Long piece. Parry has a new book, http://www.secrecyandprivilege.com/ via Tom Burghardt's antifa(scist) mailing.
AMERICA'S DEBT TO JOURNALIST GARY WEBB
By Robert Parry http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/121304.html
In 1996, journalist Gary Webb wrote a series of articles that forced a long-overdue investigation of a very dark chapter of recent U.S. foreign policy -- the Reagan-Bush administration's protection of cocaine traffickers who operated under the cover of the Nicaraguan contra war in the 1980s. -- Michael Pugliese