Managing a Nightmare: How the #CIA Watched Over the Destruction of #Gary_Webb - The Intercept
▻https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-media-destruction-gary-webb
Webb said, “I was winning awards, getting raises, lecturing college classes, appearing on TV shows, and judging journalism contests.”
“And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I’d enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn’t been, as I’d assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job,” Webb wrote. “The truth was that, in all those years, I hadn’t written anything #important enough to suppress.”