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...public enemy number one
in the United States...
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...is drug abuse.
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In order to fight and
defeat this enemy...
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...it is necessary to wage a new,
all-out offensive.
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For nearly a year, I have been
devoting increasing attention...
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...to a problem which strikes at the
very heart of our national well-being:
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Drug abuse.
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I did not condone any drug abuse, and
we'll do everything possible to reduce...
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...this serious threat to our society.
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Drugs are menacing our society.
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They're threatening our values and
undercutting our institutions.
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They're killing our children.
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Thank you very much.
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...and when it comes to
drugs and alcohol, just say "no. "
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Reagan says he will make it
a priority of his presidency...
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...to stop drug abuse in the United States.
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This is your brain on drugs.
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Those who smuggle and sell drugs are
as dangerous to our national security...
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...as any terrorist or foreign dictatorship.
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The Reagan administration
is spending billions on two wars...
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...the war on drugs at home
and the struggle for
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Nicaragua abroad.
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If we do not act decisively
in defense of freedom...
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...new Cubas will arise from
the ruins of today's conflicts.
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We will consult closely
with the Freedom Fighters.
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The anti-communist
rebels known as the "contras"...
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...an army founded and funded by the CIA.
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Crack cocaine...
a drug epidemic
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...unlike any that's ever probably
existed in the history of the world.
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For five dollars, you can begin
the process of addicting people.
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Waging the war on drugs
has cost taxpayers one
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hundred billion dollars
over the last ten years
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The crack trade has triggered a spasm of
gang warfare in south-central L.A...
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...and DEA agents are swarming throughout.
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How many of you have crack houses...
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...in your neighborhood?
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No brave law enforcement officer...
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...no teacher, no doctor,
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need be told how hard and cruel
America's drug problem has become.
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By nineteen eighty-four,
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Congress was preparing to cut off
funds to the Contras. High-level government
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officials began looking for other
ways to continue the aid program.
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There must be no Soviet beachhead
in Central America.
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Good morning.
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Who the fuck are you?
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Gary Webb. San Jose Mercury-News.
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What do you want?
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I called you about the government seizure of
property of accused narcotics dealers?
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Yeah. The accused. Yeah, that's me.
Come on in.
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Okay, great. Thanks.
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- My last house, this sweet pad in Laguna -
- Yeah?
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Charges didn't stick and
the feds still didn't give it back.
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- But you did it?
- Did what?
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Well, off the record, I mean,
you sold the dope.
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Yeah, but you're missing the point.
They took the freaking roof over my head.
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Look, wait a sec...
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All this stuff that you bought
with the drug money - the houses,
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the cars, what have you -
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...you lose it because it's
the crime that paid for it, right?
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Did it, didn't do it... Who gives a shit?
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Can't take a man's shelter.
Anyway, they didn't prove it, did they?
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LA Sheriff's Department - nobody move!
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Let me see your hands!
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Christ. Here we go again.
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- Down, motherfucker down!
- Get the girl!
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Secure the girl!
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Look, I'm a reporter.
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Shut the fuck up!
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Better get that story out there.
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- San Jose Mercury News -
- Hey!
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I'm a reporter!
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Quite a ruckus over there, huh?
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Yeah, this guy almost broke my fucking arm,
the prick.
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All right.
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Hey, wait a minute.
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Where...
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Yeah, I'm sorry. We ran outta inches.
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Look, you cut the kicker and you're gonna
blow the whole point to this thing.
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The government takes
these people's shit, all right?
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Their cars, their houses,
they take everything forever.
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This is before they're convicted.
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Even if they're acquitted,
they don't get it back.
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They're drug dealers.
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Alleged drug dealers, with rights.
Because this is America.
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Four minutes until deadline.
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Well, take my name off the story.
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God, you can be such an asshole.
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I'm an asshole because
I believe in due process?
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Come on. This is our job.
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Clock's ticking.
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It's ticking.
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It's still ticking.
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And...
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...don't call back.
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This guy just had a shotgun in his ear.
Give him a break.
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No, there was no shotgun. All right, look,
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you're gonna have
to wait to read the article.
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Your son is sixteen. Just FYI.
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I see you! Get rid of it.
Honey?
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Come on, don't do that.
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- That's bad.
- That's amazing parenting.
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- "Don't do that. "
- Don't do that.
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It's really not a big deal.
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Would somebody watch this?
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I gotta show you guys something.
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New addition to the family...
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Oh my god!
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Dad!
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- Holy...
- This is a '71 Tiger Sports Triumph.
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It's a beautiful bike
or it was a beautiful bike...
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...and we're going to
make it beautiful again.
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This is the only deal.
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- You and I have to rebuild it
together, okay? - Hey, hotshot.
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- Okay. I love you, Dad.
- All right. I love you.
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- We're happy.
- Goddammit.
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Yes?
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- We talked about this.
- Come on...
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- No, "come on. " No.
- Look at him.
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- Look at this. Look at the bike...
- I see it.
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Look at this face.
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Inside my head.
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Me and my boy riding side by side,
to the mountaintops...
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- Touching the sky.
- Isn't that right?
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Anything happens to him
while he's on that bike...
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- Nothing's going to happen to him. - ... I
will cut these off while you are sleeping.
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- Wow.
- I thought you already cut those off.
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While I'm sleeping!
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Dad, you hang out with
some insanely bad people.
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Don't eat your hair.
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Well...
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...bad guys are usually more
honest than good guys.
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And more fun.
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- Life lessons by Gary Webb.
- No, Mom. You actually have to read this.
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I did already. It's great.
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You guys gotta go, come on.
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You heard the lady!
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Come on! Who wants to ride
in the green machine?
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- Dad's taking us?
- I'm taking you.
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You're not going in your PJ's, are you?
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Come on, guys!
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- Let's get smushed.
- That's where I sit.
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Got it? Step in like sardines.
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Bye, Momma!
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Bye Momma!
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- Bye, Momma!
- Bye.
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Bye Momma!
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- One, two, three...
- Bye, Mom!
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Here you go.
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- It's probably cold.
- Thank you.
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Hey, I know how bad you want
to do the Guv today.
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Some real reporter work.
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Yeah. How that shit gives you satisfaction,
I'll never know.
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Hey, that story this morning?
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That was a big one.
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- But not "the" big one.
- Yeah, what would that be?
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Catching Clinton breaking into Watergate?
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Hey.
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Rich Kline, LA Times. How you doing?
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My editors are pissed that
we missed the drug forfeiture story.
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I'm sure they are.
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It's an amazing job, by the way.
You got any advice for me, or...?
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Ah, yeah. Don't let the assholes win?
I don't know.
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Hey, who's Coral Baca and
why does she keep calling me?
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Nobody?
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She called five times...?
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- Hola?
- Hi, this is Gary Webb.
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He finally calls. I like your work.
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You follow my work?
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I do now.
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Okay, what can I do for you?
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It's what I can do for you.
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Okay, what can you do for me?
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My boyfriend Raffie's in prison,
for cocaine trafficking.
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That's Rafael Cornejo.
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Was that Columbian?
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Nicaraguan.
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Nicaraguan.
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He has this gorgeous house
the government just took.
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Good story, no?
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Yes, it is. I just wrote it.
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But Raffie's story is different.
