From ottilie@u.washington.edu Mon Jun 16 07:59:05 1997 Received: from jason03.u.washington.edu (root@jason03.u.washington.edu [140.142.77.10]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id HAA60306 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:59:04 -0700 Received: from dante32.u.washington.edu (ottilie@dante32.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.106]) by jason03.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id HAA10806 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:59:03 -0700 Received: (from ottilie@localhost) by dante32.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.04/8.8.4+UW97.04) id HAA60558; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:58:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:58:59 -0700 From: Christine Petersen Message-Id: <199706161458.HAA60558@dante32.u.washington.edu> To: mediawatch@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Dark Alliance In-Reply-To: oh myn, look at this. because so many people believed this guy's report and were shocked by it, and because you just *know* that this isn't going to be published in the newspaper or on TV to any large extent, I think we really have to confirm this and at best try to interview Webb or at least do a writeup of the timeline of the release of his story. I mean, never ever did they find an incorrect fact in his original series, and further research just turned up more stuff, and the main recanting by his editor was just to state that maybe it would have been more perfect if he had emphasized a few things differently. but this makes it look like the paper is saying that they're recanting the whole story. I've even heard people on talk radio gloss the whole CIA-drugs thing over by mentioning how the editor made that statement & therefore it must have been all in his imagination. In article you write: > >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Gary Webb, the reporter for the San Jose Mercury News whose >"Dark Alliance" series linked the CIA to sales of crack cocaine >in the U.S., is being transferred by his newspaper 150 miles >away, to a small suburban bureau. Like Dr. Whitehurst, the FBI >whistleblower, Webb's "reward" for essentially honest reporting >is transfer to Siberia. Get the message, all budding journalists >and potential whistleblowers? > Claims Webb: "This is just harassment. This isn't the first >time that a reporter went after the CIA and lost his job over >it." Although some criticism has arisen over Webb's series on >CIA-drug connections, he would not back down from his basic >story. This editor is of the opinion that Webb's story *is* >essentially correct. And Rep. Maxine Waters (D.-CA) apparently >feels there is something to the charges also; she continues to >lead a congressional investigation into the matter. > In further developments, Webb now claims he was threatened >with losing his job unless he stopped work on the series of >reports, "Dark Alliance." -- (AP, 6/11/97 & 6/12/97) and >(Conspiracy Nation) >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > -- .