series focused heavily on Oscar Danilo Blandon, a cocaine importer and federal informant, who once testified in federal court that "whatever we were running in L.A., the profit was going to the Contra revolution." Blandon further testified that Colonel Enrique Bermudez, a CIA asset who led the Contra army against Nicaragua's leftwing Sandinista government, knew the funds were from drug running. (Bermudez was a colonel during the Somoza dictatorship in Nicaragua.)

Webb reported that U.S. law enforcement agents complained that the CIA had squelched drug probes of Blandon and his partner Norwin Meneses in the name of "national security." Blandon's drugs flowed into L.A. and elsewhere thanks to the legendary "Freeway" Ricky Donnell Ross, a supplier of crack to the Crips and Bloods gangs.


(READ THE REST AT THE LINK)

[blm]

91. What should be of concern to ANY CITIZEN is that government forces can FORCE cooperation

of OTHER news outlets in covering up a story damaging to them, and use them to destroy the careers and lives of those who dare to report the truth.

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[KoKo]

48. K&R!

:kick:

[glitch]

72. Any thread that mentions Mark Lombardi and Danny Casolaro should include Steve Kangas

Another dead hero investigative journalist.

Thanks for the heads up on the Gary Webb movie.

[blm]

74. Thanks for doing so.

.

[blm]

92. Kangas was 'suicided' in Richard Scaife's office building, right?

.

[glitch]

95. Yes. nt

[Boxerfan]

84. .32 Ratshot was used... No ballistic evidence to deal with & scrambles nicely

2 shots to the temple....

Just wanted to add this detail.... I find it even more telling ratshot is the tool of choice for up close work....

Anyone who believes Gary was able to shoot himself twice with this load is denying a whole lotta physics.

[blm]

89. Isn't that how Cliff Baxter from Enron 'commited suicide' too?

.

[mistertrickster]

86. TWO gunshot wounds to the head. Wow, that was some "suicide." One wonders

how he managed to shoot himself again after the first shot killed him.

[merh]

96. Hell, people won't make the connection

Primary Colors - that movie was about the clintons, it did not depict the wife of the candidate in a very good light, now did it?

Folks forget, they have to have heros and one never can truly understand why another sees a hero in a flawed human being.

[blm]

98. Well, since Webb's report came out in 1996 and the takedown of him was started then, it would be

difficult to get around WHO in 1996-1998 was generating the official storyline fed to the press who used it to smear Webb and deny or downplay the report.