He sold drugs for the government.
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You want to say that again?
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He brought four tons
of cocaine into the country...
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...for the U.S. government.
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Look, you have a very lovely voice.
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- Thank you-
- I've copied every piece of paper.
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Selling drugs for the government.
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Have you written that story?
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This is the thing you need to see.
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Wait a minute.
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You gotta be kidding me.
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Grand Jury transcript?
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How'd you get ahold of it?
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The government turned it over
on discovery by mistake.
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Yeah, some mistake.
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It was Russell Dodson.
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Federal prosecutor Russell Dodson?
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The little bitch.
I called the cops on him once.
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Called the cops on the feds?
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His goons were sneaking around my house.
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Could have been rapists.
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I think I'm gonna like you.
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So who's this Danilo Blandon?
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Wait.
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Ok. Let's see.
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That's who sold drugs for the government.
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He was a friend.
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He played with my kid.
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Then he rats.
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He's probably the biggest trafficker
in the whole country.
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Way bigger than Raffie.
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Why use whale to catch catfish?
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- That make sense to you Gary Webb?
- Not very much sense. No it doesn't.
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You have more documents?
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Everything is at my house.
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You want to come over?
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Why don't you just send the documents
to my office? How's that?
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First things first, Gary Webb.
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Raffie's got court tomorrow.
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- Yeah?
- Be there.
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Am I late?
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The judge called an early recess.
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It could be fifteen minutes or so.
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- Right. Yeah. So we've got time.
- There's my boyfriend, Raffie...
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He looks friendly.
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He doesn't like seeing me with other men.
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And there is the little bitch.
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Russell Dodson.
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Be right back.
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So, Dodson. Gary Webb,
San Jose Mercury News.
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- You always follow people into bathrooms?
- No. Not really.
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So why is the local news
interested in this case?
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I'm not.
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But I am interested in Danilo Blandon.
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Never heard of him.
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Then why is he on your witness list?
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You had this guy cold on major
narcotics trafficking
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and you let him walk.
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Why?
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I have his grand jury transcript.
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I know. I've seen some screw ups outta
you guys but boy is that a big one.
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So what's the story? Feds use
a bad guy to catch other bad guy?
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- Do you even know what you have there?
- Yes, I know what this is.
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Well, it's unheard of. It's a gift.
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And I asked around about Danilo Blandon.
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- No one has seemed-...
- We're talking here.
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I'm telling you...
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...whatever I got near,
it made him very nervous.
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I know what I saw.
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- And I've been doing this a long time,
- okay? So -
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Don't do old and wise. I hate that.
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I'm not old.
254
00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,125
Come on. It's why you brought me in here.
255
00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:08,440
To go after stories like this.
256
00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:11,444
- But we're not the LA Times.
- We're not small-time, either.
257
00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,921
There's more here, I promise you.
258
00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,609
Get more info on Blandon
and then we'll take it to Jerry.
259
00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:26,404
I gotta get back to San Jose.
260
00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:28,210
Okay.
261
00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,808
Hello, hello!
262
00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:35,970
Smells good.
263
00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:37,885
Who's Coral?
264
00:15:38,440 --> 00:15:40,044
She's hot.
265
00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:42,884
She drove a Camaro.
266
00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,610
Of course she did.
267
00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:46,211
She left this?
268
00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:48,569
- Eat it.
- Mom, can we start?
269
00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:52,008
- Yes.
- Yes. That looks so good.
270
00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,448
- Yummy.
- Hello, gents.
271
00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,281
- Hi.
- Why does she know where you live?
272
00:15:58,400 --> 00:15:59,731
I don't know.
273
00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,761
- She's a source.
- Yeah? For a story about strippers?
274
00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,360
No. But that's a
good one, though.
275
00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:11,367
- Drug dealers.
- Okay. That's better.
276
00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:15,924
Is it happening again?
277
00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,770
- No.
- Is what happening again?
278
00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,081
Come on.
279
00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:21,922
Nothing.
280
00:16:22,040 --> 00:16:24,088
- What's in the box?
- Eat your food.
281
00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:30,371
- What happened with her?
- Nothing.
282
00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:32,090
What happened with her?
283
00:16:32,440 --> 00:16:34,090
Nothing.
284
00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:37,290
I mean, I'm not going to do this again.
It's why we left my family, my friends...
285
00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,971
- I know, I know. - ... left Cleveland,
moved out to California,
286
00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:40,922
which I hate...
287
00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,123
...all this stupid sunshine
and shiny happy faces...
288
00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,925
- Sunshine is so dumb. It's terrible.
- I'm being serious.
289
00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,241
I know; well so am I.
290
00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,200
Baby...
291
00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:53,684
I'm not going to screw this up.
292
00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:55,285
Understand?
293
00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:57,404
Don't smile.
294
00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,009
She said there's another hearing tomorrow.
Seriously, I fucking hate you.
295
00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,889
I love you.
296
00:17:12,120 --> 00:17:13,451
...dismiss all charges against Mr. Cornejo.
297
00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:17,889
We are no longer proceeding
with the case, you Honor.
298
00:17:18,120 --> 00:17:19,406
Hey.
299
00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:20,931
Hi.
300
00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,081
So what's going on?
301
00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:25,766
I don't know. They've
been up there for a while.
302
00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,248
The charges against Mr,
Cornejo are dismissed.
303
00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,163
You are free to go.
304
00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:34,690
What?
305
00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,971
Very impressive, Gary Webb.
306
00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:40,565
What just happened?
307
00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,768
You terrified them.
308
00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,851
They just stuffed
Danilo Blandon under a rug.
309
00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:50,925
He's off their witness list.
No Blandon, no case.
310
00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:53,648
Raffie walks.
311
00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:02,771
Hey, hey, hey-
312
00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,242
So you used me to get this
fucking case dropped?
313
00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:08,368
I'm just the bimbo, remember?
314
00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:11,241
Yeah, fuck you.
315
00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,607
Be happy, Gary Webb.
316
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,921
You thought you were
getting a piece of cheese,
317
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:19,241
but I just gave you the mouse.
318
00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,125
There's your story.
319
00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,204
Danilo Blandon.
320
00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,610
West coast...
321
00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:41,251
Sorry about the air conditioning.
322
00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,691
Come on in.
323
00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:46,921
- How you doing?
- Pretty well.
324
00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,411
You represent Ricky Ross,
the crack dealer?
325
00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,003
Alleged crack dealer.
326
00:19:54,200 --> 00:19:57,682
"Freeway Ricky Ross.
Biggest dealer in Los Angeles...
327
00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,560
...the epicenter of the national
crack epidemic" L.A. Times.
328
00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,080
Who do you write for?
329
00:20:03,160 --> 00:20:05,242
- San Jose Mercury News.
- Never heard of them.
330
00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:07,727
Russell Dodson is the
prosecutor on your case?
331
00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,450
That's public record. Yes.
332
00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:11,523
What about Danilo Blandon?
333
00:20:12,360 --> 00:20:15,250
- Maybe.
- Because I think he's going to testify
334
00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:16,327
gainst your client tomorrow.
335
00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,085
No, you've got that backwards.
336
00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:22,363
Blandon and my client
are friends and associates.
337
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:25,922
If he's going to testify,
he'll be testifying for Ricky.
