Gary Webb on Bill Clinton and Osama Bin Laden - Dark Alliance Interview (Part 1)

Gary Webb on Bill Clinton and Osama Bin Laden - Dark Alliance Interview (Part 1)

August 14, 1998 www.amazon.com Watch the full interview: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Gary Webb (August 31, 1955 - December 10, 2004) was a prize-winning American investigative journalist. Since Webb's death, both the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune have defended his 1996 "Dark Alliance" series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book. In the three-part series, Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had allegedly smuggled cocaine into the US. The smuggled cocaine was then distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, with the resultant profits funneled back to the Contras. Webb also alleged that this influx of Nicaraguan-supplied cocaine sparked, and significantly fueled, the widespread crack cocaine epidemic that swept through many US cities during the 1980s. According to Webb, the CIA was aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of drugs into the US by Contra personnel. Webb charged that the Reagan administration shielded inner-city drug dealers from prosecution in order to raise money for the Contras, especially after Congress passed the Boland Amendment, which prohibited direct Contra funding. Webb's reporting generated fierce controversy, and the Mercury News backed away from the story, effectively ending Webb's career as a mainstream media journalist. Jonathan Kwitny (23 March 1941, Indianapolis - 26 November 1998, New York) was a Jewish American writer and investigative ...
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