Reply #123: David Corn is a turd. [View All]

[Octafish]

Thanks, seemslikeadream. The guy sanitizes the "Bush Lies" in order to enable more of the same. I dunno why, but I've got an idea or two.

Corn really sets a new low for himself in his obituary of Gary Webb. Major errors in reporting is how he made out "Dark Alliance." What a schmuck, I love how he tries to distance himself from those who piled-on Webb when the original series appeared.


Gary Webb is Dead

By David Corn
The Nation

EXCERPT...

Webb's tale is a sad one. He was on to something but botched part of how he handled it. He then was blasted and ostracized. He was wrong on some important details but he was, in a way, closer to the truth than many of his establishment media critics who neglected the story of the real CIA-contra-cocaine connection. In 1998, a CIA inspector general's report acknowledged that the CIA had indeed worked with suspected drugrunners while supporting the contras. A Senator named John Kerry had investigated these links years earlier, and the media had mostly ignored his findings. After Webb published his articles, the media spent more time crushing Webb than pursuing the full story. It is only because of Webb's work--as flawed as it was--that the CIA IG inquiry happened. So, then, it is only because of Webb that US citizens have confirmation from the CIA that it partnered up with suspected drug traffickers in the just-say-no years and that the Reagan Administration, consumed with a desire to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, allied itself with drug thugs.

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