338
00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:27,930
That would be awkward.
339
00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:29,605
Why's that?
340
00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,609
Because he's a government informant.
341
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:32,680
That's bullshit.
342
00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:35,803
I have a Grand Jury transcript
released on discovery by mistake...
343
00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,410
...by our Russell Dodson.
344
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:41,161
In it is evidence of Blandon testifying
against other drug dealers.
345
00:20:49,760 --> 00:20:52,445
Goddammit!
346
00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:54,602
Jesus, does that make sense.
347
00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:57,968
You would not believe the horseshit
that Dodson puts me through...
348
00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:00,082
...every time I ask him who
his secret weapon is.
349
00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:01,087
Well it's not just Ricky,
350
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,170
it's probably half a dozen guys
he's going to testify against-
351
00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:06,561
Fuck me! They block me!
352
00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,404
Every time I ask for something.
353
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:09,726
Claiming - get this -
354
00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:11,609
National Security.
355
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,809
National security and crack
cocaine in the same sentence?
356
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,809
Does that not sound strange to you?
357
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,361
Ok, what exactly do you want?
358
00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:39,241
Who's this?
359
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,210
He's a reporter.
360
00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,848
So what do you know about Danilo Blandon?
361
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:53,443
I don't know him.
362
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,969
Come on Ricky. Danilo's going
to testify against you tomorrow.
363
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,321
He's the witness they've been hiding.
364
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,403
Man, there ain't no way
they flipped Danilo!
365
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,609
Sit down, and listen to what he has to say.
366
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:13,850
They didn't flip anyone.
367
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:16,370
Ricky,
368
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,250
Blandon was working for
the government the entire time.
369
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,368
- You for real?
- Yeah.
370
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,363
He for real?
371
00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:26,882
Blandon a snitch?
372
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,083
Look here, man,
he was a thousand time heavier than
373
00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:30,082
I'll ever be.
374
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,891
He's LA, New York, Atlanta,
He's everywhere.
375
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,201
I couldn't sell it fast enough
to keep up with supply.
376
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,044
- Slow down.
- Wait. You mean demand.
377
00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:38,770
No. I mean supply.
378
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,161
I was buying a hundred kilos a week.
379
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,208
Selling three million dollars a day.
380
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,408
And still couldn't get rid of
that inventory fast enough, man.
381
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:46,520
It was raining coke.
382
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:49,109
- Allegedly, Ricky. - Allegedly.
- Allegedly.
383
00:22:49,144 --> 00:22:53,755
Look here, man. I gave him
six million a week. Allegedly.
384
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,568
- That's impossible.
- Is it?
385
00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:01,607
- I'm exaggerating, Fenster?
- Yeah, I hope so.
386
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,808
How do you sell that much
cocaine on the street?
387
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,604
Look here, man, we used to cook it.
388
00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:06,920
With baking soda.
389
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,249
We called it Ready Rock.
Powder was for rich folks.
390
00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:12,010
Holy shit.
391
00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:17,242
Look here, man, I was just the elf.
Blandon was Santa Claus.
392
00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,927
This is where Ricky ran his operation.
393
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,689
No, don't get out of the car!
394
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,003
Are you out of your fucking mind?
395
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,561
How did this happen?
396
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,086
Exactly. Which is why we're
going to get the hell out of here.
397
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,766
What about this doesn't piss you off?
398
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:33,526
It's complicated for me.
399
00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:35,921
Whatever the hell happened,
all this shit has run downhill,
400
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,081
right here.
401
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,529
I need to speak with Blandon.
402
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,761
He's a protected witness.
How are you going to do that?
403
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,963
Yes, I know. I can't.
404
00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:46,888
But you can.
405
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:51,051
Mr. Blandon.
406
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,927
During the years when you
were acting as a paid
407
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:55,565
informant of the U.S. government.
408
00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:01,090
The years you say you wholesaled cocaine
to my client in Los Angeles...
409
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:02,440
...was the government aware that you were
410
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,251
smuggling tons of cocaine
into the United States.
411
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:08,330
Objection. Relevance. Inflammatory.
412
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,402
The government called this witness,
your honor.
413
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,086
He is a paid confidential informant.
414
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,243
The jury has a right to know
the scope of his expertise.
415
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,683
Overruled.
416
00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:23,082
- Approach, your honor?
- Later.
417
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:27,165
Mr. Blandon?
418
00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:29,241
Yes.
419
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:31,129
- Yes what?
- The government knew.
420
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:34,449
- Knew everything?
- Objection. Speculation.
421
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,568
Sustained.
422
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,046
Mr. Blandon...
423
00:25:38,120 --> 00:25:41,602
...how much money did you
take in from cocaine sales
424
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,365
while you were working
for the U.S. government?
425
00:25:48,120 --> 00:25:52,091
One and a half billion dollars.
426
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:53,400
That's correct.
427
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,164
What did you do with that money?
428
00:25:55,240 --> 00:26:00,610
We made so much money we had to keep an
apartment just to keep the cash.
429
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:03,966
It was floor to ceiling dollars.
430
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,641
We had to rotate the money
from the top to the bottom...
431
00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,765
...to prevent mold from
coming on the money from
432
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:11,767
the humidity.
433
00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:12,648
What the fuck does this say?
434
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:14,808
Did he have a partner
or a government agency he
435
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,570
was working with?
436
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:21,407
Mr. Blandon, were you working
with a partner at that time?
437
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:22,607
Yes.
438
00:26:23,120 --> 00:26:26,329
Norwin Meneses.
439
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:27,765
That's correct.
440
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,161
Wait a second, what exactly
is happening here, your honor?
441
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,329
Clearly, this reporter
is giving direction to counsel.
442
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,448
- Approach.
- Thank you.
443
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,603
Your honor, this man
in the first row is a reporter
444
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,284
and he's giving questions to counsel.
445
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,243
If he is, and I'm not saying that he is...
446
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,243
Well, he is.
447
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,608
Ok, he is. But there's nothing in
the rules that says he can't.
448
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:54,886
I don't like it.
449
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,962
But I'm not going to stop it.
For now.
450
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,970
Then I am compelled to warn
the court that this door leads to
451
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,526
very sensitive national security matters.
452
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,887
Then maybe you shouldn't
have opened it.
453
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,771
Mr. Blandon, is it true
that you and Norwin Meneses...
454
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,765
...were in communication with
the federal government together?
455
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,401
Can you tell us who in the
federal government you
456
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,130
were in communication with?
457
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:28,924
Who were you working with?
458
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,804
The FBI?
459
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,164
Mr. Dodson can't answer
that question for you, Mr. Blandon.
460
00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,761
Remember, you're under oath.
461
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:47,602
The DEA?
462
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:50,803
No.
463
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:53,207
It was the CIA.
464
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,045
The Central Intelligence Agency.
465
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,602
Yes.
466
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,447
So, Mr. Blandon...
467
00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:05,447
...what did the CIA have you do?
468
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,204
Objection! Relevance, your honor!
469
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,762
Overruled. Mr. Blandon,
answer the question.
470
00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,562
We were asked to support...
471
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:32,608
...a free and democratic Nicaragua
- the Contras...
472
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,250
...the rebels...
473
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:38,207
...by sending planes into
Nicaragua and raising money here
474
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,760
in the U.S. for the war.
