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Apologizing to Gary Webb? by Mike Lev�</A>
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IS ANYONE APOLOGIZING TO GARY WEBB?
by Michael Levine
July, 1998
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. An action known to us court qualified experts and federal
agents as Conspiracy to Import and Distribute Cocaine�a federal felony
punishable by up to life in prison.
To illustrate how us regular walking around, non CIA types are treated when
we violate this law, while I was serving as a DEA supervisor in New York
City, I put two New York City police officers in a federal prison for
Conspiracy to distribute Cocaine when they looked the other way at their
friend's drug dealing. We could not prove they earned a nickel nor that
they helped their friend in any way, they merely did not do their duty by
reporting him. They were sentenced to 10 and 12 years respectively, and one
of them, I was recently told, had committed suicide.
I have spent three decades as a court qualified expert and federal agent and
am not aware of any class of American Citizen having special permission to
violate the law that we have been taxed over $1 trillion in the past two
decades to enforce; the law that every politician, bureaucrat and media
pundit keeps telling us protects us against the most serious danger to
American security in our history.
The interesting thing to me, about the Webb article is that the CIA is
provably (and now admittedly) responsible for much larger scale drug
trafficking than Webb alleged or even imagined in his report. In fact,
according to a confidential DEA report entitled "Operation Hun, a
Chronology" that I used as part of the proof to back up the undercover
experiences detailed in my book The Big White Lie, (optioned for a movie by
Robert Greenwald Productions) the CIA was actively blocking DEA from
indicting many members of the ruling government of Bolivia, from,
1980-83�during a time period that these same people were responsible for
producing more than 90 percent of the cocaine consumed in the United States.
As CIA Inspector General Hitz himself stated before congress, it was during
this time period that Nicraguan Contra supporters were buying large amounts
of cocaine from these same CIA protected Bolivians.
Do you think Congress wants to see this proof?
The gang that can't spy straight, as they are known to my listeners and
about whom President Lyndon Johnson once said, "When Rich folks don't trust
their sons with the family money they send them on down to the CIA,"
certainly did a lot more damage to this nation than, for example, computer
company owner Will Foster who was sentenced to 93 years in prison for
possession of 70 marijuana plants for medicinal use.
Of course, true to their shifty, sleazy form, while admitting that they did
aid and abet Contra drug trafficking, they are now refusing to release their
own final investigative report which details the damning proof. The same
report that CIA Inspector General Fredrick Hitz, during February, 1998, had
promised congress and the American people was forthcoming "shortly", because,
as CIA Director George Tenet now claims, CIA does not have enough money in
its budget to properly classify it.
You believe that then I know an old guy with a beard named Fidel, wandering
the streets of South Miami with an Island about 90 miles off the coast for
sale. He says the money is for his retirement.
How, you ask, do they get away with it?
Well for one thing, mainstream media, the so-called Fourth Estate, does all
it can to help. During the Iran-contra hearings, when Senators Kerry and
D'amato were making pronouncements before the Senate indicating that the CIA
was involved with drug trafficking, Katherine Graham the owner of The
Washington Post addressed a class of CIA recruits at CIA's Langley
headquarters in Novemeber, 1988, by saying:
"There are some things the general public does not need to know and
shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take
legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether
to print what it knows.."
Apparently CIA protection of drug trafficking was among those secrets Thus,
it should have been no surprise to those CIA agent recruits when Washington
Post reporter and drug expert Michael Itsikoff wrote that there was "no
credible evidence" linking the CIA supported contras to cocaine
trafficking at the same time very credible evidence was being heard by
Senator Kerry's committee indicating that the Contras may have been the top
purveyors of drugs to Americans in our history.
Neither should it have been a surprise to anyone who heard her statement
when mainstream media refused to print the news that Oliver North, US
Ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs and various top level CIA officers
were banned from ever entering Costa Rica by Nobel Prize winning President
Oscar Arias, for drug running. The drugs, by the way, all going to us.
Nor should it have been a surprise when Gary Webb was destroyed by
mainstream media, for doing nothing more or less than telling the truth as
he found it. And now, while CIA admits their felonies to the press but
refuses to release the proof, and, Janet Reno, the head of the Obstruction
of Justice Department has done the unprecedented by classifying her own
department's investigation
into CIA drug trafficking, the partnership for a Drug Free America is
spending $2 billion of our tax money on already-proven-fruitless anti-drug
ads.
And where do you think the money goes?
Answer: to every major media corporation on the big board.
Gary Webb, my friend, you are owed a huge apology. But I doubt that you'll
get it. Not in this lifetime.
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