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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:16,777 --> 00:00:20,262 ...public enemy number one in the United States... 2 00:00:20,380 --> 00:00:22,305 is drug abuse. 3 00:00:22,983 --> 00:00:25,192 In order to fight and defeat this enemy... 4 00:00:25,265 --> 00:00:30,151 it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive. 5 00:00:31,391 --> 00:00:34,558 For nearly a year, I have been devoting increasing attention... 6 00:00:34,635 --> 00:00:38,530 to a problem which strikes at the very heart of our national well-being: 7 00:00:38,599 --> 00:00:39,761 Drug abuse. 8 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:43,815 I did not condone any drug abuse, and we'll do everything possible to reduce... 9 00:00:43,924 --> 00:00:45,894 this serious threat to our society. 10 00:00:45,966 --> 00:00:48,255 Drugs are menacing our society. 11 00:00:48,328 --> 00:00:51,814 They're threatening our values and undercutting our institutions. 12 00:00:52,092 --> 00:00:54,222 They're killing our children. 13 00:00:57,457 --> 00:00:58,984 Thank you very much. 14 00:01:00,180 --> 00:01:04,109 ...and when it comes to drugs and alcohol, just say“no.” 15 00:01:04,184 --> 00:01:06,997 Reagan says he will make it a priority of his presidency... 16 00:01:07,067 --> 00:01:09,436 ...to stop drug abuse in the United States. 17 00:01:09,790 --> 00:01:11,395 This is your brain on drugs. 18 00:01:11,472 --> 00:01:15,845 Those who smuggle and sell drugs are as dangerous to our national security... 19 00:01:15,916 --> 00:01:18,650 ...as any terrorist or foreign dictatorship. 20 00:01:18,759 --> 00:01:22,484 The Reagan administration is spending billions on two wars... 21 00:01:22,563 --> 00:01:24,613 ...the war on drugs at home and the struggle for 22 00:01:24,685 --> 00:01:26,928 Nicaragua abroad. 23 00:01:27,007 --> 00:01:29,900 If we do not act decisively in defense of freedom... 24 00:01:30,010 --> 00:01:33,780 ...new Cubas will arise from the ruins of today's conflicts. 25 00:01:33,854 --> 00:01:35,984 We will consult closely with the Freedom Fighters. 26 00:01:36,056 --> 00:01:38,539 The anti-communist rebels known as the “contras”... 27 00:01:38,659 --> 00:01:42,463 ...an army founded and funded by the CIA. 28 00:01:43,343 --> 00:01:44,915 Crack cocaine... 29 00:01:45,025 --> 00:01:49,193 ...a drug epidemic unlike any that's ever probably existed in the history of the world. 30 00:01:49,309 --> 00:01:53,204 For five dollars, you can begin the process of addicting people. 31 00:01:53,273 --> 00:01:55,513 Waging the war on drugs has 32 00:01:55,539 --> 00:02:00,268 ...one hundred billion dollars over the last ten years. 33 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:04,005 The crack trade has triggered a spasm of gang warfare in south-central L.A... 34 00:02:04,084 --> 00:02:06,088 ...and DEA agents are swarming throughout. 35 00:02:06,206 --> 00:02:07,972 How many of you have crack houses... 36 00:02:08,048 --> 00:02:10,337 ...in your neighborhood? 37 00:02:10,971 --> 00:02:12,702 No brave law enforcement officer... 38 00:02:12,813 --> 00:02:13,940 ...no teacher, no doctor, 39 00:02:14,054 --> 00:02:18,347 need be told how hard and cruel America's drug problem has become. 40 00:02:18,418 --> 00:02:19,626 By nineteen eighty-four, 41 00:02:19,700 --> 00:02:22,627 Congress was preparing to cut off funds to the Contras. 42 00:02:22,703 --> 00:02:27,555 High-level government officials began looking for other ways to continue the aid program. 43 00:02:27,668 --> 00:02:31,643 There must be no Soviet beachhead in Central America. 44 00:02:49,650 --> 00:02:50,732 Good morning. 45 00:02:52,212 --> 00:02:53,453 Who the fuck are you? 46 00:02:53,574 --> 00:02:56,056 Gary Webb. San Jose Mercury-News. 47 00:02:57,417 --> 00:02:58,580 What do you want? 48 00:02:58,659 --> 00:03:02,428 I called you about the government seizure of property of accused narcotics dealers? 49 00:03:02,543 --> 00:03:06,187 Yeah. The accused. Yeah, that's me. Come on in. 50 00:03:06,266 --> 00:03:08,270 Okay, great. Thanks. 51 00:03:10,751 --> 00:03:13,438 - My last house, this sweet pad in Laguna - - Yeah? 52 00:03:13,554 --> 00:03:16,400 Charges didn't stick and the feds still didn't give it back. 53 00:03:16,757 --> 00:03:19,000 - But you did it? - Did what? 54 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,412 Well, off the record, I mean, you sold the dope. 55 00:03:22,583 --> 00:03:25,826 Yeah, but you're missing the point. They took the freaking roof over my head. 56 00:03:26,967 --> 00:03:28,129 Look, wait a sec... 57 00:03:28,248 --> 00:03:31,016 All this stuff that you bought with the drug money - the houses, 58 00:03:31,131 --> 00:03:32,783 the cars, what have you - 59 00:03:33,494 --> 00:03:36,067 ...you lose it because it's the crime that paid for it, right? 60 00:03:36,136 --> 00:03:38,140 Did it, didn't do it... Who gives a shit? 61 00:03:38,499 --> 00:03:41,904 Can't take a man's shelter. Anyway, they didn't prove it, did they? 62 00:03:41,982 --> 00:03:43,428 LA Sheriff's Department - nobody move! 63 00:03:43,504 --> 00:03:44,995 - Let me see your hands! 64 00:03:45,065 --> 00:03:47,195 Christ. Here we go again. 65 00:03:47,307 --> 00:03:49,311 - Down, motherfucker down! - Get the girl! 66 00:03:49,429 --> 00:03:50,478 Secure the girl! 67 00:03:50,551 --> 00:03:51,313 Look, I'm a reporter. 68 00:03:51,391 --> 00:03:52,474 Shut the fuck up! 69 00:03:52,553 --> 00:03:53,621 Better get that story out there. 70 00:03:53,634 --> 00:03:55,957 - San Jose Mercury News - - Hey! 71 00:03:58,438 --> 00:04:00,010 I'm a reporter! 72 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,971 Quite a ruckus over there, huh? 73 00:04:02,042 --> 00:04:04,810 Yeah, this guy almost broke my fucking arm, the prick. 74 00:04:07,327 --> 00:04:08,329 All right. 75 00:04:09,970 --> 00:04:11,336 Hey, wait a minute. 76 00:04:13,133 --> 00:04:16,858 Where... 77 00:04:17,337 --> 00:04:19,820 Yeah, I'm sorry. We ran outta inches. 78 00:04:19,980 --> 00:04:23,305 Look, you cut the kicker and you're gonna blow the whole point to this thing. 79 00:04:23,383 --> 00:04:26,071 The government takes these people's shit, all right? 80 00:04:26,186 --> 00:04:28,635 Their cars, their houses, they take everything forever. 81 00:04:28,709 --> 00:04:30,600 This is before they're convicted. 82 00:04:30,671 --> 00:04:33,199 Even if they're acquitted, they don't get it back. 83 00:04:33,514 --> 00:04:35,040 They're drug dealers. 84 00:04:35,155 --> 00:04:38,845 Alleged drug dealers, with rights. Because this is America. 85 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,086 Four minutes until deadline. 86 00:04:41,201 --> 00:04:43,365 Well, take my name off the story. 87 00:04:43,484 --> 00:04:45,693 God, you can be such an asshole. 88 00:04:46,286 --> 00:04:49,020 I'm an asshole because I believe in due process? 89 00:04:49,650 --> 00:04:51,700 Come on. This is our job. 90 00:04:52,452 --> 00:04:53,785 Clock's ticking. 91 00:04:54,895 --> 00:04:58,266 It's ticking. 92 00:04:58,859 --> 00:05:00,545 It's still ticking. 93 00:05:01,061 --> 00:05:02,872 And... 94 00:05:04,064 --> 00:05:05,636 ...don't call back. 95 00:05:10,871 --> 00:05:13,274 This guy just had a shotgun in his ear. Give him a break. 96 00:05:13,794 --> 00:05:15,764 No, there was no shotgun. All right, look, 97 00:05:15,876 --> 00:05:17,878 you're gonna have to wait to read the article. 98 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:21,083 Your son is sixteen. Just FYI. 99 00:05:21,201 --> 00:05:22,773 - I see you! Get rid of it. Honey? 100 00:05:22,883 --> 00:05:24,694 Come on, don't do that. 101 00:05:24,825 --> 00:05:26,527 - That's bad. - That's amazing parenting. 102 00:05:26,567 --> 00:05:28,252 - "Don't do that." - Don't do that. 103 00:05:28,328 --> 00:05:30,094 It's really not a big deal. 104 00:05:31,572 --> 00:05:32,734 Would somebody watch this? 105 00:05:33,293 --> 00:05:34,899 I gotta show you guys something. 106 00:05:40,821 --> 00:05:42,632 New addition to the family... 107 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:45,187 Oh my god! 108 00:05:45,265 --> 00:05:46,553 Dad! 109 00:05:47,207 --> 00:05:49,952 Holy... This is a '71 Tiger Sports Triumph. 110 00:05:50,110 --> 00:05:51,735 It's a beautiful bike or it was a beautiful bike 111 00:05:51,761 --> 00:05:53,220 and we're going to make it beautiful again. 112 00:05:53,273 --> 00:05:54,321 This is the only deal. 113 00:05:54,434 --> 00:05:56,883 - You and I have to rebuild it together, okay? - Hey, hotshot. 114 00:05:56,957 --> 00:05:58,423 - Okay. I love you, Dad. - All right. I love you. 115 00:05:58,438 --> 00:06:00,762 - We're happy. - Goddammit. 116 00:06:00,881 --> 00:06:02,567 Yes? 117 00:06:02,883 --> 00:06:04,614 - We talked about this. - Come on... 118 00:06:04,725 --> 00:06:05,887 - No, "come on." No. - Look at him. 119 00:06:05,966 --> 00:06:07,652 - Look at this. Look at the bike... - I see it. 120 00:06:07,768 --> 00:06:10,091 Look at this face. 121 00:06:10,170 --> 00:06:11,776 Inside my head. 122 00:06:11,892 --> 00:06:15,787 Me and my boy riding side by side, to the mountaintops... 123 00:06:15,856 --> 00:06:17,188 - Touching the sky. - Isn't that right? 124 00:06:17,297 --> 00:06:18,549 Anything happens to him while he's on that bike 125 00:06:18,575 --> 00:06:19,566 Nothing's going to happen to him. 126 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:22,706 ...I will cut these off while you are sleeping. 127 00:06:22,783 --> 00:06:26,108 - Wow. - I thought you already cut those off. 128 00:06:26,186 --> 00:06:28,715 While I'm sleeping! 129 00:06:38,238 --> 00:06:40,447 Dad, you hang out with some insanely bad people. 130 00:06:40,521 --> 00:06:42,012 Don't eat your hair. 131 00:06:42,162 --> 00:06:42,962 Well... 132 00:06:43,003 --> 00:06:45,167 bad guys are usually more honest than good guys. 133 00:06:45,285 --> 00:06:46,891 And more fun. 134 00:06:47,167 --> 00:06:49,741 - Life lessons by Gary Webb. - No, Mom. You actually have to read this. 135 00:06:49,810 --> 00:06:51,655 I did already. It's great. 136 00:06:53,774 --> 00:06:54,899 You guys gotta go, come on. 137 00:06:54,935 --> 00:06:55,744 You heard the lady! 138 00:06:55,816 --> 00:06:58,709 Come on! Who wants to ride in the green machine? 139 00:06:58,819 --> 00:07:00,823 - Dad's taking us? - I'm taking you. 140 00:07:00,941 --> 00:07:02,832 You're not going in your PJ's, are you? 141 00:07:03,824 --> 00:07:05,156 Come on, guys! 142 00:07:05,225 --> 00:07:06,672 - Let's get smushed. - That's where I sit. 143 00:07:06,787 --> 00:07:09,235 Got it? Step in like sardines. 144 00:07:09,349 --> 00:07:10,716 Bye, Momma! 145 00:07:10,791 --> 00:07:12,123 Bye Momma! 146 00:07:12,312 --> 00:07:13,884 - Bye, Momma! - Bye. 147 00:07:14,194 --> 00:07:15,686 Bye Momma! 148 00:07:16,997 --> 00:07:20,288 - One, two, three... - Bye, Mom! 149 00:07:40,300 --> 00:07:41,301 Here you go. 150 00:07:41,702 --> 00:07:43,627 - It's probably cold. - Thank you. 151 00:07:44,024 --> 00:07:46,028 Hey, I know how bad you want to do the Guv today. 152 00:07:46,346 --> 00:07:47,873 Some real reporter work. 153 00:07:47,988 --> 00:07:50,231 Yeah. How that shit gives you satisfaction, I'll never know. 154 00:07:50,350 --> 00:07:51,763 Hey, that story this morning? 155 00:07:51,872 --> 00:07:53,034 That was a big one. 156 00:07:53,193 --> 00:07:55,563 - But not “the" big one. - Yeah, what would that be? 157 00:07:55,676 --> 00:07:57,840 Catching Clinton breaking into Watergate? 158 00:07:58,078 --> 00:07:59,240 Hey. 159 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,485 Rich Kline, LA Times. How you doing? 160 00:08:01,762 --> 00:08:04,449 My editors are pissed that we missed the drug forfeiture story. 161 00:08:04,565 --> 00:08:06,056 I'm sure they are. 162 00:08:07,047 --> 00:08:09,974 It's an amazing job, by the way. You got any advice for me, or...? 163 00:08:10,330 --> 00:08:13,577 Ah, yeah. Don't let the assholes win? I don't know. 164 00:08:13,654 --> 00:08:16,341 Hey, who's Coral Baca and why does she keep calling me? 165 00:08:16,416 --> 00:08:17,988 Nobody? 166 00:08:21,622 --> 00:08:23,352 She called five times...? 167 00:08:26,426 --> 00:08:29,035 - Hola? - Hi, this is Gary Webb. 168 00:08:29,109 --> 00:08:33,118 He finally calls. I like your work. 169 00:08:33,474 --> 00:08:35,079 You follow my work? 170 00:08:35,435 --> 00:08:37,087 I do now. 171 00:08:37,838 --> 00:08:39,443 Okay, what can I do for you? 172 00:08:39,960 --> 00:08:42,329 It's what I can do for you. 173 00:08:42,563 --> 00:08:44,089 Okay, what can you do for me? 174 00:08:44,204 --> 00:08:48,133 My boyfriend Raffie's in prison, for cocaine trafficking. 175 00:08:48,288 --> 00:08:50,897 That's Rafael Cornejo. 176 00:08:51,612 --> 00:08:53,024 Was that Columbian? 177 00:08:53,093 --> 00:08:53,981 - Nicaraguan. 