Robert Parry Eulogizes Gary Webb, Implicates Big Media

[Doctor_J]

However, to have written that story in 1998, the L.A. Times editors would have had to admit they had wronged Webb two years earlier when they bought into the ongoing government cover stories about the innocence of the Reagan administration and the CIA.

It was much easier for the L.A. Times to ignore the findings of the CIA's own inspector general and to maintain the fiction that Webb was just a reckless reporter who had gotten the contra-cocaine story all wrong.

That decision by the L.A. Times – when combined with the abusive treatment Webb received from other major news outlets and his betrayal by his own editors at the San Jose Mercury News – had sent Webb’s life into a downward spiral that ended with him shooting himself with his father’s handgun.

On Dec. 10, 2004, I told the L.A. Times reporter that since his newspaper had never reported on the CIA’s admissions, he could not put Webb’s death in any honest context. So, I was not surprised the next day when the L.A. Times published a nasty obituary that treated Webb as if he had been a common criminal rather than a fellow journalist.



http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/121007.html

[BridgeTheGap]

1. While I'm already familiar with this, it is worth a read - also, a current call to abolish the CIA

http://www.slate.com/id/2179593/?gt1=10733

[yurbud]

3. I don't know about abolishing, except the covert ops wing OR no more Wall Street or politician

directors.

[BridgeTheGap]

5. How about a top to bottom "reorganization?"

something needs to be done.

[yurbud]

6. the problem is far more top than bottom--you reorganize all you want but as soon as you put a crony

in charge, the damage will be redone.

[BridgeTheGap]

7. I have heard it argued that the CIA was a skull & bones creation

Quite a few of their members seem to "enjoy" intelligence careers. They're probably just patriotic, that's all.

[yurbud]

8. Mike Ruppert's CROSSING THE RUBICON starts with a pretty simple, chilling connect the dots of

Wall Street, the drug trade, and the CIA.

[BridgeTheGap]

9. Yeah, they don't like Mike Ruppert very much

ever since his outing of his CIA girlfriend for dealing coke and his confrontation with Deutsch in southcentral LA.
Crossing the Rubicon is worth the read.

[yurbud]

10. CIA girlfriend?! I missed that part.

[pberq]

2. Kick & Nominated

[flashl]

4. I remember. RIP Gary Webb.