475
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:45,929
Mr. Blandon...
476
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:51,526
...did the CIA specifically know
that you were selling cocaine...
477
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,604
...to buy guns and supplies
to support its cause?
478
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,890
Objection! This line of
questioning has absolutely no relevance.
479
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,440
Overruled.
480
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,687
They knew who we were.
481
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,327
Why else would they come to us?
482
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,438
The day Ronald Reagan
got elected,
483
00:29:24,556 --> 00:29:27,051
the Cubans and the Soviets
started triggering...
484
00:29:27,086 --> 00:29:28,041
...revolutions all over
South and Central America.
485
00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:29,406
And when they got Nicaragua...
486
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,005
...that put them fifty miles
from the Panama Canal.
487
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,445
Reagan drew the line in the sand.
488
00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,160
And that's where America was
going to win the Cold War. Except...
489
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,040
...Congress hated Reagan's guts,
so they wanted nothing to do with him.
490
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,765
They were never going to
fund his little Contra war.
491
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,611
So the White House needed money.
Lots and lots of money.
492
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:44,727
Guys, that's the eighties.
493
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,804
- It's ten year old news. What's the story?
- Jerry, just let him finish.
494
00:29:46,839 --> 00:29:51,726
Look, one of the DEA's most wanted
- not only not in jail for eternity...
495
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,370
...but apparently
on the government payroll.
496
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,602
Admitting in open court
that he brought in thousands
497
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,200
of kilos of cocaine to the US every day.
498
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,959
- For them.
- For who?
499
00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:01,371
The US government.
Or with them.
500
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,727
Or at least while
they were looking the other way.
501
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:04,762
Jesus.
502
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,763
That little stunt
you pulled in that courtroom...
503
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:09,889
I got complaints
from Justice in Sacramento and Washington.
504
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:11,041
Yeah, but I got Blandon.
505
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,246
Jerry.
506
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:15,331
This is the biggest
story the Merc's ever had.
507
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,768
That's what worries me.
A lot of blind spots, you know?
508
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,247
We don't know Washington.
We don't do International.
509
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:22,202
We do now.
510
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,170
We do, do we? How many
CIA sources to you have?
511
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,242
- None yet.
- Get one.
512
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,524
What are they saying officially?
513
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:32,371
They're not even calling me back.
514
00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:35,330
Holy shit.
515
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:37,646
Gary...
516
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,604
You get some sources on the record,
see where we're at.
517
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,330
Watch your ass.
518
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,242
The success of Communism in
Central America poses the threat...
519
00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:54,570
...that a hundred million people from Panama
to the open border at our south...
520
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,723
...could come under the control
of pro-Soviet regimes.
521
00:30:57,920 --> 00:30:59,888
If we cut off the freedom fighters...
522
00:30:59,960 --> 00:31:04,124
...we will be giving the Soviets
a free hand in Central America.
523
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,089
Mr. Meneses?
524
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,925
Hi. Gary Webb. How are you?
525
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,449
Ok. What took you so long?
526
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,404
How's that?
527
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,040
No other reporter
has ever tried to find me.
528
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,088
Are you a friend, Mr. Webb?
529
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,084
Because your country
is no longer a friend of mine.
530
00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,284
I'm not an enemy.
531
00:32:40,560 --> 00:32:41,800
You play golf?
532
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,250
Hockey.
533
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,287
Step into my parlor.
534
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,245
The five iron.
535
00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:07,762
A perfectly designed club.
536
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:12,086
In golf, if you have a five iron,
you don't need anything else.
537
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,926
If you use it, like a tool.
You can carve any shot in the game.
538
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:19,561
You can even slice a man open
if you know how to use it properly.
539
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,401
So, guns for drugs...
540
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,242
You know, it's easy to think that
this situation was only about drugs.
541
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,761
But you need to look at
it from our point of view.
542
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,083
If the Contra movement would
have no friends and no money...
543
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,766
...we would have been forced to live under
a government that tells you what to say,
544
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:43,247
what not to say, what to think,
what not to think.
545
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,028
If you were me,
would you sit still and watch as your
546
00:33:46,063 --> 00:33:51,969
children are forced to live a life of
irrelevance and servitude?
547
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,089
And you watched
from the deck of your yacht?
548
00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:55,525
My yacht?
549
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,764
Norwin, you were arrested for trafficking
narcotics for the first time in 1975.
550
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,127
That's ten years before the Contra war.
551
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,444
Come on, you're not a freedom fighter.
552
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,082
I thought you were my friend.
553
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,004
Just looking for the truth.
554
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:11,889
Well you're gonna get the truth.
555
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,122
You got someone else down here
I could talk to?
556
00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:16,891
I can introduce you to my banker, Mr. Baier.
557
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,564
I'd like that.
558
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:27,928
Come, I show you the airstrip now.
559
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:32,605
So when did all of this start?
560
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,247
They were always looking
for ways to raise money to fight this war.
561
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:39,242
There was this one time when Ollie...
562
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,440
Ollie went to his friends in Washington,
563
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,888
- and this is years ago-
- Oliver North?
564
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,371
Oliver North.
565
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:50,325
No, Oliver Hardy. Yes, Oliver North.
566
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,847
So he said why don't we use the cash
seized from the cocaine arrests...
567
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:56,287
...to fund and support the Contra war?
568
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,050
Of course, they declined you know.
569
00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,167
But as you can see,
570
00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:02,403
Ollie wasn't the only
person with ideas like this.
571
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:10,245
Did it have to be drugs?
572
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:12,722
The ends justify the means.
573
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:14,446
Yeah, write that down.
574
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,250
You Americans don't
want coconuts or bananas.
575
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,091
You want cocaine,
and I know where to find cocaine.
576
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:23,728
And my pilots were already flying
from Central America to the United States.
577
00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,404
And they were American.
578
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,289
How long ago was this shut down?
579
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,246
Eight to ten years ago.
580
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,682
The land is now privately owned.
581
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,249
If I was in the CIA and I was risking my
life overseas doing something illegal...
582
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:46,766
...believe me, I would want someone
like me to help do the job.
583
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,442
Write this name down: Fred Weil.
584
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,364
W - E - I - L
585
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,603
That's the guy you have to talk to.
586
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:56,640
What was stored here?
587
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,730
Weapons. Cash.
588
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:02,531
Lots and lots of cash.
589
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:06,409
These pilots, do you know their names?
590
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,403
I don't know.
591
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,480
Now that you know the truth,
you will be faced with the
592
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:14,363
most important decision of your life.
593
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:16,090
Oh yeah. What's that?
594
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,888
Deciding whether to share it or not.
595
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,367
You have a family? You married?
596
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,969
Like I said.
597
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:38,801
The pilots used little airstrips
in Florida, Arizona, California.
598
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:40,331
Come.
599
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,370
I'll take care of it.
600
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,360
Down on your knees.
Keep your head down.
601
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:07,321
Don't answer that.
602
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,889
Passport.
603
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,401
Yes, we have to go now.
We're leaving.
604
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:31,801
Nice and calm.
605
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:35,929
Nice and calm.
606
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:17,162
You're where?
607
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,242
I'm in DC. And look, don't worry.
608
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,088
You want me here.
609
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,361
Trust me on this, Anna.