178 00:08:54,094 --> 00:08:55,095 - Nicaraguan. 179 00:08:55,135 --> 00:08:58,939 He has this gorgeous house the government just took. 180 00:08:59,259 --> 00:09:00,786 Good story, no? 181 00:09:00,901 --> 00:09:02,392 Yes, it is. I just wrote it. 182 00:09:02,463 --> 00:09:07,599 But Raffie's story is different. He sold drugs for the government. 183 00:09:10,671 --> 00:09:12,117 You want to say that again? 184 00:09:12,232 --> 00:09:16,127 He brought four tons of cocaine into the country... 185 00:09:16,236 --> 00:09:18,810 ...for the U.S. government. 186 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:23,569 Look, you have a very lovely voice. 187 00:09:23,644 --> 00:09:26,856 - Thank you- - I've copied every piece of paper. 188 00:09:27,047 --> 00:09:29,496 Selling drugs for the government. 189 00:09:29,610 --> 00:09:33,778 Have you written that story? 190 00:09:50,471 --> 00:09:52,395 This is the thing you need to see. 191 00:09:57,077 --> 00:09:58,364 Wait a minute. 192 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:01,772 You gotta be kidding me. 193 00:10:02,322 --> 00:10:03,849 Grand Jury transcript? 194 00:10:05,445 --> 00:10:06,733 How'd you get ahold of it? 195 00:10:06,847 --> 00:10:09,535 The government turned it over on discovery by mistake. 196 00:10:09,610 --> 00:10:11,101 Yeah, some mistake. 197 00:10:12,172 --> 00:10:14,063 It was Russell Dodson. 198 00:10:14,374 --> 00:10:16,140 Federal prosecutor Russell Dodson? 199 00:10:16,216 --> 00:10:19,348 The little bitch. I called the cops on him once. 200 00:10:19,940 --> 00:10:21,386 Called the cops on the feds? 201 00:10:21,502 --> 00:10:24,348 His goons were sneaking around my house. 202 00:10:24,705 --> 00:10:26,390 Could have been rapists. 203 00:10:29,990 --> 00:10:31,721 I think I'm gonna like you. 204 00:10:33,073 --> 00:10:35,043 So who's this Danilo Blandon? 205 00:10:35,115 --> 00:10:36,642 Wait. 206 00:10:36,717 --> 00:10:39,564 Ok. Let's see. 207 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,927 That's who sold drugs for the government. 208 00:10:43,403 --> 00:10:44,770 He was a friend. 209 00:10:44,885 --> 00:10:46,935 He played with my kid. 210 00:10:47,047 --> 00:10:48,379 Then he rats. 211 00:10:48,448 --> 00:10:51,182 He's probably the biggest trafficker in the whole country. 212 00:10:51,251 --> 00:10:53,415 Way bigger than Raffie. 213 00:10:53,534 --> 00:10:57,223 Why use whale to catch catfish? 214 00:10:59,419 --> 00:11:03,827 - That make sense to you Gary Webb? - Not very much sense. No it doesn't. 215 00:11:06,066 --> 00:11:07,752 You have more documents? 216 00:11:07,948 --> 00:11:09,918 Everything is at my house. 217 00:11:10,270 --> 00:11:11,922 You want to come over? 218 00:11:17,678 --> 00:11:21,402 Why don't you just send the documents to my office? How's that? 219 00:11:22,763 --> 00:11:26,088 First things first, Gary Webb. 220 00:11:28,769 --> 00:11:30,819 Raffie's got court tomorrow. 221 00:11:32,773 --> 00:11:34,378 - Yeah? - Be there. 222 00:12:29,109 --> 00:12:30,157 Am I late? 223 00:12:30,350 --> 00:12:32,354 The judge called an early recess. 224 00:12:33,754 --> 00:12:35,724 It could be fifteen minutes or so. 225 00:12:35,836 --> 00:12:38,922 - Right. Yeah. So we've got time. - There's my boyfriend, Raffie... 226 00:12:40,681 --> 00:12:42,526 He looks friendly. 227 00:12:42,603 --> 00:12:44,926 He doesn't like seeing me with other men. 228 00:12:46,006 --> 00:12:48,375 And there is the little bitch. 229 00:12:48,689 --> 00:12:50,454 Russell Dodson. 230 00:12:52,332 --> 00:12:53,859 Be right back. 231 00:13:08,188 --> 00:13:12,163 So, Dodson. Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury News. 232 00:13:13,714 --> 00:13:17,882 - You always follow people into bathrooms? - No. Not really. 233 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:21,692 So why is the local news interested in this case? 234 00:13:22,082 --> 00:13:23,848 I'm not. 235 00:13:24,364 --> 00:13:27,177 But I am interested in Danilo Blandon. 236 00:13:30,491 --> 00:13:32,301 Never heard of him. 237 00:13:35,335 --> 00:13:37,385 Then why is he on your witness list? 238 00:13:39,780 --> 00:13:42,753 You had this guy cold on major narcotics trafficking 239 00:13:42,823 --> 00:13:44,349 and you let him walk. 240 00:13:44,424 --> 00:13:45,712 Why? 241 00:13:48,428 --> 00:13:50,593 I have his grand jury transcript. 242 00:13:51,752 --> 00:13:51,957 I know. 243 00:13:52,072 --> 00:13:56,161 I've seen some screw ups outta you guys but boy is that a big one. 244 00:14:30,991 --> 00:14:34,316 So what's the story? Feds use a bad guy to catch other bad guy? 245 00:14:34,434 --> 00:14:37,247 - Do you even know what you have there? - Yes, I know what this is. 246 00:14:37,317 --> 00:14:39,561 Well, it's unheard of. It's a gift. 247 00:14:39,640 --> 00:14:41,006 And I asked around about Danilo Blandon. 248 00:14:41,121 --> 00:14:43,285 - No one has seemed-... - We're talking here. 249 00:14:44,925 --> 00:14:45,734 I'm telling you... 250 00:14:45,806 --> 00:14:49,291 whatever I got near, it made him very nervous. 251 00:14:50,210 --> 00:14:51,417 I know what I saw. 252 00:14:51,492 --> 00:14:53,656 - And I've been doing this a long time, - okay? So - 253 00:14:53,734 --> 00:14:56,137 Don't do old and wise. I hate that. 254 00:14:56,256 --> 00:14:57,498 I'm not old. 255 00:14:57,558 --> 00:14:59,184 Come on. It's why you brought me in here. 256 00:14:59,199 --> 00:15:00,501 To go after stories like this. 257 00:15:00,581 --> 00:15:03,508 - But we're not the LA Times. - We're not small-time, either. 258 00:15:03,664 --> 00:15:05,987 There's more here, I promise you. 259 00:15:13,474 --> 00:15:16,686 Get more info on Blandon and then we'll take it to Jerry. 260 00:15:16,797 --> 00:15:18,483 I gotta get back to San Jose. 261 00:15:18,639 --> 00:15:20,290 Okay. 262 00:15:21,842 --> 00:15:23,892 Hello, hello! 263 00:15:26,487 --> 00:15:28,058 Smells good. 264 00:15:28,448 --> 00:15:29,975 Who's Coral? 265 00:15:30,531 --> 00:15:32,136 She's hot. 266 00:15:33,213 --> 00:15:34,979 She drove a Camaro. 267 00:15:35,055 --> 00:15:36,707 Of course she did. 268 00:15:36,897 --> 00:15:38,309 She left this? 269 00:15:38,859 --> 00:15:40,670 - Eat it. - Mom, can we start? 270 00:15:40,741 --> 00:15:44,112 - Yes. - Yes. That looks so good. 271 00:15:44,184 --> 00:15:47,556 - Yummy. - Hello, gents. 272 00:15:48,068 --> 00:15:50,391 - Hi. - Why does she know where you live? 273 00:15:50,511 --> 00:15:51,843 I don't know. 274 00:15:54,154 --> 00:15:57,879 - She's a source. - Yeah? For a story about strippers? 275 00:15:57,998 --> 00:16:00,481 No. But that's a good one, though. 276 00:16:00,561 --> 00:16:01,210 Drug dealers. 277 00:16:01,281 --> 00:16:03,491 Okay. That's better. 278 00:16:06,366 --> 00:16:08,052 Is it happening again? 279 00:16:09,009 --> 00:16:11,902 - No. - Is what happening again? 280 00:16:12,212 --> 00:16:13,214 Come on. 281 00:16:13,293 --> 00:16:14,093 Nothing. 282 00:16:14,174 --> 00:16:16,224 - What's in the box? - Eat your food. 283 00:16:21,181 --> 00:16:22,514 - What happened with her? - Nothing. 284 00:16:22,583 --> 00:16:24,234 What happened with her? 285 00:16:24,585 --> 00:16:26,236 Nothing. 286 00:16:26,547 --> 00:16:29,439 I mean, I'm not going to do this again. It's why we left my family, my friends... 287 00:16:29,550 --> 00:16:32,134 - I know, I know. - ...left Cleveland, moved out to California, 288 00:16:32,232 --> 00:16:33,075 which I hate... 289 00:16:33,193 --> 00:16:36,279 all this stupid sunshine and shiny happy faces... 290 00:16:36,396 --> 00:16:39,084 - Sunshine is so dumb. It's terrible. - I'm being serious. 291 00:16:39,159 --> 00:16:41,402 I know; well so am I. 292 00:16:42,122 --> 00:16:43,363 Baby... 293 00:16:44,084 --> 00:16:45,850 I'm not going to screw this up. 294 00:16:45,926 --> 00:16:47,452 Understand? 295 00:16:47,888 --> 00:16:49,574 Don't smile. 296 00:16:51,131 --> 00:16:54,183 She said there's another hearing tomorrow. Seriously, I fucking hate you. 297 00:16:54,254 --> 00:16:56,065 I love you. 298 00:17:04,204 --> 00:17:05,737 ...dismiss all charges against Mr.Cornejo. 299 00:17:05,786 --> 00:17:10,079 We are no longer proceeding with the case, you Honor. 300 00:17:10,310 --> 00:17:11,598 Hey. 301 00:17:11,712 --> 00:17:13,124 Hi. 302 00:17:14,114 --> 00:17:15,276 So what's going on? 303 00:17:15,355 --> 00:17:17,964 I don't know. They've been up there for a while. 304 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:21,449 The charges against Mr, Cornejo are dismissed. 305 00:17:21,522 --> 00:17:23,366 You are free to go. 306 00:17:25,245 --> 00:17:26,897 What? 307 00:17:28,448 --> 00:17:31,182 Very impressive, Gary Webb. 308 00:17:31,411 --> 00:17:32,778 What just happened? 309 00:17:32,853 --> 00:17:34,983 You terrified them. 310 00:17:35,175 --> 00:17:39,070 They just stuffed Danilo Blandon under a rug. 311 00:17:39,139 --> 00:17:43,148 He's off their witness list. No Blandon, no case. 312 00:17:43,904 --> 00:17:45,874 Raffie walks. 313 00:17:53,674 --> 00:17:55,006 Hey, hey, hey- 314 00:17:56,316 --> 00:17:58,481 So you used me to get this fucking case dropped? 315 00:17:58,559 --> 00:18:00,609 I'm just the bimbo, remember? 316 00:18:02,483 --> 00:18:03,485 Yeah, fuck you. 317 00:18:03,564 --> 00:18:05,853 Be happy, Gary Webb. 318 00:18:06,847 --> 00:18:09,170 You thought you were getting a piece of cheese, 319 00:18:09,249 --> 00:18:11,493 but I just gave you the mouse. 320 00:18:13,854 --> 00:18:15,380 There's your story. 321 00:18:16,857 --> 00:18:18,463 Danilo Blandon. 322 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:01,912 West coast... 323 00:19:32,172 --> 00:19:33,585 Sorry about the air conditioning. 324 00:19:33,694 --> 00:19:35,026 Come on in. 325 00:19:37,017 --> 00:19:39,260 - How you doing? - Pretty well. 326 00:19:40,100 --> 00:19:42,754 You represent Ricky Ross, the crack dealer? 327 00:19:44,505 --> 00:19:46,349 Alleged crack dealer. 328 00:19:46,547 --> 00:19:50,032 "Freeway Ricky Ross. Biggest dealer in Los Angeles... 329 00:19:50,110 --> 00:19:53,914 the epicenter of the national crack epidemic" L.A. Times. 330 00:19:54,194 --> 00:19:55,435 Who do you write for? 331 00:19:55,516 --> 00:19:57,600 - San Jose Mercury News. - Never heard of them. 332 00:19:57,718 --> 00:20:00,087 Russell Dodson is the prosecutor on your case? 333 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,812 That's public record. Yes. 334 00:20:01,962 --> 00:20:03,887 What about Danilo Blandon? 335 00:20:04,725 --> 00:20:07,518 - Maybe. - Because I think he's going to testify 336 00:20:07,628 --> 00:20:08,837 against your client tomorrow. 337 00:20:08,869 --> 00:20:11,456 No, you've got that backwards. 338 00:20:11,572 --> 00:20:14,738 Blandon and my client are friends and associates. 339 00:20:14,815 --> 00:20:18,300 If he's going to testify, he'll be testifying for Ricky. 340 00:20:18,659 --> 00:20:20,310 That would be awkward. 341 00:20:20,461 --> 00:20:21,987 Why's that? 342 00:20:22,182 --> 00:20:23,993 Because he's a government informant. 343 00:20:24,064 --> 00:20:25,065 That's bullshit. 344 00:20:25,105 --> 00:20:28,191 I have a Grand Jury transcript released on discovery by mistake... 345 00:20:28,308 --> 00:20:29,800 by our Russell Dodson. 346 00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:33,555 In it is evidence of Blandon testifying against other drug dealers. 347 00:20:42,162 --> 00:20:44,850 Goddammit! 348 00:20:45,005 --> 00:20:47,009 Jesus, does that make sense. 349 00:20:47,087 --> 00:20:50,378 You would not believe the horseshit that Dodson puts me through... 350 00:20:50,491 --> 00:20:52,495 every time I ask him who his secret weapon is. 351 00:20:52,513 --> 00:20:53,601 Well it's not just Ricky, 352 00:20:53,614 --> 00:20:56,587 it's probably half a dozen guys he's going to testify against- 353 00:20:56,657 --> 00:20:58,980 Fuck me! They block me! 354 00:20:59,059 --> 00:21:00,825 Every time I ask for something. 355 00:21:00,941 --> 00:21:02,148 Claiming - get this - 356 00:21:02,222 --> 00:21:04,033 National Security. 357 00:21:04,184 --> 00:21:07,236 National security and crack cocaine in the same sentence? 358 00:21:07,427 --> 00:21:09,238 Does that not sound strange to you? 359 00:21:16,396 --> 00:21:18,800 Ok, what exactly do you want? 360 00:21:30,611 --> 00:21:31,693 Who's this? 361 00:21:32,172 --> 00:21:33,664 He's a reporter. 362 00:21:36,336 --> 00:21:38,306 So what do you know about Danilo Blandon? 363 00:21:44,064 --> 00:21:45,909 I don't know him. 364 00:21:49,229 --> 00:21:52,441 Come on Ricky. Danilo's going to testify against you tomorrow. 365 00:21:52,553 --> 00:21:54,796 He's the witness they've been hiding. 366 00:21:56,036 --> 00:21:57,881 Man, there ain't no way they flipped Danilo! 367 00:21:58,038 --> 00:22:01,090 Sit down, and listen to what he has to say. 368 00:22:04,685 --> 00:22:06,336 They didn't flip anyone. 