Gary Webb, RIP, LA Times, Doyle McManus, CIA

Here's the fascinating & ugly story of how LATimes, led by @DoyleMcManus, destroyed Gary Webb for reporting on CIA http://t.co/61q2RXUwdy

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 15, 2014

Gary Webb, RIP | Dissonance | Los Angeles | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly: "The core of his work, however, still stands. When much of the rest of the media went to sleep, Gary Webb dug and scratched and courageously took on the most powerful and arrogant and unaccountable agencies of the U.S. government. His tenacious reporting forced those same agencies to investigate themselves and to admit publicly — albeit in watered-down terms — what he had alleged."

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Why AP published story about missing American tied to CIA

Why AP is publishing story about missing American tied to CIA | THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE: "Publishing this article was a difficult decision. This story reveals serious mistakes and improper actions inside the U.S. government’s most important intelligence agency. Those actions, the investigation and consequences have all been kept secret from the public." (read more at link above)

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