610
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:22,407
The guys are getting nervous.
611
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:23,681
You're supposed to be back here.
612
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,604
Look, I changed planes in Miami.
I kept all my receipts.
613
00:38:26,720 --> 00:38:30,042
I'll pay for my own damn flight back
home if I have to, all right?
614
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:30,928
We can't do this on the phone,
615
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:32,968
and I don't want
to do this on the phone.
616
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,367
Look, I've got to go.
617
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:49,686
Fred Weil?
618
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,768
Gary Webb, San Jose Mercury-News.
619
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,247
I don't talk to the press.
Call Public Affairs.
620
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:58,723
I spoke to Norwin Meneses.
621
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,683
That's classified. How did you get it?
622
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,963
Got it from a drug dealer.
623
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:12,846
Perfect.
624
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,389
Listen, I was John Kerry's
lead investigator on
625
00:39:17,687 --> 00:39:20,352
the senate subcommittee
that investigated this.
626
00:39:20,387 --> 00:39:23,289
You have no idea
what you're getting into.
627
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:26,687
Why don't you tell me?
628
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,364
Tell me what I'm getting into.
629
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,403
I'm on the National
Security Council now.
630
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:42,246
And I have the trust
of the President and his cabinet.
631
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,887
It took me ten years
to get back to that place.
632
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,361
Your name goes nowhere near this.
633
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,969
This conversation never happened.
You have my word on that.
634
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,120
You ever done anything like this before?
635
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:58,361
No.
636
00:39:58,440 --> 00:39:59,646
Has your paper?
637
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,091
Not that I'm aware of.
638
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,607
Some fancy information that you have there.
639
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:08,810
And dangerous.
640
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:10,968
I'd be remiss if I didn't
tell you that other reporters
641
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,890
have been down this rabbit hole.
642
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,804
Seasoned reporters.
Who knew their way around Washington.
643
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:17,920
And Central America.
644
00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,440
- So what are you telling me?
- I had an American citizen...
645
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,764
...a rich Republican Party fund-raiser,
a White House favorite, in my office..
646
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:26,683
...upset about things he was hearing.
647
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,764
He believed in freedom
and defeating communism...
648
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,764
...but not in laundering
narcotics money for guns.
649
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,526
And he's sitting
in my office in the U.S. Senate...
650
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:41,447
...and he gets a phone call
telling him that if he talked to me...
651
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,125
...he'd die.
652
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:49,323
This is your ticket out of small time,
right?
653
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,366
- You're going to make your bones on this.
- This is a true story
654
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,330
My friend, some stories
are just too true to tell.
655
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,570
That's bullshit.
656
00:40:58,640 --> 00:40:59,846
Yeah?
657
00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:03,609
And yes, it is.
658
00:41:03,920 --> 00:41:05,888
Congratulations.
You figured that out.
659
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:11,363
"Too true to tell. "
660
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,602
Welcome to San Francisco
International airport.
661
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,160
Please do not leave your bags unattended.
662
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:10,770
Sometimes I wish I could just climb
inside that head of yours
663
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,521
...and see all the shit you carry around.
664
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,090
Really?
665
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:17,925
No. Not really.
666
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,409
There's too many bad guys.
667
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,410
And ghosts.
668
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:29,451
And scary monsters running around.
669
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:33,122
Well, what do you want me to do,
Sue? Do something else for a living?
670
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:35,761
No.
671
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:43,250
This one just scares me.
672
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:50,160
Be careful.
673
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:53,241
Hey.
674
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:02,920
Yeah.
675
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:10,645
Jesus.
676
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:15,921
Hello?
677
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:17,769
It's Russell Dodson.
678
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,130
Hello, Russell Dodson.
679
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:26,403
Listen, we haven't
handled this right at all.
680
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,847
Before you print anything,
there's a few guys from
681
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,241
D.C. that would like
to sit down with you.
682
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:33,689
You should hear them out.
683
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,325
I'm listening.
684
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,361
Gary.
685
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,045
Thanks for coming.
686
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,771
I'm Agent Miller,
and this is Agent Jones.
687
00:45:03,080 --> 00:45:05,765
- Can we get you a cup of coffee?
- No.
688
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,288
How about one of those cappuccinos?
689
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,610
Just got a new espresso machine probably
cost the tax payers thirty grand.
690
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:15,251
No, I'm fine.
691
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,884
Get him a cappuccino.
692
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,928
Now we don't agree
with everything that happens in
693
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:27,646
our agencies, so this
is a little awkward for us.
694
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,048
But you're getting
into some sensitive areas.
695
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,170
There are ongoing operations
you're in danger of exposing.
696
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,411
Operations that have taken months,
years to set up.
697
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,769
Thousands of man hours,
millions to fund.
698
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:48,090
And how do you know that?
699
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:52,923
We know you were in Nicaragua.
We know you saw Meneses.
700
00:45:57,240 --> 00:45:58,810
Am I being followed?
701
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:00,320
What's your angle, Webb?
702
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:02,926
Some governmental informants are scumbags?
703
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,970
Look, I was under the impression that
you guys had something to say to me?
704
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,923
But, to answer your question, no.
705
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,168
My angle is that the
American government knew drugs were
706
00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:12,402
put on the streets
to fund an illegal war.
707
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,603
What you want to say happened,
never happened.
708
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,169
Then why am I here?
709
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:22,925
American kids...
710
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:24,764
...were going to die in that war.
711
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,890
American kids did die.
They're still dying.
712
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,606
Just not the ones you care about,
apparently.
713
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,611
We'd never threaten your children, Mr. Webb.
714
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:35,409
My children?
715
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:38,329
What did you say?
716
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,764
I'm writing the story.
717
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,844
Okay. I'm about to press "send".
718
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,646
We're ready. All hands on deck.
719
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:53,410
Don't over-edit it.
720
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:55,160
Don't worry.
721
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:57,880
Anna.
722
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:00,447
Gary. I got it.
723
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:03,242
Go enjoy your family.
724
00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:24,882
Let's go, let's go, let's go!
725
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,566
All right last one in is a rotten egg!
726
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,444
Is it cold or warm?
727
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,442
- It's warm.
- Ready?
728
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:36,648
All right; precious cargo.
729
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:39,811
Dizzy yet?
730
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:41,046
- No.
- Okay.
731
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,202
Come on, Momma!
732
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,362
- Come on, Mom, get in.
- Why do they gang up on momma?
733
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,161
- You have to dry my hair!
- Where you going, Dad?
734
00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,648
- Dad...
- Don't!
735
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,928
Dad, it's up! It's online!
736
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:08,526
Mom!
737
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,602
Oh my god, Mom, check this out.
It just went up. It's everywhere.
738
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:14,448
Gary!
739
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:15,726
For the better part of a decade,
740
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,531
a San Francisco Bay-area
drug ring sold tons of cocaine...
741
00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:21,809
...to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of
Los Angeles and funneled millions...
742
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:24,446
...in drug profits to
Latin American guerrilla army run
743
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:25,965
by the US Central Intelligence Agency...
744
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,003
...a Mercury news investigation has found.
745
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,720
This drug network opened the first
pipeline between Columbia and...
746
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:45,081
Hey.
747
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:48,250
Hey.
748
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:50,690
You did it.