369 00:22:07,207 --> 00:22:08,859 Ricky, 370 00:22:08,929 --> 00:22:11,742 Blandon was working for the government the entire time. 371 00:22:12,893 --> 00:22:14,863 - You for real? - Yeah. 372 00:22:14,935 --> 00:22:16,860 He for real? 373 00:22:17,217 --> 00:22:19,381 Blandon a snitch? 374 00:22:19,660 --> 00:22:21,585 Look here, man, he was a thousand time heavier than 375 00:22:21,662 --> 00:22:22,585 I'll ever be. 376 00:22:22,663 --> 00:22:25,396 He's LA, New York, Atlanta, He's everywhere. 377 00:22:25,466 --> 00:22:27,709 I couldn't sell it fast enough to keep up with supply. 378 00:22:27,788 --> 00:22:29,554 - Slow down. - Wait. You mean demand. 379 00:22:29,630 --> 00:22:31,281 No. I mean supply. 380 00:22:31,351 --> 00:22:33,675 I was buying a hundred kilos a week. 381 00:22:33,754 --> 00:22:35,724 Selling three million dollars a day. 382 00:22:35,796 --> 00:22:37,926 And still couldn't get rid of that inventory fast enough, man. 383 00:22:38,038 --> 00:22:39,039 It was raining coke. 384 00:22:39,079 --> 00:22:39,729 - Allegedly, Ricky. - Allegedly. 385 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:41,132 Allegedly. 386 00:22:41,241 --> 00:22:46,291 Look here, man. I gave him... six million a week. Allegedly. 387 00:22:49,129 --> 00:22:51,099 - That's impossible. - Is it? 388 00:22:51,932 --> 00:22:54,141 - I'm exaggerating, Fenster? - Yeah, I hope so. 389 00:22:54,214 --> 00:22:56,344 How do you sell that much cocaine on the street? 390 00:22:56,456 --> 00:22:58,142 Look here, man, we used to cook it. 391 00:22:58,218 --> 00:22:59,459 With baking soda. 392 00:22:59,580 --> 00:23:02,792 We called it Ready Rock. Powder was for rich folks. 393 00:23:02,903 --> 00:23:04,555 Holy shit. 394 00:23:05,225 --> 00:23:09,792 Look here, man, I was just the elf. Blandon was Santa Claus. 395 00:23:22,122 --> 00:23:24,492 This is where Ricky ran his operation. 396 00:23:28,448 --> 00:23:30,259 No, don't get out of the car! 397 00:24:14,695 --> 00:24:16,620 Are you out of your fucking mind? 398 00:24:18,178 --> 00:24:19,180 How did this happen? 399 00:24:19,259 --> 00:24:21,708 Exactly. Which is why we're going to get the hell out of here. 400 00:24:21,782 --> 00:24:24,390 What about this doesn't piss you off? 401 00:24:24,945 --> 00:24:26,152 It's complicated for me. 402 00:24:26,226 --> 00:24:28,550 Whatever the hell happened, all this shit has run downhill, 403 00:24:28,629 --> 00:24:29,711 right here. 404 00:24:30,350 --> 00:24:32,161 I need to speak with Blandon. 405 00:24:32,212 --> 00:24:33,494 He's a protected witness. How are you going to do that? 406 00:24:33,514 --> 00:24:36,600 Yes, I know. I can't. 407 00:24:37,558 --> 00:24:39,528 But you can. 408 00:24:42,362 --> 00:24:43,695 Mr. Blandon. 409 00:24:44,284 --> 00:24:46,574 During the years when you were acting as a paid 410 00:24:46,687 --> 00:24:48,213 informant of the U.S. government. 411 00:24:48,288 --> 00:24:53,644 The years you say you wholesaled cocaine to my client in Los Angeles... 412 00:24:53,654 --> 00:24:55,230 was the government aware that you were 413 00:24:55,255 --> 00:24:57,909 smuggling tons of cocaine into the United States. 414 00:24:58,018 --> 00:25:00,991 Objection. Relevance. Inflammatory. 415 00:25:01,061 --> 00:25:03,065 The government called this witness, your honor. 416 00:25:03,223 --> 00:25:05,752 He is a paid confidential informant. 417 00:25:05,826 --> 00:25:08,912 The jury has a right to know the scope of his expertise. 418 00:25:09,429 --> 00:25:11,354 Overruled. 419 00:25:13,594 --> 00:25:15,758 - Approach, your honor? - Later. 420 00:25:18,398 --> 00:25:19,845 Mr. Blandon? 421 00:25:20,921 --> 00:25:21,923 Yes. 422 00:25:22,002 --> 00:25:23,813 - Yes what? - The government knew. 423 00:25:23,924 --> 00:25:27,136 - Knew everything? - Objection. Speculation. 424 00:25:27,287 --> 00:25:29,257 Sustained. 425 00:25:29,449 --> 00:25:30,737 Mr. Blandon... 426 00:25:30,811 --> 00:25:34,296 how much money did you take in from cocaine sales 427 00:25:34,374 --> 00:25:37,062 while you were working for the U.S. government? 428 00:25:40,821 --> 00:25:44,796 One and a half billion dollars. 429 00:25:44,865 --> 00:25:46,106 That's correct. 430 00:25:46,266 --> 00:25:47,872 What did you do with that money? 431 00:25:47,948 --> 00:25:53,323 We made so much money we had to keep an apartment just to keep the cash. 432 00:25:54,074 --> 00:25:56,683 It was floor to ceiling dollars. 433 00:25:56,957 --> 00:25:59,360 We had to rotate the money from the top to the bottom... 434 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,492 to prevent mold from coming on the money from the humidity. 435 00:26:04,565 --> 00:26:05,473 What the fuck does this say? 436 00:26:05,486 --> 00:26:07,536 Did he have a partner or a government agency he 437 00:26:07,648 --> 00:26:09,299 was working with? 438 00:26:09,369 --> 00:26:14,141 Mr. Blandon, were you working with a partner at that time? 439 00:26:14,294 --> 00:26:15,342 Yes. 440 00:26:15,856 --> 00:26:19,068 Norwin Meneses. 441 00:26:19,139 --> 00:26:20,506 That's correct. 442 00:26:20,521 --> 00:26:22,904 Wait a second, what exactly is happening here, your honor? 443 00:26:22,943 --> 00:26:26,075 Clearly, this reporter is giving direction to counsel. 444 00:26:26,146 --> 00:26:28,196 - Approach. - Thank you. 445 00:26:31,191 --> 00:26:34,357 Your honor, this man in the first row is a reporter 446 00:26:34,434 --> 00:26:36,040 and he's giving questions to counsel. 447 00:26:36,156 --> 00:26:38,001 If he is, and I'm not saying that he is... 448 00:26:38,078 --> 00:26:40,003 Well, he is. 449 00:26:43,003 --> 00:26:46,374 Ok, he is. But there's nothing in the rules that says he can't. 450 00:26:46,446 --> 00:26:47,654 I don't like it. 451 00:26:47,728 --> 00:26:49,732 But I'm not going to stop it. For now. 452 00:26:49,850 --> 00:26:52,743 Then I am compelled to warn the court that this door leads to 453 00:26:52,853 --> 00:26:55,301 very sensitive national security matters. 454 00:26:55,375 --> 00:26:57,665 Then maybe you shouldn't have opened it. 455 00:27:05,666 --> 00:27:09,561 Mr. Blandon, is it true that you and Norwin Meneses... 456 00:27:09,630 --> 00:27:13,559 were in communication with the federal government together? 457 00:27:15,876 --> 00:27:18,199 Can you tell us who in the federal government you 458 00:27:18,358 --> 00:27:19,930 were in communication with? 459 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:21,726 Who were you working with? 460 00:27:23,003 --> 00:27:24,609 The FBI? 461 00:27:30,731 --> 00:27:34,979 Mr. Dodson can't answer that question for you, Mr. Blandon. 462 00:27:35,175 --> 00:27:37,579 Remember, you're under oath. 463 00:27:38,418 --> 00:27:40,422 The DEA? 464 00:27:41,782 --> 00:27:43,627 No. 465 00:27:43,824 --> 00:27:46,033 It was the CIA. 466 00:27:46,106 --> 00:27:48,874 The Central Intelligence Agency. 467 00:27:50,430 --> 00:27:52,434 Yes. 468 00:27:52,993 --> 00:27:55,282 So, Mr. Blandon... 469 00:27:55,996 --> 00:27:58,285 what did the CIA have you do? 470 00:27:58,438 --> 00:28:00,044 Objection! Relevance, your honor! 471 00:28:00,120 --> 00:28:03,606 Overruled. Mr. Blandon, answer the question. 472 00:28:17,097 --> 00:28:20,422 We were asked to support... 473 00:28:20,781 --> 00:28:25,474 a free and democratic Nicaragua - the Contras... 474 00:28:25,546 --> 00:28:27,117 the rebels... 475 00:28:27,628 --> 00:28:31,078 by sending planes into Nicaragua and raising money here 476 00:28:31,151 --> 00:28:33,634 in the U.S. for the war. 477 00:28:36,997 --> 00:28:38,808 Mr. Blandon... 478 00:28:39,399 --> 00:28:44,410 did the CIA specifically know that you were selling cocaine... 479 00:28:44,485 --> 00:28:47,492 to buy guns and supplies to support its cause? 480 00:28:47,568 --> 00:28:51,782 Objection! This line of questioning has absolutely no relevance. 481 00:28:51,852 --> 00:28:54,334 Overruled. 482 00:28:55,295 --> 00:28:57,585 They knew who we were. 483 00:28:57,858 --> 00:29:00,227 Why else would they come to us? 484 00:29:15,556 --> 00:29:16,795 The day Ronald Reagan got elected, 485 00:29:16,821 --> 00:29:18,654 the Cubans and the Soviets started triggering... 486 00:29:18,739 --> 00:29:20,962 revolutions all over South and Central America. 487 00:29:21,041 --> 00:29:22,328 And when they got Nicaragua... 488 00:29:22,483 --> 00:29:23,929 that put them fifty miles from the Panama Canal. 489 00:29:24,004 --> 00:29:25,379 Reagan drew the line in the sand. 490 00:29:25,526 --> 00:29:28,088 And that's where America was going to win the Cold War. Except... 491 00:29:28,168 --> 00:29:30,971 Congress hated Reagan's guts, so they wanted nothing to do with him. 492 00:29:31,011 --> 00:29:33,699 They were never going to fund his little Contra war. 493 00:29:33,814 --> 00:29:36,548 So the White House needed money. Lots and lots of money. 494 00:29:36,617 --> 00:29:37,701 Guys, that's the eighties. 495 00:29:37,738 --> 00:29:38,661 It's ten year old news. What's the story? 496 00:29:38,739 --> 00:29:39,342 Jerry, just let him finish. 497 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:44,671 Look, one of the DEA's most wanted - not only not in jail for eternity... 498 00:29:44,745 --> 00:29:46,316 but apparently on the government payroll. 499 00:29:46,386 --> 00:29:48,551 Admitting in open court that he brought in thousands 500 00:29:48,669 --> 00:29:51,151 of kilos of cocaine to the US every day. 501 00:29:51,231 --> 00:29:52,074 For them. 502 00:29:52,192 --> 00:29:52,842 For who? 503 00:29:52,913 --> 00:29:54,325 The US government. Or with them. 504 00:29:54,394 --> 00:29:56,684 Or at least while they were looking the other way. 505 00:29:56,877 --> 00:29:57,720 Jesus. 506 00:29:57,798 --> 00:29:59,723 That little stunt you pulled in that courtroom... 507 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:02,852 I got complaints from Justice in Sacramento and Washington. 508 00:30:02,923 --> 00:30:04,005 Yeah, but I got Blandon. 509 00:30:04,084 --> 00:30:05,211 Jerry. 510 00:30:05,726 --> 00:30:08,299 This is the biggest story the Merc's ever had. 511 00:30:08,368 --> 00:30:11,740 That's what worries me. A lot of blind spots, you know? 512 00:30:11,852 --> 00:30:14,221 We don't know Washington. We don't do International. 513 00:30:14,334 --> 00:30:15,177 We do now. 514 00:30:15,255 --> 00:30:18,148 We do, do we? How many CIA sources to you have? 515 00:30:18,218 --> 00:30:20,222 - None yet. - Get one. 516 00:30:21,742 --> 00:30:23,508 What are they saying officially? 517 00:30:23,944 --> 00:30:25,356 They're not even calling me back. 518 00:30:26,747 --> 00:30:28,318 Holy shit. 519 00:30:29,510 --> 00:30:30,637 Gary... 520 00:30:30,751 --> 00:30:33,598 You get some sources on the record, see where we're at. 521 00:30:33,674 --> 00:30:35,325 Watch your ass. 522 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,245 The success of Communism in Central America poses the threat... 523 00:30:43,363 --> 00:30:47,578 that a hundred million people from Panama to the open border at our south... 524 00:30:47,648 --> 00:30:50,734 could come under the control of pro-Soviet regimes. 525 00:30:50,931 --> 00:30:52,901 If we cut off the freedom fighters... 526 00:30:52,973 --> 00:30:57,141 we will be giving the Soviets a free hand in Central America. 527 00:32:06,446 --> 00:32:08,177 Mr.Meneses? 528 00:32:09,329 --> 00:32:12,017 Hi. Gary Webb. How are you? 529 00:32:13,413 --> 00:32:16,546 Ok. What took you so long? 530 00:32:17,898 --> 00:32:19,504 How's that? 531 00:32:19,660 --> 00:32:22,142 No other reporter has ever tried to find me. 532 00:32:23,063 --> 00:32:25,193 Are you a friend, Mr. Webb? 533 00:32:25,265 --> 00:32:28,192 Because your country is no longer a friend of mine. 534 00:32:28,629 --> 00:32:30,394 I'm not an enemy. 535 00:32:33,674 --> 00:32:34,915 You play golf? 536 00:32:36,877 --> 00:32:38,368 Hockey. 537 00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:41,408 Step into my parlor. 538 00:32:57,017 --> 00:32:58,383 The five iron. 539 00:32:58,899 --> 00:33:00,903 A perfectly designed club. 540 00:33:01,542 --> 00:33:05,231 In golf, if you have a five iron, you don't need anything else. 541 00:33:05,305 --> 00:33:09,075 If you use it, like a tool. You can carve any shot in the game. 542 00:33:09,149 --> 00:33:12,714 You can even slice a man open if you know how to use it properly. 543 00:33:18,158 --> 00:33:20,562 So, guns for drugs... 544 00:33:22,002 --> 00:33:25,407 You know, it's easy to think that this situation was only about drugs. 545 00:33:25,526 --> 00:33:27,929 But you need to look at it from our point of view. 546 00:33:28,008 --> 00:33:31,254 If the Contra movement would have no friends and no money... 547 00:33:31,331 --> 00:33:33,940 we would have been forced to live under a government that tells you what to say, 548 00:33:34,054 --> 00:33:36,423 what not to say, what to think, what not to think. 549 00:33:36,497 --> 00:33:38,706 If you were me, would you sit still and watch as your 550 00:33:38,779 --> 00:33:39,268 children are forced... 551 00:33:39,379 --> 00:33:45,154 to live a life of irrelevance and servitude? 552 00:33:45,385 --> 00:33:47,276 And you watched from the deck of your yacht? 553 00:33:47,347 --> 00:33:48,714 My yacht? 554 00:33:48,789 --> 00:33:52,957 Norwin, you were arrested for trafficking narcotics for the first time in 1975. 555 00:33:53,033 --> 00:33:55,322 That's ten years before the Contra war. 556 00:33:55,796 --> 00:33:58,643 Come on, you're not a freedom fighter. 557 00:33:59,279 --> 00:34:01,283 I thought you were my friend. 558 00:34:01,522 --> 00:34:03,207 Just looking for the truth. 559 00:34:03,283 --> 00:34:05,094 Well you're gonna get the truth. 560 00:34:05,165 --> 00:34:07,329 You got someone else down here I could talk to? 561 00:34:07,447 --> 00:34:10,101 I can introduce you to my banker, Mr. Baier. 562 00:34:10,170 --> 00:34:11,776 I'd like that. 563 00:34:19,019 --> 00:34:21,149 Come, I show you the airstrip now. 564 00:34:24,384 --> 00:34:25,831 So when did all of this start? 565 00:34:26,026 --> 00:34:29,477 They were always looking for ways to raise money to fight this war. 566 00:34:30,310 --> 00:34:32,475 There was this one time when Ollie... 567 00:34:33,193 --> 00:34:35,676 Ollie went to his friends in Washington, 568 00:34:35,836 --> 00:34:39,127 - and this is years ago- - Oliver North? 569 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:40,612 Oliver North. 570 00:34:40,801 --> 00:34:43,569 No, Oliver Hardy. Yes, Oliver North. 571 00:34:43,644 --> 00:34:47,094 So he said why don't we use the cash seized from the cocaine arrests... 572 00:34:47,167 --> 00:34:49,537 to fund and support the Contra war? 573 00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:51,301 Of course, they declined you know. 574 00:34:51,371 --> 00:34:52,419 But as you can see, 575 00:34:52,493 --> 00:34:55,659 Ollie wasn't the only person with ideas like this. 576 00:35:02,142 --> 00:35:03,509 Did it have to be drugs? 577 00:35:03,904 --> 00:35:05,988 The ends justify the means. 578 00:35:06,426 --> 00:35:07,714 Yeah, write that down. 579 00:35:07,868 --> 00:35:09,520 You Americans don't want coconuts or bananas. 580 00:35:09,630 --> 00:35:12,363 You want cocaine, and I know where to find cocaine. 581 00:35:12,473 --> 00:35:17,005 And my pilots were already flying from Central America to the United States. 582 00:35:17,077 --> 00:35:18,683 And they were American. 583 00:35:18,839 --> 00:35:20,570 How long ago was this shut down? 584 00:35:21,081 --> 00:35:23,530 Eight to ten years ago. 585 00:35:24,885 --> 00:35:26,969 The land is now privately owned. 586 00:35:30,090 --> 00:35:34,544 If I was in the CIA and I was risking my life overseas doing something illegal... 587 00:35:34,975 --> 00:35:40,066 believe me, I would want someone like me to help do the job. 588 00:35:40,661 --> 00:35:42,745 Write this name down: Fred Weil. 589 00:35:42,903 --> 00:35:44,669 W-E-I-L 590 00:35:44,985 --> 00:35:46,910 That's the guy you have to talk to. 591 00:35:48,709 --> 00:35:49,950 What was stored here? 592 00:35:50,070 --> 00:35:53,043 Weapons. Cash. 593 00:35:53,113 --> 00:35:55,847 Lots and lots of cash. 594 00:35:57,918 --> 00:35:59,729 These pilots, do you know their names? 595 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,725 I don't know. 596 00:36:03,644 --> 00:36:05,806 Now that you know the truth, you will be faced with the 597 00:36:05,846 --> 00:36:07,691 most important decision of your life. 598 00:36:07,768 --> 00:36:09,419 Oh yeah. What's that? 599 00:36:10,090 --> 00:36:12,220 Deciding whether to share it or not. 600 00:36:15,415 --> 00:36:17,705 You have a family? You married? 601 00:36:21,502 --> 00:36:23,312 Like I said. 602 00:36:27,267 --> 00:36:32,153 The pilots used little airstrips in Florida, Arizona, California. 603 00:36:32,272 --> 00:36:33,685 Come. 604 00:36:53,253 --> 00:36:54,745 I'll take care of it. 605 00:36:56,256 --> 00:36:58,739 Down on your knees. Keep your head down. 606 00:36:59,540 --> 00:37:00,702 Don't answer that. 607 00:37:03,464 --> 00:37:05,274 Passport. 608 00:37:20,481 --> 00:37:22,804 Yes, we have to go now. We're leaving. 609 00:37:22,963 --> 00:37:25,206 Nice and calm. 610 00:37:27,447 --> 00:37:29,338 Nice and calm. 611 00:38:09,770 --> 00:38:10,613 You're where? 612 00:38:10,691 --> 00:38:12,695 I'm in DC. And look, don't worry. 613 00:38:12,813 --> 00:38:13,613 You want me here. 614 00:38:13,654 --> 00:38:14,816 Trust me on this, Anna. 615 00:38:14,895 --> 00:38:15,863 The guys are getting nervous. 616 00:38:15,976 --> 00:38:17,138 You're supposed to be back here. 617 00:38:17,217 --> 00:38:20,064 Look, I changed planes in Miami. I kept all my receipts. 618 00:38:20,180 --> 00:38:23,506 I'll pay for my own damn flight back home if I have to, all right? 619 00:38:23,584 --> 00:38:24,392 We can't do this on the phone, 620 00:38:24,465 --> 00:38:26,434 and I don't want to do this on the phone. 621 00:38:26,547 --> 00:38:28,836 Look, I've got to go. 622 00:38:42,042 --> 00:38:43,169 Fred Weil? 623 00:38:44,124 --> 00:38:46,254 Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury-News. 624 00:38:46,446 --> 00:38:48,736 I don't talk to the press. Call Public Affairs. 625 00:38:50,370 --> 00:38:52,215 I spoke to Norwin Meneses. 626 00:38:57,017 --> 00:39:00,183 That's classified. How did you get it? 627 00:39:00,621 --> 00:39:02,466 Got it from a drug dealer. 628 00:39:05,145 --> 00:39:06,352 Perfect. 629 00:39:08,028 --> 00:39:13,518 Listen, I was John Kerry's lead investigator on the senate subcommittee that investigated this. 630 00:39:13,594 --> 00:39:16,806 You have no idea what you're getting into. 631 00:39:19,159 --> 00:39:20,207 Why don't you tell me? 632 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:21,886 Tell me what I'm getting into. 633 00:39:27,848 --> 00:39:30,934 I'm on the National Security Council now. 634 00:39:31,932 --> 00:39:35,782 And I have the trust of the President and his cabinet. 635 00:39:37,978 --> 00:39:41,428 It took me ten years to get back to that place. 636 00:39:41,502 --> 00:39:43,905 Your name goes nowhere near this. 637 00:39:44,304 --> 00:39:47,517 This conversation never happened. You have my word on that. 638 00:39:49,069 --> 00:39:50,671 You ever done anything like this before? 639 00:39:50,751 --> 00:39:51,913 No. 640 00:39:51,992 --> 00:39:53,199 Has your paper? 641 00:39:53,313 --> 00:39:54,646 Not that I'm aware of. 642 00:39:56,877 --> 00:39:59,166 Some fancy information that you have there. 643 00:40:00,801 --> 00:40:02,372 And dangerous. 644 00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:04,533 I'd be remiss if I didn't tell you that other reporters 645 00:40:04,645 --> 00:40:07,457 have been down this rabbit hole. 646 00:40:07,528 --> 00:40:10,374 Seasoned reporters. Who knew their way around Washington. 647 00:40:10,491 --> 00:40:11,492 And Central America. 648 00:40:11,532 --> 00:40:14,014 - So what are you telling me? - I had an American citizen... 649 00:40:14,174 --> 00:40:18,342 a rich Republican Party fund-raiser, a White House favorite, in my office.. 650 00:40:18,418 --> 00:40:20,263 upset about things he was hearing. 651 00:40:20,340 --> 00:40:23,347 He believed in freedom and defeating communism... 652 00:40:23,423 --> 00:40:26,350 but not in laundering narcotics money for guns. 653 00:40:26,426 --> 00:40:30,116 And he's sitting in my office in the U.S. Senate... 654 00:40:30,190 --> 00:40:35,042 and he gets a phone call telling him that if he talked to me... 655 00:40:35,195 --> 00:40:36,722 he'd die. 656 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,926 This is your ticket out of small time, right? 657 00:40:43,363 --> 00:40:45,972 - You're going to make your bones on this. - This is a true story 658 00:40:46,046 --> 00:40:48,939 My friend, some stories are just too true to tell. 659 00:40:50,531 --> 00:40:52,182 That's bullshit. 660 00:40:52,252 --> 00:40:53,459 Yeah? 661 00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:57,226 And yes, it is. 662 00:40:57,538 --> 00:40:59,508 Congratulations. You figured that out. 663 00:41:03,063 --> 00:41:04,988 “Too true to tell.” 664 00:41:14,915 --> 00:41:18,240 Welcome to San Francisco International airport. 665 00:41:18,318 --> 00:41:20,801 Please do not leave your bags unattended. 666 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:04,515 Sometimes I wish I could just climb inside that head of yours 667 00:43:05,025 --> 00:43:07,268 and see all the shit you carry around. 668 00:43:07,347 --> 00:43:08,839 Really? 669 00:43:08,909 --> 00:43:11,677 No. Not really. 670 00:43:15,435 --> 00:43:17,166 There's too many bad guys. 671 00:43:18,599 --> 00:43:20,170 And ghosts. 672 00:43:20,481 --> 00:43:23,214 And scary monsters running around. 673 00:43:23,484 --> 00:43:26,889 Well, what do you want me to do, Sue? Do something else for a living? 674 00:43:28,368 --> 00:43:29,531 No. 675 00:43:35,375 --> 00:43:37,027 This one just scares me. 676 00:43:42,943 --> 00:43:43,944 Be careful. 677 00:43:45,866 --> 00:43:47,028 Hey. 678 00:43:55,716 --> 00:43:56,717 Yeah. 679 00:44:02,923 --> 00:44:04,449 Jesus. 680 00:44:08,729 --> 00:44:09,731 Hello? 681 00:44:09,850 --> 00:44:11,581 It's Russell Dodson. 682 00:44:15,455 --> 00:44:16,947 Hello, Russell Dodson. 683 00:44:17,057 --> 00:44:20,223 Listen, we haven't handled this right at all. 684 00:44:20,380 --> 00:44:22,670 Before you print anything, there's a few guys from 685 00:44:22,743 --> 00:44:25,066 D.C. that would like to sit down with you. 686 00:44:25,626 --> 00:44:27,517 You should hear them out. 687 00:44:28,709 --> 00:44:30,155 I'm listening. 688 00:44:51,131 --> 00:44:52,213 Gary. 689 00:44:52,533 --> 00:44:53,899 Thanks for coming. 690 00:44:53,974 --> 00:44:56,628 I'm Agent Miller, and this is Agent Jones. 691 00:44:56,937 --> 00:44:59,625 - Can we get you a cup of coffee? - No. 692 00:45:00,180 --> 00:45:02,150 How about one of those cappuccinos? 693 00:45:02,262 --> 00:45:06,477 Just got a new espresso machine probably cost the tax payers thirty grand. 694 00:45:07,708 --> 00:45:09,120 No, I'm fine. 695 00:45:10,991 --> 00:45:12,757 Get him a cappuccino. 696 00:45:16,837 --> 00:45:18,879 Now we don't agree with everything that happens in 697 00:45:18,919 --> 00:45:21,528 our agencies, so this is a little awkward for us. 698 00:45:21,642 --> 00:45:24,933 But you're getting into some sensitive areas. 699 00:45:25,005 --> 00:45:29,059 There are ongoing operations you're in danger of exposing. 700 00:45:29,409 --> 00:45:33,304 Operations that have taken months, years to set up. 701 00:45:33,453 --> 00:45:36,666 Thousands of man hours, millions to fund. 702 00:45:40,501 --> 00:45:41,992 And how do you know that? 703 00:45:42,422 --> 00:45:46,830 We know you were in Nicaragua. We know you saw Meneses. 704 00:45:51,151 --> 00:45:52,723 Am I being followed? 705 00:45:53,233 --> 00:45:54,234 What's your angle, Webb? 706 00:45:54,314 --> 00:45:56,843 Some governmental informants are scumbags? 707 00:45:56,917 --> 00:45:59,959 Look, I was under the impression that you guys had something to say to me? 708 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,845 But, to answer your question, no. 709 00:46:01,962 --> 00:46:04,092 My angle is that the American government knew drugs were 710 00:46:04,164 --> 00:46:06,328 put on the streets to fund an illegal war. 711 00:46:06,446 --> 00:46:09,533 What you want to say happened, never happened. 712 00:46:13,293 --> 00:46:15,104 Then why am I here? 713 00:46:15,335 --> 00:46:16,862 American kids... 714 00:46:16,937 --> 00:46:18,703 were going to die in that war. 715 00:46:19,019 --> 00:46:21,832 American kids did die. They're still dying. 716 00:46:22,022 --> 00:46:24,551 Just not the ones you care about, apparently. 717 00:46:24,905 --> 00:46:27,559 We'd never threaten your children, Mr. Webb. 718 00:46:27,628 --> 00:46:29,358 My children? 719 00:46:30,471 --> 00:46:32,281 What did you say? 720 00:46:43,043 --> 00:46:44,729 I'm writing the story. 721 00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,927 Okay. I'm about to press “send”. 722 00:48:43,203 --> 00:48:45,732 We're ready. All hands on deck. 723 00:48:45,846 --> 00:48:47,498 Don't over-edit it. 724 00:48:48,008 --> 00:48:49,249 Don't worry. 725 00:48:50,971 --> 00:48:51,972 Anna. 726 00:48:52,172 --> 00:48:54,542 Gary. I got it. 727 00:48:55,335 --> 00:48:57,339 Go enjoy your family. 728 00:49:16,837 --> 00:49:19,001 Let's go, let's go, let's go! 729 00:49:19,079 --> 00:49:21,688 All right last one in is a rotten egg! 730 00:49:25,886 --> 00:49:27,572 Is it cold or warm? 731 00:49:27,728 --> 00:49:28,571 - It's warm. - Ready? 732 00:49:28,729 --> 00:49:30,779 All right; precious cargo. 