749
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,604
Yeah.
750
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:56,962
Want to go fool around in the woods?
751
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:00,882
Yeah.
752
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:03,611
- Yes, I do.
- Yes, I do.
753
00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,641
- Don't look, don't look.
- Hey, come on!
754
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:12,082
You should see our switchboard!
It is lit up like a Christmas tree!
755
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,162
We're getting calls
from all over the world. Gary.
756
00:51:14,240 --> 00:51:15,685
What do you want to do?
757
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,240
Well, it's just the beginning,
isn't it?
758
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,089
I think there's more to do.
759
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:22,567
Got to keep riding out the story.
Keep digging.
760
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:23,448
Anything you need.
761
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:25,762
Okay? But take a victory lap.
762
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,042
Hey, that graphic you guys used?
763
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,691
The crack pipe on the CIA emblem?
764
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:31,722
Are you out of your mind?
765
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:33,723
It's like the CIA is cooking
crack in their basement.
766
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,009
Gary. That was my idea,
so blame me, but come on.
767
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:38,650
We got their attention, didn't we?
768
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,081
We're just calling
to say thanks for doing this.
769
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:45,643
- There is a lot of pride here this morning.
- Congratulations, buddy.
770
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:47,091
Hey. Gary.
771
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,525
Yeah?
772
00:51:48,720 --> 00:51:50,085
You did it.
773
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:51,804
This is the big one.
774
00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:54,129
Enjoy yourself!
775
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:22,128
Let's focus on the Washington Post,
New York Times and the LA Times.
776
00:52:22,240 --> 00:52:24,049
And get Richard
Zuckerman on the phone.
777
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:39,846
What interests me is who is gonna tell me
how we missed this goddamned story.
778
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:41,684
How'd the San Jose Mercury News,
779
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,604
a paper one-fifth the size
of the Los Angeles Times...
780
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:46,609
...and three hundred
miles away-scooped us...
781
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:47,846
...on one of the most
important stories in this city in,
782
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:50,127
in what? Twenty years?
783
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,527
How about you, Rich?
Didn't you cover Ricky Ross?
784
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,250
- Parts of it.
- Yeah, apparently the wrong parts.
785
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:55,840
We had Blandon in one of our stories.
786
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:57,524
- As what?
- A government source.
787
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:58,761
He's also apparently almost single-handedly
788
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:00,609
responsible for the crack epidemic.
789
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:02,131
Which, by the way, started right here...
790
00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:06,086
...in Watts,
five fucking miles from where we're sitting.
791
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,167
Look, I don't need to tell you this...
792
00:53:08,240 --> 00:53:12,325
...but if this story stands,
some of your people are going to jail.
793
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:14,846
The idea that any one person
could have played a decisive
794
00:53:15,519 --> 00:53:18,687
- role in the crack epidemic is absurd.
- What about Norwin Meneses?
795
00:53:19,038 --> 00:53:21,971
We have no documentation that
this guy ever did any business with us.
796
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,321
This Gary Webb, he's got nothing.
797
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:27,324
He's got drug dealers and
money launderers as sources.
798
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,448
Rich, you know this guy Webb.
What do you think?
799
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,250
It's thin.
800
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:35,248
Except that he posted all
his sources on the Merc website.
801
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,163
- So?
- So nobody's done that before.
802
00:53:37,240 --> 00:53:40,449
I need every line of that story taken
apart and checked for inaccuracies.
803
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:42,648
Get Dominic Brady
back here from Washington.
804
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:46,162
- I want at least fifteen people on this
thing. - What if we're over reacting?
805
00:53:46,240 --> 00:53:48,049
I mean, it's the San Jose Mercury News.
806
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,407
Is anyone even going to pay attention?
807
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,923
A reporter for the
San Jose Mercury News suggested...
808
00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:56,606
...that the CIA might have played a role...
809
00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:58,967
...in permitting Nicaraguan
drug dealers to distribute...
810
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:03,807
...crack cocaine in south central
Los Angeles during the 1980's.
811
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:08,244
That had enormous resonance within
the African-American community.
812
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,160
We have been faked out,
we have been tricked,
813
00:54:12,240 --> 00:54:14,049
and we have been undermined.
814
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:17,090
If they had put that crack
in Beverly Hills,
815
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:19,328
it would be a presidential issue.
816
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,609
We love our children.
Just like you love yours.
817
00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:25,126
I think it is enough information here...
818
00:54:25,240 --> 00:54:28,926
...to say to the CIA,
you stand accused.
819
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:32,561
President Clinton will be back out
on the campaign trail next week -
820
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:36,849
I've got...
821
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:40,766
...requests for you from CNN, CNBC...
822
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:45,283
...Jerry Springer,
Geraldo Rivera and Montel Williams.
823
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:48,286
The London Times and Le Monde
are sending in to interview you...
824
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,768
...and Sixty Minutes
and Dateline both want you, but
825
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:53,285
only if you don't do the other one.
826
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,926
And I just got the call last night...
827
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:59,961
...the National Press
Association Journalist of the Year...
828
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,082
...is Mr. Gary Webb.
829
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:03,611
Congratulations. Gary.
830
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:11,406
On, baby!
831
00:55:15,098 --> 00:55:16,835
- Thank you.
- Life's beautiful.
832
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:27,443
It's checking out Richard.
I spoke with the banker in Panama City.
833
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,082
His name is Hans Yorg Baier.
He met with Webb. He confirmed...
834
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,521
...he laundered drug money for the Contras.
835
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,409
Norwin Meneses was his client.
836
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:37,927
Are these sources reliable enough?
For the Post?
837
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,764
I mean, they're all drug dealers.
838
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:41,644
The banker isn't a drug dealer.
839
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:45,685
Also, there's this American ex-pat that had
a ranch in the jungle for thirty years.
840
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:49,526
And he let these two American pilots
land and take off from his airstrip.
841
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:52,604
And, he let them store
dope on his property.
842
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:54,720
You're talking to drug
dealers and money launderers.
843
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,649
I'm talking to Langley.
844
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:57,886
Well, I'm filing.
845
00:55:57,960 --> 00:55:59,928
You guys do whatever you want with it.
846
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:05,931
So what's our point of view?
847
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,520
That Webb doesn't have any
legitimate sources...
848
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:12,082
That the CIA would never use these
low-lifes and in fact denies it,
849
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:13,480
in fact denies it unequivocally.
850
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,604
That basically, he's a
fraud and so is his story.
851
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:21,927
'll take that upstairs
and see if it'll fly.
852
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:27,241
Yeah, you're going to turn into a chip.
853
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:28,725
Hey, wait you guys, it's on.
854
00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:30,404
Come here, it's on.
855
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,450
In tonight's Eye on America,
accusations...
856
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,251
...underscore the word
accusations" that are nothing...
857
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,800
...short of explosive.
hat the CIA...
858
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,870
...knowingly and intentionally
did what amounts
859
00:56:42,027 --> 00:56:45,689
- to pump crack cocaine into Los Angeles...
- That's not what he said.
860
00:56:45,724 --> 00:56:48,642
- ... to help fund rebels in Nicaragua.
- You never said "intentionally. "
861
00:56:48,677 --> 00:56:51,403
Whether or not these claims prove true,
they anger they...
862
00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,045
A lot of people are saying...