733 00:49:32,533 --> 00:49:33,945 Dizzy yet? 734 00:49:34,054 --> 00:49:35,181 - No. - Okay. 735 00:49:35,255 --> 00:49:37,339 Come on, Momma! 736 00:49:37,417 --> 00:49:39,502 - Come on, Mom, get in. - Why do they gang up on momma? 737 00:49:39,580 --> 00:49:43,304 - You have to dry my hair! - Where you going, Dad? 738 00:49:44,745 --> 00:49:46,795 - Dad... - Don't! 739 00:49:59,119 --> 00:50:01,089 Dad, it's up! It's online! 740 00:50:01,562 --> 00:50:02,689 Mom! 741 00:50:03,363 --> 00:50:06,769 Oh my god, Mom, check this out. It just went up. It's everywhere. 742 00:50:07,888 --> 00:50:08,688 Gary! 743 00:50:08,769 --> 00:50:09,896 For the better part of a decade, 744 00:50:09,970 --> 00:50:12,704 a San Francisco Bay-area drug ring sold tons of cocaine... 745 00:50:12,773 --> 00:50:16,023 to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions... 746 00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:18,625 in drug profits to Latin American guerrilla army run 747 00:50:18,779 --> 00:50:20,145 by the US Central Intelligence Agency... 748 00:50:20,260 --> 00:50:22,185 a Mercury news investigation has found. 749 00:50:22,262 --> 00:50:25,012 This drug network opened the first pipeline between Columbia and... 750 00:50:38,198 --> 00:50:39,280 Hey. 751 00:50:40,961 --> 00:50:42,452 Hey. 752 00:50:43,323 --> 00:50:44,895 You did it. 753 00:50:46,206 --> 00:50:47,812 Yeah. 754 00:50:49,169 --> 00:50:51,173 Want to go fool around in the woods? 755 00:50:54,334 --> 00:50:55,134 Yeah. 756 00:50:55,175 --> 00:50:57,829 - Yes, I do. - Yes, I do. 757 00:50:59,139 --> 00:51:02,864 - Don't look, don't look. - Hey, come on! 758 00:51:02,983 --> 00:51:06,308 You should see our switchboard! It is lit up like a Christmas tree! 759 00:51:06,386 --> 00:51:08,428 We're getting calls from all over the world. Gary. 760 00:51:08,469 --> 00:51:09,915 What do you want to do? 761 00:51:09,990 --> 00:51:12,473 Well, it's just the beginning, isn't it? 762 00:51:12,593 --> 00:51:14,323 I think there's more to do. 763 00:51:14,434 --> 00:51:16,804 Got to keep riding out the story. Keep digging. 764 00:51:16,877 --> 00:51:17,686 Anything you need. 765 00:51:17,838 --> 00:51:20,002 Okay? But take a victory lap. 766 00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,284 Hey, that graphic you guys used? 767 00:51:22,362 --> 00:51:24,936 The crack pipe on the CIA emblem? 768 00:51:25,125 --> 00:51:25,968 Are you out of your mind? 769 00:51:26,046 --> 00:51:27,971 It's like the CIA is cooking crack in their basement. 770 00:51:28,048 --> 00:51:31,260 Gary. That was my idea, so blame me, but come on. 771 00:51:31,331 --> 00:51:32,903 We got their attention, didn't we? 772 00:51:33,013 --> 00:51:35,336 We're just calling to say thanks for doing this. 773 00:51:35,415 --> 00:51:39,903 - There is a lot of pride here this morning. - Congratulations, buddy. 774 00:51:40,020 --> 00:51:41,352 Hey. Gary. 775 00:51:41,421 --> 00:51:42,788 Yeah? 776 00:51:42,983 --> 00:51:44,349 You did it. 777 00:51:44,465 --> 00:51:46,070 This is the big one. 778 00:51:46,507 --> 00:51:48,397 Enjoy yourself! 779 00:52:13,053 --> 00:52:16,424 Let's focus on the Washington Post, New York Times and the LA Times. 780 00:52:16,537 --> 00:52:18,347 And get Richard Zuckerman on the phone. 781 00:52:30,390 --> 00:52:34,160 What interests me is who is gonna tell me how we missed this goddamned story. 782 00:52:34,234 --> 00:52:36,000 How'd the San Jose Mercury News, 783 00:52:36,076 --> 00:52:38,923 a paper one-fifth the size of the Los Angeles Times... 784 00:52:39,039 --> 00:52:40,930 and three hundred miles away-scooped us... 785 00:52:41,041 --> 00:52:42,168 on one of the most important stories in this city in, 786 00:52:42,242 --> 00:52:44,451 in what? Twenty years? 787 00:52:44,645 --> 00:52:46,854 How about you, Rich? Didn't you cover Ricky Ross? 788 00:52:46,927 --> 00:52:48,579 - Parts of it. - Yeah, apparently the wrong parts. 789 00:52:48,689 --> 00:52:50,170 We had Blandon in one of our stories. 790 00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:51,856 - As what? - A government source. 791 00:52:51,932 --> 00:52:53,094 He's also apparently almost single-handedly 792 00:52:53,213 --> 00:52:54,944 responsible for the crack epidemic. 793 00:52:55,055 --> 00:52:56,468 Which, by the way, started right here... 794 00:52:56,577 --> 00:53:00,426 in Watts, five fucking miles from where we're sitting. 795 00:53:01,462 --> 00:53:02,510 Look, I don't need to tell you this... 796 00:53:02,583 --> 00:53:06,672 but if this story stands, some of your people are going to jail. 797 00:53:06,747 --> 00:53:09,195 The idea that any one person could have played a decisive 798 00:53:09,269 --> 00:53:09,520 role in the crack epidemic... 799 00:53:09,590 --> 00:53:13,040 - ...is absurd. - What about Norwin Meneses? 800 00:53:13,113 --> 00:53:13,603 We have no documentation... 801 00:53:13,674 --> 00:53:16,327 ...that this guy ever did any business with us. 802 00:53:16,436 --> 00:53:18,680 This Gary Webb, he's got nothing. 803 00:53:18,759 --> 00:53:21,686 He's got drug dealers and money launderers as sources. 804 00:53:21,762 --> 00:53:23,812 Rich, you know this guy Webb. What do you think? 805 00:53:23,964 --> 00:53:25,616 It's thin. 806 00:53:26,246 --> 00:53:29,618 Except that he posted all his sources on the Merc website. 807 00:53:29,690 --> 00:53:31,535 - So? - So nobody's done that before. 808 00:53:31,612 --> 00:53:34,824 I need every line of that story taken apart and checked for inaccuracies. 809 00:53:34,975 --> 00:53:37,025 Get Dominic Brady back here from Washington. 810 00:53:37,137 --> 00:53:39,120 I want at least 15 people on this thing. 811 00:53:39,146 --> 00:53:40,568 What if we're over reacting? 812 00:53:40,621 --> 00:53:42,431 I mean, it's the San Jose Mercury News. 813 00:53:42,503 --> 00:53:44,792 Is anyone even going to pay attention? 814 00:53:45,145 --> 00:53:48,311 A reporter for the San Jose Mercury News suggested... 815 00:53:48,388 --> 00:53:50,997 that the CIA might have played a role... 816 00:53:51,071 --> 00:53:53,405 in permitting Nicaraguan drug dealers to distribute... 817 00:53:53,433 --> 00:53:58,205 crack cocaine in south central Los Angeles during the 1980's. 818 00:53:58,318 --> 00:54:02,647 That had enormous resonance within the African-American community. 819 00:54:02,763 --> 00:54:06,567 We have been faked out, we have been tricked, 820 00:54:06,647 --> 00:54:08,457 and we have been undermined. 821 00:54:08,529 --> 00:54:11,502 If they had put that crack in Beverly Hills, 822 00:54:11,612 --> 00:54:13,742 it would be a presidential issue. 823 00:54:13,814 --> 00:54:17,026 We love our children. Just like you love yours. 824 00:54:17,097 --> 00:54:19,546 I think it is enough information here... 825 00:54:19,660 --> 00:54:23,349 to say to the CIA, you stand accused. 826 00:54:23,423 --> 00:54:26,988 President Clinton will be back out on the campaign trail next week - 827 00:54:29,550 --> 00:54:31,280 I've got... 828 00:54:31,351 --> 00:54:35,201 requests for you from CNN, CNBC... 829 00:54:35,315 --> 00:54:39,723 Jerry Springer, Geraldo Rivera and Montel Williams. 830 00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:42,745 The London Times and Le Monde are sending in to interview you... 831 00:54:42,843 --> 00:54:46,214 and Sixty Minutes and Dateline both want you, but 832 00:54:46,286 --> 00:54:47,745 only if you don't do the other one. 833 00:54:47,848 --> 00:54:50,376 And I just got the call last night... 834 00:54:50,851 --> 00:54:54,415 the National Press Association Journalist of the Year... 835 00:54:54,535 --> 00:54:56,539 is Mr. Gary Webb. 836 00:54:56,657 --> 00:54:58,069 Congratulations. Gary. 837 00:55:03,263 --> 00:55:05,872 On, baby! 838 00:55:09,229 --> 00:55:09,833 Thank you. 839 00:55:09,910 --> 00:55:11,596 Life's beautiful. 840 00:55:18,759 --> 00:55:21,925 It's checking out Richard. I spoke with the banker in Panama City. 841 00:55:22,082 --> 00:55:25,568 His name is Hans Jorg Baier. He met with Webb. He confirmed... 842 00:55:25,686 --> 00:55:28,009 he laundered drug money for the Contras. 843 00:55:28,088 --> 00:55:29,899 Norwin Meneses was his client. 844 00:55:30,050 --> 00:55:32,419 Are these sources reliable enough? For the Post? 845 00:55:32,493 --> 00:55:34,258 I mean, they're all drug dealers. 846 00:55:34,374 --> 00:55:36,140 The banker isn't a drug dealer. 847 00:55:36,256 --> 00:55:40,185 Also, there's this American ex-pat that had a ranch in the jungle for thirty years. 848 00:55:40,260 --> 00:55:44,030 And he let these two American pilots land and take off from his airstrip. 849 00:55:44,104 --> 00:55:47,111 And, he let them store dope on his property. 850 00:55:47,187 --> 00:55:49,229 You're talking to drug dealers and money launderers. 851 00:55:49,269 --> 00:55:51,160 I'm talking to Langley. 852 00:55:51,271 --> 00:55:52,398 Well, I'm filing. 853 00:55:52,473 --> 00:55:54,442 You guys do whatever you want with it. 854 00:55:59,119 --> 00:56:00,451 So what's our point of view? 855 00:56:00,561 --> 00:56:03,043 That Webb doesn't have any legitimate sources... 856 00:56:03,283 --> 00:56:06,609 That the CIA would never use these low-lifes and in fact denies it, 857 00:56:06,727 --> 00:56:08,061 in fact denies it unequivocally. 858 00:56:08,128 --> 00:56:11,135 That basically, he's a fraud and so is his story. 859 00:56:14,094 --> 00:56:16,464 I'll take that upstairs and see if it'll fly. 860 00:56:19,459 --> 00:56:21,783 Yeah, you're going to turn into a chip. 861 00:56:21,902 --> 00:56:23,268 Hey, wait you guys, it's on. 862 00:56:23,343 --> 00:56:24,949 Come here, it's on. 863 00:56:25,105 --> 00:56:27,998 In tonight's Eye on America, accusations... 864 00:56:28,148 --> 00:56:30,802 underscore the word accusations” that are nothing... 865 00:56:30,871 --> 00:56:33,353 short of explosive. hat the CIA... 866 00:56:33,474 --> 00:56:38,883 knowingly and intentionally did what amounts to pump crack cocaine into Los Angeles... 867 00:56:38,959 --> 00:56:39,882 That's not what he said. 868 00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:41,487 ...to help fund rebels in Nicaragua. 869 00:56:41,602 --> 00:56:42,729 You never said “intentionally.” 870 00:56:42,803 --> 00:56:45,969 Whether or not these claims prove true, they anger they... 871 00:56:52,092 --> 00:56:53,619 A lot of people are saying... 872 00:56:53,694 --> 00:56:55,903 of course, including people in Congress... 873 00:56:55,976 --> 00:57:01,705 that the CIA intentionally addicted African Americans to crack cocaine. 874 00:57:01,822 --> 00:57:05,272 Right. Well, what you and others are doing is putting words in my mouth. 875 00:57:05,345 --> 00:57:06,553 We never made that claim. 876 00:57:06,667 --> 00:57:10,277 What have you got to prove that Americans working in the US government... 877 00:57:10,350 --> 00:57:12,799 collaborated in selling crack cocaine into the 878 00:57:12,873 --> 00:57:15,607 African American community of Los Angeles? 879 00:57:15,676 --> 00:57:18,842 Well, first of all, we never said that Americans working 880 00:57:18,919 --> 00:57:20,280 in the government were doing this. 881 00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:22,929 These were Nicaraguans working for the CIA-run army. 882 00:57:23,003 --> 00:57:26,055 Okay. It's not CIA-U.S. officials. 883 00:57:26,206 --> 00:57:27,288 Not that we know so far. 884 00:57:27,367 --> 00:57:29,292 Okay. It's not U.S. officials. Okay. Go ahead. 885 00:57:29,369 --> 00:57:33,936 What the CIA wanted to do was to fight a war that Congress didn't want. 886 00:57:34,014 --> 00:57:35,223 And the ripple effect of that 887 00:57:35,335 --> 00:57:37,146 - what happened in south Los Angeles and other American cities 888 00:57:37,217 --> 00:57:38,823 - well that was a mistake. 889 00:57:38,899 --> 00:57:40,983 This is a smoking cannon... 890 00:57:41,061 --> 00:57:44,386 that leads all the way to the White House. 891 00:57:44,785 --> 00:57:46,231 We have no evidence... 892 00:57:46,306 --> 00:57:48,072 of a conspiracy by the CIA... 893 00:57:48,228 --> 00:57:50,882 to engage in encouraging drug traffickers in Nicaragua... 894 00:57:50,991 --> 00:57:52,882 I am going to make somebody... 895 00:57:52,993 --> 00:57:57,845 pay for what they have done to my community and to my people. 896 00:57:57,918 --> 00:57:59,684 Don't give me the conspiracy bull - 897 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:04,292 There has never been a conspiracy in this country. 898 00:58:26,947 --> 00:58:28,109 Senior Baier... 899 00:58:44,605 --> 00:58:45,607 Hello? 900 00:58:45,686 --> 00:58:47,451 It's Fred Weil. 901 00:58:49,770 --> 00:58:51,900 You haven't seen the east coast papers yet? 902 00:58:52,893 --> 00:58:54,100 No. 903 00:58:55,135 --> 00:58:56,901 It's 4 AM. 904 00:59:01,902 --> 00:59:03,986 I was you once. Gary, 905 00:59:04,785 --> 00:59:09,351 I started down this road. Though nowhere near as far as you are. 906 00:59:10,531 --> 00:59:11,331 When they saw... 907 00:59:11,371 --> 00:59:14,503 I wasn't gonna stop, they 'controversialized' me. 908 00:59:18,038 --> 00:59:20,042 Do you have any idea what I'm talking about? 909 00:59:23,123 --> 00:59:25,446 They make you the story. 910 00:59:26,927 --> 00:59:32,257 And you have a history of schizophrenia, you're a liar, you're a homo... 911 00:59:32,332 --> 00:59:34,257 you beat your dog... 912 00:59:34,495 --> 00:59:35,018 you're a pedophile - 913 00:59:35,135 --> 00:59:37,139 it doesn't matter if none of it's true. The point is... 914 00:59:37,257 --> 00:59:40,663 no one remembers what you found. They remember you... 915 00:59:41,622 --> 00:59:43,467 and you're nuts. 916 00:59:43,904 --> 00:59:45,795 You cease to exist. 917 00:59:50,511 --> 00:59:52,162 You there? 918 00:59:53,914 --> 00:59:55,725 Yeah, I'm here. 919 00:59:55,836 --> 00:59:58,079 Remember, you get the most flak... 920 00:59:58,519 --> 01:00:01,127 when you're right above the target. 921 01:00:02,763 --> 01:00:04,680 That's when they empty all their guns into you. 922 01:00:04,725 --> 01:00:08,289 When you're about to drop a bomb on the on the Kremlin... 923 01:00:10,330 --> 01:00:13,064 Or in this case, the Central Intelligence Agency. 924 01:00:16,617 --> 01:00:18,542 Hang in there. Gary. 925 01:00:46,687 --> 01:00:47,894 Morning. 926 01:00:53,774 --> 01:00:55,186 You guys don't look so good. 927 01:00:55,255 --> 01:00:56,256 Morning, Gary. 928 01:00:56,336 --> 01:00:57,703 Good morning. 929 01:00:57,938 --> 01:00:59,429 We just want to take your temperature, you know, get 930 01:00:59,500 --> 01:01:01,823 your perspective before we weigh in here. 931 01:01:02,422 --> 01:01:03,471 About what? 932 01:01:03,584 --> 01:01:06,591 Well, the CIA's response to you for one. 933 01:01:06,707 --> 01:01:08,871 Well, there isn't one really, is there? 934 01:01:09,149 --> 01:01:10,436 Still nothing? 935 01:01:10,551 --> 01:01:12,555 Not a single source? I mean... 936 01:01:12,633 --> 01:01:16,680 at this point, I'll take anybody who takes home a check from the CIA. Anyone. 937 01:01:16,757 --> 01:01:18,362 They're a secretive organization, 938 01:01:18,438 --> 01:01:21,192 Jerry. I mean, that's what they do. They're secretive. They don't talk. 939 01:01:21,201 --> 01:01:23,410 Well, at least the Washington Post isn't saying we got 940 01:01:23,443 --> 01:01:24,366 all our facts wrong. 941 01:01:24,444 --> 01:01:25,607 Because they're not. 942 01:01:25,626 --> 01:01:28,413 But what the Post is saying is that we're just here to attest to the moral 943 01:01:28,489 --> 01:01:31,097 purity of the Central Intelligence Agency. 944 01:01:31,171 --> 01:01:33,575 Gary, Walter Zuckerman is a living legend. 945 01:01:33,654 --> 01:01:36,467 Yeah, who thinks his job is to defend the CIA. 946 01:01:36,577 --> 01:01:37,659 He used to work for them. 947 01:01:37,778 --> 01:01:40,785 He was a media intern for god's sakes. Am I crazy? 948 01:01:40,861 --> 01:01:43,470 I mean reading this stuff is like reading Pravda circa 1953, 949 01:01:43,544 --> 01:01:45,309 you guys. I mean, what am I missing here? 950 01:01:45,466 --> 01:01:49,235 Gary, cards on the table. We got a call from Corporate this morning. 951 01:01:49,309 --> 01:01:50,671 They are getting a little nervous. 952 01:01:50,711 --> 01:01:52,920 And so we're just going to take a beat, step back, 953 01:01:52,993 --> 01:01:55,043 look at the big picture on behalf of the paper. 954 01:01:55,115 --> 01:01:58,008 We don't want to print anything else until we get our ducks in a row, ok? 955 01:01:58,118 --> 01:01:59,804 And we're keeping you in the loop. 956 01:02:00,481 --> 01:02:02,645 No big deal 957 01:02:02,723 --> 01:02:05,046 - Gary, can I talk to you for a second? - Yeah. 958 01:02:21,542 --> 01:02:22,908 I just got a call. 959 01:02:23,023 --> 01:02:25,950 NBC's canceling their segment on the story. They're not gonna run it. 960 01:02:26,026 --> 01:02:27,712 And you're not going to believe this, but we've heard 961 01:02:27,828 --> 01:02:29,480 the Washington Post is going to say you're an active 962 01:02:29,550 --> 01:02:31,360 part of Ricky Ross' defense... 963 01:02:31,512 --> 01:02:33,197 that your involvement verges on complicity and that 964 01:02:33,313 --> 01:02:36,240 you and Ricky Ross are telling this fairy tale together. 965 01:02:36,997 --> 01:02:38,808 - It's not funny. - Come on. 966 01:02:38,879 --> 01:02:41,202 - It's funny. - No, our careers could be on the line. 967 01:02:41,321 --> 01:02:43,405 Look, we drew blood. They're going to say anything. 968 01:02:43,524 --> 01:02:44,890 Would you? 969 01:02:45,606 --> 01:02:46,813 What? 970 01:02:48,168 --> 01:02:50,457 I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. 971 01:02:50,851 --> 01:02:52,217 You think I'd make some shit up? 972 01:02:52,332 --> 01:02:53,859 No. 973 01:02:54,535 --> 01:02:56,379 - You're my editor. - I know. 974 01:02:57,137 --> 01:03:00,223 It's my name on this story but it's your name on that damn door. 975 01:03:00,741 --> 01:03:02,346 Don't forget that. 976 01:03:02,663 --> 01:03:04,234 Right there. 977 01:03:11,231 --> 01:03:12,644 It's Rich Kline. 978 01:03:13,193 --> 01:03:14,685 It's Gary Webb. 979 01:03:15,556 --> 01:03:17,047 Really? 980 01:03:17,798 --> 01:03:19,848 Ok. 981 01:03:22,042 --> 01:03:23,408 Hello? 982 01:03:23,564 --> 01:03:25,249 What's happening here, Rich? 983 01:03:26,366 --> 01:03:28,576 The only people you have in your story... 984 01:03:28,649 --> 01:03:30,220 is the former Director of the CIA, 985 01:03:30,330 --> 01:03:32,654 the current Director of the CIA and - guess who - 986 01:03:32,733 --> 01:03:35,022 a bunch of CIA officials. 987 01:03:35,415 --> 01:03:37,181 Are you following up on anything I wrote or are you 988 01:03:37,257 --> 01:03:38,670 just talking to the CIA? 989 01:03:38,739 --> 01:03:40,265 I can't be talking to you. 990 01:03:41,181 --> 01:03:42,514 Why? 991 01:03:43,944 --> 01:03:45,630 I don't know. I'm sorry. 992 01:03:50,591 --> 01:03:52,641 Son of a bitch. 993 01:04:47,648 --> 01:04:49,139 What the fuck. 994 01:05:35,736 --> 01:05:36,863 Hey! 995 01:05:41,862 --> 01:05:43,353 What the hell you doing? 996 01:05:49,470 --> 01:05:50,961 I can see you! 997 01:06:16,056 --> 01:06:17,422 Son of a bitch 998 01:06:20,501 --> 01:06:21,788 Son of a bitch! 999 01:06:21,902 --> 01:06:23,827 I saw him and I chased him down the goddamned street. 1000 01:06:23,904 --> 01:06:25,908 Ok, so then you tried to shoot the guy. 1001 01:06:26,386 --> 01:06:28,117 I fired a warning shot. 1002 01:06:28,469 --> 01:06:29,915 I have a family to protect. 1003 01:06:30,030 --> 01:06:31,032 Did he try to break in? 1004 01:06:31,111 --> 01:06:34,915 No. He was at the back of my car. He wasn't trying to steal it. 1005 01:06:35,075 --> 01:06:37,444 I don't know what the hell he was doing but he was there. 1006 01:06:37,558 --> 01:06:40,245 See his fingerprints or some shit. 1007 01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:43,054 He was messing with it, I don't know what he was doing. 1008 01:06:52,613 --> 01:06:54,025 What are you doing? 1009 01:06:55,135 --> 01:06:58,028 Do you have any reason to believe your family's in danger, Mr. Webb? 1010 01:07:01,341 --> 01:07:02,583 No. 1011 01:07:03,864 --> 01:07:05,390 No. 1012 01:07:06,587 --> 01:07:07,714 Dad! 1013 01:07:07,788 --> 01:07:08,789 What is that? 1014 01:07:09,309 --> 01:07:10,517 That's Ian. 1015 01:07:11,792 --> 01:07:13,084 You can't - put that shit down. 1016 01:07:13,153 --> 01:07:14,600 Hey dad! Dad! 1017 01:07:14,755 --> 01:07:17,630 All these people just came down and are looking through all your shit! 1018 01:07:18,318 --> 01:07:19,890 Can I help you? 1019 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:20,883 You can't be in here. 1020 01:07:20,961 --> 01:07:22,878 - It's a crime scene. - It's not a crime scene. 1021 01:07:23,764 --> 01:07:26,771 Excuse me, this is my house - what are you doing? 1022 01:07:26,847 --> 01:07:28,772 Who the fuck are you? 1023 01:07:28,849 --> 01:07:31,776 Hey, will you put this down? This is my shit! This is my house! 1024 01:07:31,852 --> 01:07:33,822 Get the fuck out! 1025 01:07:33,894 --> 01:07:35,385 Get the fuck out of here! 1026 01:07:43,103 --> 01:07:45,996 Ian, anybody comes down here, hit them with that. 1027 01:07:56,076 --> 01:07:57,523 I see you! 1028 01:08:09,650 --> 01:08:12,172 I know you had a hard night last night but I need to warn you... 1029 01:08:12,212 --> 01:08:14,379 before you come into work tomorrow that the next week 1030 01:08:14,495 --> 01:08:17,341 or so is going to be rough. 1031 01:08:18,859 --> 01:08:20,989 Now Dateline thinks you lied to them so they're coming after you. 1032 01:08:21,061 --> 01:08:23,590 And so is Nightline, 1033 01:08:23,664 --> 01:08:26,033 and every other major that hasn't had their shot yet. 1034 01:08:28,669 --> 01:08:30,320 Well, the story's tight. 1035 01:08:30,791 --> 01:08:32,442 It's not perfect. 1036 01:08:32,513 --> 01:08:35,359 Well, Jerry put the brakes on. I need to keep going. 1037 01:08:35,676 --> 01:08:37,680 I'm not done, Anna. 1038 01:08:37,838 --> 01:08:40,685 And I need you to protect me so I can finish what we started. 1039 01:08:41,041 --> 01:08:43,205 It's not the story now. 1040 01:08:43,443 --> 01:08:45,209 This is about you. 1041 01:08:45,445 --> 01:08:48,209 The New York Times gave us a courtesy call. They went into everything. 1042 01:08:48,248 --> 01:08:50,298 Every closet and corner of your life. 1043 01:08:50,370 --> 01:08:54,619 Every speeding ticket, every bar fight, every libel suit 1044 01:08:54,695 --> 01:08:56,061 That's gossip, that's not news. 1045 01:08:56,176 --> 01:08:57,064 And now Jerry's talking about you working out of the 1046 01:08:57,137 --> 01:08:58,709 Cupertino office for a while. 1047 01:08:58,859 --> 01:09:01,307 Jerry's out of his mind. That's not happening. 1048 01:09:01,381 --> 01:09:03,226 Hey bud, come on in. 1049 01:09:03,464 --> 01:09:05,274 That's not a good idea. 1050 01:09:06,386 --> 01:09:07,992 Ian, go to your room. 1051 01:09:17,998 --> 01:09:19,525 What is this? 1052 01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,004 They found out about that woman? 1053 01:09:26,286 --> 01:09:29,054 The woman in Cleveland, at the Plain Dealer. 1054 01:09:29,129 --> 01:09:30,656 Yeah? And? 1055 01:09:32,893 --> 01:09:35,057 Why didn't you tell us the whole story? 1056 01:09:39,259 --> 01:09:41,583 What the fuck. 1057 01:09:41,862 --> 01:09:46,349 Look, who I do or what the fuck I do in my life is not your concern, you understand that? 1058 01:09:46,426 --> 01:09:48,909 - This is between my wife and I, god - - Excuse me. 1059 01:09:51,752 --> 01:09:55,202 It's between my wife and I, goddammit it's not your fucking concern. 1060 01:09:56,396 --> 01:10:00,486 You can take any man's life, put in under a microscope. 1061 01:10:00,601 --> 01:10:03,653 You can dissect it, turn a simple man's life into a circus sideshow, 1062 01:10:03,764 --> 01:10:05,335 you know that. 1063 01:10:07,688 --> 01:10:09,293 What about the rest of me? 1064 01:10:09,610 --> 01:10:11,614 Can we focus on that? 1065 01:10:25,105 --> 01:10:26,757 Dad, what happened in Cleveland? 1066 01:10:37,117 --> 01:10:38,279 Come on. 1067 01:10:44,404 --> 01:10:47,331 There's no such thing as a little mistake, Ian. 1068 01:10:48,368 --> 01:10:50,817 One wrong turn and you're lost. 1069 01:10:51,532 --> 01:10:54,857 - Keep turning trying to get back- - You sound like a writer, writing. 1070 01:10:55,496 --> 01:10:58,422 I'm asking my father what happened in Cleveland. 1071 01:11:03,864 --> 01:11:05,355 I screwed up. 1072 01:11:10,591 --> 01:11:12,082 Who was it? 1073 01:11:15,275 --> 01:11:17,120 A reporter in the newsroom. 1074 01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,250 What was her name? 1075 01:11:23,564 --> 01:11:26,456 - Why does that matter? - It matters to me. 1076 01:11:31,291 --> 01:11:32,863 Barbara. 1077 01:11:36,697 --> 01:11:38,463 Did you love her? 1078 01:11:39,500 --> 01:11:41,071 No. 1079 01:11:41,542 --> 01:11:43,272 Do you love mom? 1080 01:11:43,904 --> 01:11:45,829 I love your mother. 1081 01:11:46,066 --> 01:11:50,554 You, your brother, your sister, your mother... 1082 01:11:51,712 --> 01:11:54,399 You're everything to me. You're all I got. 1083 01:11:55,716 --> 01:11:57,766 I couldn't stand losing that. 1084 01:11:59,480 --> 01:12:01,210 What happened to her? 1085 01:12:09,650 --> 01:12:11,575 She committed suicide. 1086 01:12:18,859 --> 01:12:20,350 That's really shitty. 1087 01:12:21,021 --> 01:12:23,105 Yeah it was. 1088 01:12:23,584 --> 01:12:25,714 Is that why we left Ohio? 1089 01:12:26,306 --> 01:12:27,912 Because you ran away? 1090 01:12:28,589 --> 01:12:31,071 Yeah, we needed a fresh start. 1091 01:12:33,113 --> 01:12:35,767 God, I'm really disappointed in you. 1092 01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:41,927 Mom's amazing. 