863
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:01,327
...of course,
including people in Congress...
864
00:57:01,400 --> 00:57:07,123
that the CIA intentionally addicted
African Americans to crack cocaine.
865
00:57:07,240 --> 00:57:10,687
Right. Well, what you and others are
doing is putting words in my mouth.
866
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:11,966
We never made that claim.
867
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,687
What have you got to prove that
Americans working in the US government...
868
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:18,206
...collaborated in selling
crack cocaine into the
869
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:21,011
African American community of Los Angeles?
870
00:57:21,080 --> 00:57:24,243
Well, first of all, we never
said that Americans working
871
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:25,680
in the government were doing this.
872
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,326
These were Nicaraguans
working for the CIA-run army.
873
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:31,449
Okay. It's not CIA-U.S. officials.
874
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:32,681
Not that we know so far.
875
00:57:32,760 --> 00:57:34,683
Okay. It's not U.S. officials.
Okay. Go ahead.
876
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:39,322
What the CIA wanted to do was to fight
a war that Congress didn't want.
877
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:40,606
And the ripple effect of that
878
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,529
what happened in south Los Angeles
and other American cities
879
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,204
well that was a mistake.
880
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,362
This is a smoking cannon...
881
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:49,762
...that leads all the
way to the White House.
882
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:51,605
We have no evidence...
883
00:57:51,680 --> 00:57:53,444
...of a conspiracy by the CIA...
884
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,251
...to engage in encouraging
drug traffickers in Nicaragua...
885
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:58,249
I am going to make somebody...
886
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:03,207
...pay for what they have done
to my community and to my people.
887
00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:05,044
Don't give me the conspiracy bull -
888
00:58:05,120 --> 00:58:09,648
There has never been
a conspiracy in this country.
889
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:33,441
Senior Baier...
890
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:50,921
Hello?
891
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,764
It's Fred Weil.
892
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,208
You haven't seen the east coast papers yet?
893
00:58:58,200 --> 00:58:59,406
No.
894
00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:02,204
It's 4 AM.
895
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:09,282
I was you once. Gary,
896
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:14,642
I started down this road.
Though nowhere near as far as you are.
897
00:59:16,114 --> 00:59:19,689
When they saw... I wasn't gonna stop,
they 'controversialized' me.
898
00:59:23,320 --> 00:59:25,322
Do you have any idea
what I'm talking about?
899
00:59:28,400 --> 00:59:30,721
They make you the story.
900
00:59:32,200 --> 00:59:37,525
And you have a history of schizophrenia,
you're a liar, you're a homo...
901
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:39,523
...you beat your dog...
902
00:59:39,857 --> 00:59:42,402
...you're a pedophile,
it doesn't matter if none of it's true.
903
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:45,922
The point is... no one remembers
what you found. They remember you...
904
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:48,723
...and you're nuts.
905
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,049
You cease to exist.
906
00:59:55,760 --> 00:59:57,410
You there?
907
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:00,969
Yeah, I'm here.
908
01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:03,321
Remember, you get the most flak...
909
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,366
...when you're right above the target.
910
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:09,889
That's when they empty
all their guns into you.
911
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:13,521
When you're about
to drop a bomb on the on the Kremlin...
912
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,291
Or in this case,
the Central Intelligence Agency.
913
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:23,763
Hang in there. Gary.
914
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,086
Morning.
915
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,371
You guys don't look so good.
916
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:01,440
Morning, Gary.
917
01:01:01,520 --> 01:01:02,885
Good morning.
918
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:04,610
We just want to take your temperature,
you know, get
919
01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:07,001
your perspective before we weigh in here.
920
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:08,647
About what?
921
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:11,764
Well, the CIA's response to you for one.
922
01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,042
Well, there isn't one really, is there?
923
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:15,606
Still nothing?
924
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:19,063
Not a single source?
I mean... at this point,
925
01:01:19,098 --> 01:01:21,843
I'll take anybody who takes home
a check from the CIA. Anyone.
926
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:23,524
They're a secretive organization,
927
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,251
Jerry. I mean, that's what they do.
They're secretive. They don't talk.
928
01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,480
Well, at least the Washington
Post isn't saying we got
929
01:01:28,600 --> 01:01:29,522
all our facts wrong.
930
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:30,761
Because they're not.
931
01:01:30,880 --> 01:01:33,565
But what the Post is saying is that
we're just here to attest to the moral
932
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,246
purity of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
933
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,721
Gary, Walter Zuckerman is a living legend.
934
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,610
Yeah, who thinks his job
is to defend the CIA.
935
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:42,801
He used to work for them.
936
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,924
He was a media intern for
god's sakes. Am I crazy?
937
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:48,606
I mean reading this stuff
is like reading Pravda circa 1953,
938
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:50,444
you guys. I mean,
what am I missing here?
939
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:54,366
Gary, cards on the table.
We got a call from Corporate this morning.
940
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:55,800
They are getting a little nervous.
941
01:01:55,840 --> 01:01:58,047
And so we're just going to take a beat,
step back,
942
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,168
look at the big picture
on behalf of the paper.
943
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,130
We don't want to print anything else
until we get our ducks in a row, ok?
944
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:04,924
And we're keeping you in the loop.
945
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:07,762
No big deal
946
01:02:07,840 --> 01:02:10,161
- Gary, can I talk to you for a second?
- Yeah.
947
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:28,005
I just got a call.
948
01:02:28,120 --> 01:02:31,044
NBC's cancelling their segment on the
story. They're not gonna run it.
949
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:32,804
And you're not going to believe this,
but we've heard
950
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:34,570
the Washington Post is going
to say you're an active
951
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:36,449
part of Ricky Ross' defense...
952
01:02:36,600 --> 01:02:38,284
...that your involvement verges
on complicity and that
953
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:41,324
you and Ricky Ross are telling
this fairy tale together.
954
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:43,889
- It's not funny.
- Come on.
955
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,281
- It's funny.
- No, our careers could be on the line.
956
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:48,448
Look, we drew blood.
They're going to say anything.
957
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:49,965
Would you?
958
01:02:50,680 --> 01:02:51,886
What?
959
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,527
I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.
960
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:57,285
You think I'd make some shit up?
961
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:58,925
No.
962
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,443
- You're my editor.
- I know.
963
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:05,283
It's my name on this story but it's
your name on that damn door.
964
01:03:05,800 --> 01:03:07,404
Don't forget that.
965
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:09,290
Right there.
966
01:03:16,280 --> 01:03:17,691
It's Rich Kline.
967
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:19,730
It's Gary Webb.
968
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:22,090
Really?
969
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:24,888
Ok.
970
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:28,445
Hello?
971
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,284
What's happening here, Rich?
972
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,607
The only people you have in your story...
973
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:35,250
...is the former Director of the CIA,
974
01:03:35,360 --> 01:03:37,681
the current Director
of the CIA and - guess who -
975
01:03:37,760 --> 01:03:40,047
...a bunch of CIA officials.
976
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:42,204
Are you following up on anything
I wrote or are you
977
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:43,691
just talking to the CIA?
978
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:45,285
I can't be talking to you.
979
01:03:46,200 --> 01:03:47,531
Why?
980
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:50,644
I don't know. I'm sorry.
981
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,648
Son of a bitch.