1093 01:13:13,474 --> 01:13:15,956 We don't have a choice, Gary. This is the only option 1094 01:13:16,116 --> 01:13:17,802 on the table right now. 1095 01:13:17,918 --> 01:13:19,922 Good for you to get out of the line of fire for a beat. 1096 01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,975 You can cool off, pop out some easy human interest stuff. 1097 01:13:45,466 --> 01:13:47,276 Dad, what's in Cupertino? 1098 01:13:47,347 --> 01:13:49,272 It's the paper's bureau for losers. 1099 01:13:51,351 --> 01:13:52,878 Where I won't get in trouble. 1100 01:13:53,474 --> 01:13:54,840 Or so they think. 1101 01:13:55,836 --> 01:13:58,000 Maybe just don't go, Daddy. 1102 01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:03,933 I know. But honey, Daddy's got to go to work. 1103 01:14:04,004 --> 01:14:06,054 We've got the house to pay for and all these school clothes. 1104 01:14:06,206 --> 01:14:08,176 You guys are growing like weeds. 1105 01:14:10,050 --> 01:14:11,382 Look after them. 1106 01:14:12,853 --> 01:14:14,379 You guys be good. 1107 01:14:16,857 --> 01:14:19,670 Photos. Your old records. 1108 01:14:20,981 --> 01:14:23,429 - Some of Christine's drawings. - Ok. 1109 01:14:24,264 --> 01:14:25,950 That kind of thing. 1110 01:14:26,467 --> 01:14:27,879 I hate this. 1111 01:14:27,948 --> 01:14:29,439 I know. 1112 01:14:32,673 --> 01:14:34,278 I don't want to be alone. 1113 01:14:36,797 --> 01:14:38,927 I'm no good at it, you know that. 1114 01:14:41,321 --> 01:14:43,804 Maybe some time apart will be a good thing. 1115 01:14:47,568 --> 01:14:49,378 Well, it's got to be. 1116 01:14:56,657 --> 01:14:57,784 Ok. 1117 01:14:59,059 --> 01:14:59,902 I love you, daddy. 1118 01:14:59,980 --> 01:15:01,950 - Bye. - Love you too. 1119 01:15:03,383 --> 01:15:05,274 Love you, daddy! 1120 01:15:57,478 --> 01:15:59,960 I was told that the Police Department is having trouble 1121 01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,363 keeping the troopers' horses healthy... 1122 01:16:04,765 --> 01:16:08,136 Yeah, I hear it was bowel trouble? 1123 01:16:09,810 --> 01:16:11,301 Constipation. 1124 01:16:26,426 --> 01:16:28,926 I have you on record as working in Nicaragua with John Cullen 1125 01:16:28,989 --> 01:16:31,119 and Barry Reid between '81 and '85. 1126 01:16:31,191 --> 01:16:33,925 Yeah, I worked with Reid, but I don't know Cullen. 1127 01:16:33,994 --> 01:16:35,998 You got any contact info for Reid? 1128 01:16:36,076 --> 01:16:38,969 Last I heard he was in New Orleans. I think he died though. 1129 01:16:39,039 --> 01:16:41,488 I'd like to review your flight logs. Names of pilots- 1130 01:16:41,562 --> 01:16:43,088 I can't do that, Mr. Webb. 1131 01:16:43,163 --> 01:16:44,815 Is there anyone else I can speak to? 1132 01:16:44,885 --> 01:16:47,208 I don't know, maybe if you try back in a week you can talk to my boss. 1133 01:16:47,367 --> 01:16:48,859 Is Cullen residing in Lake City? 1134 01:16:48,969 --> 01:16:51,703 Down in Florida maybe? Look, I can't talk to you. 1135 01:17:33,854 --> 01:17:36,382 You didn't even open the box I gave you. 1136 01:17:37,377 --> 01:17:42,628 What? Oh honey, I can't open that. 1137 01:17:43,464 --> 01:17:44,830 You can't? 1138 01:17:44,905 --> 01:17:46,636 Look, I gotta focus. 1139 01:17:46,747 --> 01:17:49,720 You understand? I gotta focus so I can finish this thing. 1140 01:17:52,673 --> 01:17:54,244 And then what happens? 1141 01:17:55,596 --> 01:17:57,247 Then it's done. 1142 01:17:57,798 --> 01:17:59,403 And then what? 1143 01:18:02,282 --> 01:18:06,291 Then what? What? I didn't choose what's happening here, Sue. 1144 01:18:07,447 --> 01:18:10,101 I didn't choose this. I don't want to fucking be here in 1145 01:18:10,170 --> 01:18:13,017 this shitbox. Away from home. 1146 01:18:13,253 --> 01:18:16,260 Come on. What is this? 1147 01:18:16,617 --> 01:18:18,268 What do you mean? 1148 01:18:18,699 --> 01:18:21,831 Can't you see what this is doing to all of us? 1149 01:18:25,105 --> 01:18:26,871 That's not fair. 1150 01:18:27,988 --> 01:18:30,471 Look, you are who you always were, Gary. 1151 01:18:31,472 --> 01:18:33,522 No regret... 1152 01:18:33,674 --> 01:18:37,159 no blame, no judgment, it's just a fact. 1153 01:18:41,642 --> 01:18:43,965 I guess it's me who's changed. 1154 01:18:49,690 --> 01:18:51,455 What are you saying? 1155 01:18:58,298 --> 01:19:00,508 - What are you saying? - I don't know. 1156 01:19:06,987 --> 01:19:08,514 You do know. 1157 01:19:14,835 --> 01:19:16,521 Say it! 1158 01:19:20,521 --> 01:19:22,251 I don't know. 1159 01:20:12,813 --> 01:20:14,579 Don't turn on the light. 1160 01:20:19,860 --> 01:20:21,705 I'm John Cullen. 1161 01:20:24,224 --> 01:20:25,910 Do you know that name? 1162 01:20:34,875 --> 01:20:39,407 What you found here, Gary, is a monster. 1163 01:21:10,951 --> 01:21:13,639 I was recruited by the Agency... 1164 01:21:14,835 --> 01:21:16,805 out of college. 1165 01:21:18,318 --> 01:21:20,972 I knew Spanish and Law... 1166 01:21:21,642 --> 01:21:24,011 and I wanted to do good. 1167 01:21:24,444 --> 01:21:27,371 I wanted to fight some evil empire. 1168 01:21:30,130 --> 01:21:32,704 I went to Central America. 1169 01:21:33,654 --> 01:21:36,501 Made nice with radicals. 1170 01:21:38,178 --> 01:21:40,627 Slept with some of the pretty ones. 1171 01:21:42,983 --> 01:21:45,113 And turned in names. 1172 01:21:47,988 --> 01:21:53,683 Then I started noticing that they were disappearing. 1173 01:21:55,075 --> 01:21:56,886 Permanently. 1174 01:21:57,478 --> 01:21:59,847 The people that we hunted... 1175 01:22:00,641 --> 01:22:02,691 Murdered... 1176 01:22:03,884 --> 01:22:05,490 All they had... 1177 01:22:05,646 --> 01:22:11,340 was a deep desire to reform the government and have free elections. 1178 01:22:13,694 --> 01:22:15,824 That's it. 1179 01:22:17,257 --> 01:22:18,624 After I left the Agency, 1180 01:22:18,699 --> 01:22:21,386 I worked my way into a major drug cartel. 1181 01:22:21,502 --> 01:22:23,506 It was early Medellin. 1182 01:22:24,745 --> 01:22:27,479 I solved logistical issues. 1183 01:22:27,988 --> 01:22:31,359 Bringing supply into the United States. 1184 01:22:32,032 --> 01:22:34,515 Paved the way, you might say... 1185 01:22:35,395 --> 01:22:39,165 as the traffic grew. And grew. 1186 01:22:39,640 --> 01:22:45,288 Well someone in Washington knows what you do and is doing nothing to stop it. 1187 01:22:45,365 --> 01:22:47,894 It's all lies and corruption, Gary. 1188 01:22:47,968 --> 01:22:51,818 You become attracted to the power, then you become addicted to the power... 1189 01:22:51,892 --> 01:22:54,466 then you're devoured by the power. 1190 01:22:56,817 --> 01:23:01,429 Your thing and my thing, are they connected? 1191 01:23:09,149 --> 01:23:10,801 Are they the same? 1192 01:23:18,158 --> 01:23:21,723 Yes. They are the same. 1193 01:23:28,969 --> 01:23:30,860 Danilo Blandon. 1194 01:23:36,256 --> 01:23:38,944 This is him. Yesterday. 1195 01:23:39,339 --> 01:23:41,788 This is you here. Today. 1196 01:23:42,543 --> 01:23:45,789 Nobody wants to hear your sad story, Gary. 1197 01:23:48,068 --> 01:23:49,720 You can go on record. 1198 01:23:51,912 --> 01:23:53,962 And end up dead? 1199 01:23:55,155 --> 01:23:56,602 No. 1200 01:24:00,881 --> 01:24:02,452 Then why are you here? 1201 01:24:06,086 --> 01:24:07,452 I'm confessing. 1202 01:24:09,890 --> 01:24:11,656 Who else am I going to tell? 1203 01:24:29,309 --> 01:24:30,676 Anna? 1204 01:24:35,916 --> 01:24:37,157 Who is it? 1205 01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:40,926 It's Gary 1206 01:24:48,208 --> 01:24:49,575 It's six in the morning. 1207 01:24:49,650 --> 01:24:51,301 I found him. Or he found me. 1208 01:24:51,371 --> 01:24:53,023 - Who? - The asset. 1209 01:24:53,093 --> 01:24:55,576 It's the piece I've been missing. The only thing I didn't have. 1210 01:24:55,656 --> 01:24:58,788 It's what you kept asking for. So I can keep going. 1211 01:24:59,099 --> 01:25:04,031 He was a part of the operation, Anna. You understand that? CIA. 1212 01:25:05,906 --> 01:25:08,275 Look if I can just get him to go on record, 1213 01:25:08,348 --> 01:25:09,157 he'll confirm everything. 1214 01:25:09,229 --> 01:25:11,040 He came to my goddamned motel room. 1215 01:25:11,151 --> 01:25:12,392 - I'm not finished with it. - You gotta talk to Jerry about this. 1216 01:25:12,513 --> 01:25:13,321 Calm down. 1217 01:25:13,393 --> 01:25:14,556 I'm not finished! 1218 01:25:14,675 --> 01:25:19,048 Look, I'm trying to keep you on the payroll, ok? I'm trying to save your career. 1219 01:25:19,159 --> 01:25:22,849 I know I'm not just gonna sit back and be quiet and do nothing 1220 01:25:22,923 --> 01:25:24,495 so I can collect your goddamn check. 1221 01:25:24,565 --> 01:25:26,170 - I understand. - You know that. You know me. 1222 01:25:26,246 --> 01:25:27,488 I'm gonna keep going. 1223 01:25:27,568 --> 01:25:28,900 I'm gonna finish this. 1224 01:25:28,969 --> 01:25:31,896 For you. Or I'm gonna do it for somebody else. 1225 01:25:32,893 --> 01:25:34,134 Look, there's a staff meeting tomorrow. 1226 01:25:34,214 --> 01:25:36,504 We'll talk about it there. OK? 1227 01:25:37,177 --> 01:25:38,544 OK. 1228 01:25:40,941 --> 01:25:42,866 OK. 1229 01:26:30,110 --> 01:26:31,557 Morning, Gary. 1230 01:26:34,194 --> 01:26:36,119 I wanted to run a couple ideas past you guys. 1231 01:26:36,196 --> 01:26:37,927 About this asset, the CIA asset. 1232 01:26:37,998 --> 01:26:39,570 Gary, have a seat. 1233 01:26:46,406 --> 01:26:47,933 - Hey Pete. - Hey. 1234 01:26:48,929 --> 01:26:50,455 When'd you get in from Washington? 1235 01:26:50,531 --> 01:26:53,457 No easy way to say this, Gary so I'm just going to say it. 1236 01:26:54,294 --> 01:26:57,620 We've had Pete backtrack a few of your leads. 1237 01:26:59,379 --> 01:27:00,826 Why didn't you tell me? 1238 01:27:00,981 --> 01:27:02,792 Well I'm telling you now. 1239 01:27:03,103 --> 01:27:03,946 Pete, why didn't you say anything? 1240 01:27:04,024 --> 01:27:07,589 We didn't like some of the some of the stuff that Pete brought back, ok? 1241 01:27:07,668 --> 01:27:09,991 Some of your sources have changed their stories. 1242 01:27:10,070 --> 01:27:11,152 Of course they did. 1243 01:27:11,231 --> 01:27:14,796 Well, they're saying they never said the things you have them saying. 1244 01:27:14,955 --> 01:27:17,005 Well that's how they operate, Jerry. 1245 01:27:17,117 --> 01:27:18,803 - “They"? - The Agency. 1246 01:27:18,919 --> 01:27:20,001 They deny everything. 1247 01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:22,814 Everyone who works with the CIA, the CIA denies everything. 1248 01:27:22,923 --> 01:27:26,055 Did you ever get an actual CIA operative on the record? 1249 01:27:26,487 --> 01:27:27,249 We never made that claim. 1250 01:27:27,327 --> 01:27:29,537 I think that's been very clear at this point. 1251 01:27:29,650 --> 01:27:31,814 Did you not tell them about the guy who came to my hotel room? 1252 01:27:31,932 --> 01:27:34,414 But he said he's not going on the record, Gary. 1253 01:27:35,175 --> 01:27:37,020 - No. I think I made- - Did you get anyone who works 1254 01:27:37,137 --> 01:27:39,507 for the CIA on the record? 1255 01:27:40,461 --> 01:27:41,463 Who is this guy? 1256 01:27:41,542 --> 01:27:42,350 Outside Counsel. 1257 01:27:42,463 --> 01:27:45,709 OK, let me catch you up to speed here, counselor. 1258 01:27:45,826 --> 01:27:49,197 The CIA uses people who work for the CIA. 1259 01:27:49,269 --> 01:27:51,593 They also use people who work with the CIA. 1260 01:27:51,672 --> 01:27:52,481 You get the difference. 1261 01:27:52,553 --> 01:27:55,206 We don't operate in a courtroom or in absolutes, Gary. 1262 01:27:55,275 --> 01:27:57,041 We operate in shades of grey. 1263 01:27:57,518 --> 01:27:59,522 I didn't realize truth was a shade of grey. 1264 01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:00,044 Anyone else? 1265 01:28:00,160 --> 01:28:02,244 It's not what you can prove, it's what people say they remember. 1266 01:28:02,362 --> 01:28:04,207 Your word against theirs. 1267 01:28:04,284 --> 01:28:06,858 Would have been wonderful to get a couple of innocent people on the record. 1268 01:28:06,967 --> 01:28:09,449 Yeah, well nobody a part of this story's innocent, Jerry. 1269 01:28:09,530 --> 01:28:11,420 You know, call Norwin Meneses. 1270 01:28:11,612 --> 01:28:13,537 He's in Managua. He's in a prison. 1271 01:28:13,614 --> 01:28:15,299 He was happy to speak to me when I came down... 1272 01:28:15,375 --> 01:28:17,300 He said he never spoke to you. 1273 01:28:18,819 --> 01:28:20,505 You kidding me? 1274 01:28:21,782 --> 01:28:23,627 I was in Managua for three days, you know this- 1275 01:28:23,704 --> 01:28:25,275 I know you were in Managua. 1276 01:28:25,385 --> 01:28:27,550 He said you never got inside the prison. 1277 01:28:27,828 --> 01:28:29,035 He said he never saw you. 1278 01:28:29,109 --> 01:28:30,875 Well there were five hundred other people who did. 1279 01:28:30,991 --> 01:28:32,882 Yeah, but can you prove it? 1280 01:28:34,555 --> 01:28:37,597 What, you mean, like did I bring home a t-shirt from the prison gift shop? 1281 01:28:37,638 --> 01:28:40,724 Do you have any proof you were actually inside that prison? 1282 01:28:40,881 --> 01:28:42,088 I bribed my way in. 1283 01:28:42,162 --> 01:28:42,573 For Christ's sake. 1284 01:28:42,643 --> 01:28:45,809 It's a third world country. What did you expect me to do? 1285 01:28:45,886 --> 01:28:46,888 What about all my notes? 1286 01:28:47,047 --> 01:28:50,020 Legally, they're just your notes. All it means is you wrote them. 1287 01:28:50,090 --> 01:28:51,582 You could have made them up later. 1288 01:28:51,652 --> 01:28:53,257 - Fuck you. - Easy Gary. 1289 01:28:53,373 --> 01:28:54,661 Fuck you both. 1290 01:28:54,735 --> 01:28:56,466 You questioning my ethics? 1291 01:28:56,777 --> 01:28:59,670 Thinking I'd re-engineer a goddam thing. 1292 01:29:00,060 --> 01:29:01,826 - How fucking dare you! - Calm down. 1293 01:29:01,902 --> 01:29:05,193 What about this Swiss banker? Baier? 1294 01:29:05,385 --> 01:29:07,071 Yeah, what about him? 1295 01:29:07,147 --> 01:29:08,594 - I can't find him. - We're going to have to 1296 01:29:08,669 --> 01:29:09,753 look a little harder then. 1297 01:29:09,830 --> 01:29:11,321 No one's heard from him, Gary. 1298 01:29:11,431 --> 01:29:14,278 This is crazy. This is nuts. 1299 01:29:14,635 --> 01:29:17,518 The CIA can't take a piss without getting their dicks caught in their fly 1300 01:29:17,558 --> 01:29:19,267 but they're absolutely fantastic at this. 1301 01:29:19,319 --> 01:29:21,861 I mean, look at you guys. You're looking at me like I'm crazy. 1302 01:29:21,922 --> 01:29:22,731 Like I'm lying. 1303 01:29:22,803 --> 01:29:24,489 - This is- - That's what you're doing! 1304 01:29:24,605 --> 01:29:25,607 Nobody's saying that. 1305 01:29:25,686 --> 01:29:27,816 - This is not personal. Do not- - How is this not personal? 1306 01:29:27,928 --> 01:29:33,144 Look, we got into this together, so we're going to get out of it together. 1307 01:29:37,938 --> 01:29:39,988 How are we going to get out of it? 1308 01:29:40,461 --> 01:29:43,353 We are going to print an open letter... 1309 01:29:43,464 --> 01:29:44,830 saying that some mistakes were made. 1310 01:29:44,945 --> 01:29:46,472 Don't do that. Don't do that. 1311 01:29:46,547 --> 01:29:48,597 Come on, there's a bigger picture here, open your eyes. 1312 01:29:48,669 --> 01:29:50,434 My eyes are wide open. Know what I see? 1313 01:29:50,511 --> 01:29:53,357 I see a bunch of people who are worried about their reputations. 1314 01:29:53,474 --> 01:29:55,079 Terrified that the Post or the Times aren't going to 1315 01:29:55,155 --> 01:29:57,604 pluck you from the foothills of San Jose... 1316 01:29:57,678 --> 01:29:59,408 and give you a job on the mountaintop. 1317 01:29:59,480 --> 01:30:02,726 You know Jerry, you print that letter, you can't undo it. 1318 01:30:02,803 --> 01:30:09,135 Not ever. You become a paper that tells the truth only when you fucking feel like it. 1319 01:30:11,131 --> 01:30:14,821 Some of the heavyweights of American journalism have examined Webb's work... 1320 01:30:14,895 --> 01:30:18,027 and found it reckless, often wrong. 1321 01:30:18,178 --> 01:30:21,310 Just this week, Webb was pulled off the CIA story... 1322 01:30:21,381 --> 01:30:23,864 after his own executive editor admitted the articles... 1323 01:30:23,984 --> 01:30:27,230 oversimplified the origins of the crack epidemic. 1324 01:30:27,347 --> 01:30:28,348 He also wrote, 1325 01:30:28,388 --> 01:30:33,035 “I feel that we did not have proof that top CIA officials knew.” 1326 01:30:33,313 --> 01:30:36,719 Many Americans do seem willing to believe that their own government... 1327 01:30:36,837 --> 01:30:39,001 could have been involved in drug smuggling. 1328 01:30:39,159 --> 01:30:41,642 Despite the criticism of Mr. Webb's work... 1329 01:30:41,722 --> 01:30:45,366 he is scheduled to receive the Bay Area Journalist of the Year Award. 1330 01:30:45,486 --> 01:30:49,210 Some within the organization are debating whether he is worthy of this- 1331 01:31:44,264 --> 01:31:47,032 Where the fuck's my bike? Come on. Come on! 1332 01:31:48,669 --> 01:31:49,352 Hey, excuse me, 1333 01:31:49,429 --> 01:31:52,197 have you seen a bike that was here? motorcycle? 1334 01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:03,210 Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! 1335 01:32:07,488 --> 01:32:08,979 God! 1336 01:32:13,774 --> 01:32:15,345 Come on. 1337 01:32:17,778 --> 01:32:19,669 What are you looking at? 1338 01:33:23,003 --> 01:33:24,734 - He's here! - I see his car! 1339 01:33:24,845 --> 01:33:26,177 Daddy! 1340 01:33:26,406 --> 01:33:26,532 Dad! 1341 01:33:26,607 --> 01:33:28,657 Hey munchkins! 1342 01:33:30,370 --> 01:33:31,942 How are you? How you doing? 1343 01:33:32,012 --> 01:33:36,180 Good to see you. How you doing, kiddo? 1344 01:33:36,296 --> 01:33:37,184 What happened to your hand? 1345 01:33:37,337 --> 01:33:39,946 That's just a little scratch. It's nothing. 1346 01:33:40,020 --> 01:33:41,386 You ever coming home? 1347 01:33:41,462 --> 01:33:42,794 Working on it kiddo, we're working on it. 1348 01:33:42,863 --> 01:33:44,309 Mom! Dad's here! 1349 01:33:44,384 --> 01:33:45,876 Hi, chicken. 1350 01:33:50,551 --> 01:33:52,395 - Hey mom. - Look at you. 1351 01:33:52,713 --> 01:33:54,204 Come on, Christine, let's go. 1352 01:33:56,957 --> 01:33:57,958 You look beautiful. 1353 01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:01,125 I look beautiful. 1354 01:34:02,122 --> 01:34:03,124 Come in. 1355 01:34:05,405 --> 01:34:06,568 What's this? 1356 01:34:06,647 --> 01:34:10,416 It's a long story. It's nothing. It's boring. 1357 01:34:11,652 --> 01:34:12,653 Hi. 1358 01:34:14,374 --> 01:34:15,821 How you been? 1359 01:34:16,897 --> 01:34:19,631 Really good, considering. 1360 01:34:20,861 --> 01:34:24,027 I've decided to continue writing on my own... 1361 01:34:25,345 --> 01:34:27,076 without the paper. 1362 01:34:29,470 --> 01:34:30,357 You're resigning? 1363 01:34:30,430 --> 01:34:31,922 Yeah. 1364 01:34:34,034 --> 01:34:35,765 - Well that's good. - Yeah. 1365 01:34:35,836 --> 01:34:40,688 I mean, you know. Walk away. Fresh start. 1366 01:34:41,602 --> 01:34:43,652 Make room for something new. 1367 01:34:44,084 --> 01:34:45,497 Yeah. 1368 01:34:47,768 --> 01:34:50,820 Thanks for coming with me. It means a lot. 1369 01:34:50,931 --> 01:34:52,856 Tonight's going to be a good night. 1370 01:34:53,133 --> 01:34:54,260 Journalist of the Year 1371 01:34:54,414 --> 01:34:55,941 Yeah. You ready? You look ready. 1372 01:34:56,016 --> 01:34:58,146 - You guys behave. - Love you guys. 1373 01:34:58,258 --> 01:34:59,864 Where's Ian? 1374 01:35:04,625 --> 01:35:06,595 No way. 1375 01:35:06,827 --> 01:35:08,991 No way. 1376 01:35:10,551 --> 01:35:11,758 What? 1377 01:35:13,393 --> 01:35:15,045 What? 1378 01:35:17,718 --> 01:35:18,800 This is great! 1379 01:35:18,919 --> 01:35:19,719 Yeah. 1380 01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:22,123 Oh man. Look at her. 1381 01:35:22,242 --> 01:35:24,246 You did it! You did it! You did it! 1382 01:35:24,324 --> 01:35:25,851 Thank you. 1383 01:35:26,967 --> 01:35:28,619 I'm so proud of you. 1384 01:35:28,929 --> 01:35:31,298 - Thank you. - I'm super proud of you. 1385 01:35:31,852 --> 01:35:35,223 All right! Yes! 1386 01:35:37,097 --> 01:35:38,145 I'll follow you. 1387 01:35:38,258 --> 01:35:40,149 Yeah, don't drive too fast. 1388 01:35:41,502 --> 01:35:43,506 - Well what? - We'll see. 1389 01:36:19,339 --> 01:36:20,547 Unbelievable! 1390 01:36:23,023 --> 01:36:24,515 Unbelievable. 1391 01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:26,311 Congratulations. 1392 01:36:28,869 --> 01:36:30,555 Congratulations, Gary! Good job! 1393 01:36:30,631 --> 01:36:32,761 Thank you, thank you. 1394 01:36:33,794 --> 01:36:35,639 Good to see you, good to see you. 1395 01:37:32,813 --> 01:37:38,667 My first story was about a dog that should have died, but wouldn't. 1396 01:37:42,142 --> 01:37:43,143 I was twenty-two. 1397 01:37:43,223 --> 01:37:45,991 It was a stupid little feature, but I was proud of it. 1398 01:37:46,106 --> 01:37:48,794 I put it in a frame and hung it on my wall. 1399 01:37:50,991 --> 01:37:54,761 And believed I joined a secret guild of reporters that day. 1400 01:37:55,756 --> 01:37:58,079 If there was ever a believer, it was me. 1401 01:38:00,280 --> 01:38:04,813 My last story was about a police horse in Cupertino, California... 1402 01:38:05,926 --> 01:38:08,056 who died of constipation. 1403 01:38:10,370 --> 01:38:12,944 Actually, it's not a joke. 1404 01:38:14,134 --> 01:38:17,266 But to begin with a dog and end with a pile of horseshit... 1405 01:38:18,819 --> 01:38:21,826 there's a kind of poetry in there, somewhere. 1406 01:38:27,668 --> 01:38:29,911 But this, this is horseshit. 1407 01:38:30,190 --> 01:38:32,433 Me being up here. 1408 01:38:32,873 --> 01:38:36,005 Look, I know I pissed off a lot of people over the years. 1409 01:38:36,837 --> 01:38:39,650 Many of whom are in this room right now. 1410 01:38:42,082 --> 01:38:45,009 But I think that's what good investigative reporting does. 1411 01:38:45,085 --> 01:38:46,691 It ruffles feathers. 1412 01:38:48,248 --> 01:38:49,900 But I was never fired. 1413 01:38:50,130 --> 01:38:52,500 And my editors never threw me under the bus. 1414 01:38:54,214 --> 01:38:57,187 And that's because I never wrote anything until now... 1415 01:38:58,819 --> 01:39:02,828 that really mattered to a lot of people. 1416 01:39:03,984 --> 01:39:05,795 Mattered in a scary way. 1417 01:39:10,030 --> 01:39:11,761 I'm not going to take it back. 1418 01:39:12,352 --> 01:39:16,077 Make nice to save my job. 1419 01:39:17,718 --> 01:39:19,448 Because I thought my job... 1420 01:39:26,006 --> 01:39:27,418 Sorry. 1421 01:39:34,454 --> 01:39:37,381 I thought my job was to tell the public the truth. 1422 01:39:37,898 --> 01:39:39,868 The facts, pretty or not. 1423 01:39:39,940 --> 01:39:42,309 And let the publishing of those facts... 1424 01:39:42,382 --> 01:39:44,273 make a difference... 1425 01:39:45,866 --> 01:39:47,200 in how people look at things. 1426 01:39:47,227 --> 01:39:49,391 At themselves, at what they stand for. 1427 01:39:50,831 --> 01:39:52,483 That's shame on me. 1428 01:39:57,918 --> 01:40:00,400 This is the only thing I ever wanted to do. 1429 01:40:06,927 --> 01:40:08,772 And for a while... 1430 01:40:11,411 --> 01:40:13,576 a long while, it was an honor. 1431 01:40:50,130 --> 01:40:55,939 Before we say goodnight, there's one more item of business. 1432 01:41:06,507 --> 01:41:07,839 Hey dad. 1433 01:41:11,231 --> 01:41:13,201 Hey bud. 1434 01:41:13,754 --> 01:41:15,439 You ok? 1435 01:41:16,196 --> 01:41:18,360 I'm not sure. 1436 01:41:21,161 --> 01:41:23,052 Well, I'm really proud of you. 1437 01:41:31,892 --> 01:41:33,498 Thanks bud. 1438 01:41:40,300 --> 01:41:41,827 Listen. 1439 01:41:43,624 --> 01:41:47,029 I've done a lot of things that I'm not proud of. 1440 01:41:50,270 --> 01:41:52,434 But I've never stopped loving you. 1441 01:41:53,914 --> 01:41:55,600 Not once. 1442 01:41:58,078 --> 01:41:59,684 I know. 1443 01:42:04,885 --> 01:42:06,935 - I need some air. - Yeah. 1444 01:42:08,969 --> 01:42:10,735 Hey dad, don't go too far. 1445 01:42:39,079 --> 01:42:43,407 This town hall meeting allows the South Central community to interact... 1446 01:42:43,484 --> 01:42:45,887 ...with the director of Central intelligence. 1447 01:42:45,966 --> 01:42:50,294 Please join me in welcoming CIA Director, John Deutch. 1448 01:43:03,343 --> 01:43:06,190 How are we supposed to trust... 1449 01:43:06,266 --> 01:43:10,640 the CIA officials to investigate themselves? 1450 01:43:10,751 --> 01:43:12,596 Is Gary Webb in the house is the first thing I want to ask? 1451 01:43:12,673 --> 01:43:14,039 Is Gary Webb in here? 1452 01:43:14,434 --> 01:43:16,684 Gary Webb is the reporter for the San Jose Mercury News 1453 01:43:16,757 --> 01:43:18,523 who broke the story wide open. 1454 01:43:18,599 --> 01:43:23,690 Allow Gary Webb to have full access to the Investigator General's full documentation... 1455 01:43:23,764 --> 01:43:27,739 and comparatively go through it as the investigation goes on. 1456 01:43:55,435 --> 01:43:58,328 There's no question in my mind there is a complicity 1457 01:43:58,398 --> 01:44:00,289 in the flow of drugs into this country. 1458 01:44:00,360 --> 01:44:04,005 Same pilots, same airstrips, same airplanes... 1459 01:44:04,124 --> 01:44:09,374 ...carrying guns and drugs at the same time. And people knew it. 1460 01:44:09,490 --> 01:44:12,975 South Central Los Angeles and every other city in America... 1461 01:44:13,053 --> 01:44:15,601 ...are owed an explanation. 110776