982
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:54,090
What the fuck.
983
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:41,766
Hey!
984
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:48,250
What the hell you doing?
985
01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:55,850
I can see you!
986
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:22,285
Son of a bitch
987
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:26,646
Son of a bitch!
988
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:28,683
I saw him and I chased
him down the goddamned street.
989
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:30,762
Ok, so then you tried to shoot the guy.
990
01:06:31,240 --> 01:06:32,969
I fired a warning shot.
991
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:34,765
I have a family to protect.
992
01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:35,881
Did he try to break in?
993
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:39,760
No. He was at the back of my car.
He wasn't trying to steal it.
994
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,287
I don't know what the hell he was
doing but he was there.
995
01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:45,085
See his fingerprints or some shit.
996
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,891
He was messing with it,
I don't know what he was doing.
997
01:06:57,440 --> 01:06:58,851
What are you doing?
998
01:06:59,960 --> 01:07:02,850
Do you have any reason to believe
your family's in danger, Mr. Webb?
999
01:07:06,160 --> 01:07:07,400
No.
1000
01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:10,205
No.
1001
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:12,526
Dad!
1002
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:13,600
What is that?
1003
01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:15,326
That's Ian.
1004
01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:17,886
You can't - put that shit down.
1005
01:07:17,960 --> 01:07:19,405
Hey dad! Dad!
1006
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,321
All these people just came down and
are looking through all your shit!
1007
01:07:23,120 --> 01:07:24,690
Can I help you?
1008
01:07:24,920 --> 01:07:25,682
You can't be in here.
1009
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:27,603
- It's a crime scene.
- It's not a crime scene.
1010
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:31,564
Excuse me, this is my house
- what are you doing?
1011
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:33,563
Who the fuck are you?
1012
01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:36,564
Hey, will you put this down?
This is my shit! This is my house!
1013
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:38,608
Get the fuck out!
1014
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:40,170
Get the fuck out of here!
1015
01:07:47,880 --> 01:07:50,770
Ian, anybody comes down here,
hit them with that.
1016
01:08:00,840 --> 01:08:02,285
I see you!
1017
01:08:14,400 --> 01:08:16,920
I know you had a hard night
last night but I need to warn you...
1018
01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:19,122
before you come into work
tomorrow that the next week
1019
01:08:19,240 --> 01:08:22,084
or so is going to be rough.
1020
01:08:23,600 --> 01:08:25,728
Now Dateline thinks you lied to
them so they're coming after you.
1021
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,326
And so is Nightline,
1022
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:30,767
and every other major that
hasn't had their shot yet.
1023
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,050
Well, the story's tight.
1024
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:37,170
It's not perfect.
1025
01:08:37,240 --> 01:08:40,084
Well, Jerry put the brakes on.
I need to keep going.
1026
01:08:40,400 --> 01:08:42,402
I'm not done, Anna.
1027
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,404
And I need you to protect me so
I can finish what we started.
1028
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:47,922
It's not the story now.
1029
01:08:48,160 --> 01:08:49,924
This is about you.
1030
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,921
The New York Times gave us a courtesy call.
They went into everything.
1031
01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:55,008
Every closet and corner of your life.
1032
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:59,324
Every speeding ticket, every bar fight,
every libel suit
1033
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:00,765
That's gossip, that's not news.
1034
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:01,767
And now Jerry's talking
about you working out of the
1035
01:09:01,840 --> 01:09:03,410
Cupertino office for a while.
1036
01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:06,006
Jerry's out of his mind.
That's not happening.
1037
01:09:06,080 --> 01:09:07,923
Hey bud, come on in.
1038
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:09,969
That's not a good idea.
1039
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:12,684
Ian, go to your room.
1040
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:24,205
What is this?
1041
01:09:24,520 --> 01:09:26,682
They found out about that woman?
1042
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:33,725
The woman in Cleveland,
at the Plain Dealer.
1043
01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,325
Yeah? And?
1044
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:39,722
Why didn't you tell us the whole story?
1045
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:46,241
What the fuck.
1046
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:49,278
Look, who I do or what
the fuck I do in my life
1047
01:09:49,436 --> 01:09:51,732
is not your concern,
you understand that?
1048
01:09:51,767 --> 01:09:53,560
- This is between my wife and I, god...
- Excuse me.
1049
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:59,847
It's between my wife and I,
goddammit it's not your fucking concern.
1050
01:10:01,040 --> 01:10:05,125
You can take any man's life,
put in under a microscope.
1051
01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:08,289
You can dissect it, turn a simple
man's life into a circus sideshow,
1052
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:09,970
you know that.
1053
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:13,924
What about the rest of me?
1054
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:16,242
Can we focus on that?
1055
01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,370
Dad, what happened in Cleveland?
1056
01:10:41,720 --> 01:10:42,881
Come on.
1057
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:51,924
There's no such thing as
a little mistake, Ian.
1058
01:10:52,960 --> 01:10:55,406
One wrong turn and you're lost.
1059
01:10:56,120 --> 01:10:59,442
- Keep turning trying to get back-
- You sound like a writer, writing.
1060
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:03,004
I'm asking my father
what happened in Cleveland.
1061
01:11:08,440 --> 01:11:09,930
I screwed up.
1062
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:16,650
Who was it?
1063
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:21,683
A reporter in the newsroom.
1064
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:25,809
What was her name?
1065
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:31,010
- Why does that matter?
- It matters to me.
1066
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:37,410
Barbara.
1067
01:11:41,240 --> 01:11:43,004
Did you love her?
1068
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:45,610
No.
1069
01:11:46,080 --> 01:11:47,809
Do you love mom?
1070
01:11:48,440 --> 01:11:50,363
I love your mother.
1071
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:55,083
You, your brother, your sister,
your mother...
1072
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,925
You're everything to me.
You're all I got.
1073
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:02,288
I couldn't stand losing that.
1074
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:05,729
What happened to her?
1075
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,083
She committed suicide.
1076
01:12:23,360 --> 01:12:24,850
That's really shitty.
1077
01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:27,602
Yeah it was.
1078
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:30,208
Is that why we left Ohio?
1079
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,404
Because you ran away?
1080
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:35,560
Yeah, we needed a fresh start.
1081
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:40,251
God, I'm really disappointed in you.
1082
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:46,405
Mom's amazing.
1083
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:20,400
We don't have a choice, Gary.
This is the only option
1084
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,244
on the table right now.
1085
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:24,362
Good for you to get out
of the line of fire for a beat.
1086
01:13:24,440 --> 01:13:28,411
You can cool off, pop out
some easy human interest stuff.
1087
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:51,689
Dad, what's in Cupertino?
1088
01:13:51,760 --> 01:13:53,683
It's the paper's bureau for losers.
1089
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,285
Where I won't get in trouble.
1090
01:13:57,880 --> 01:13:59,245
Or so they think.
1091
01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:02,402
Maybe just don't go, Daddy.
1092
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:08,329
I know. But honey, Daddy's
got to go to work.
1093
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,448
We've got the house to pay for
and all these school clothes.
1094
01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:12,568
You guys are growing like weeds.
1095
01:14:14,440 --> 01:14:15,771
Look after them.
1096
01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:18,765
You guys be good.
1097
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:24,050
Photos. Your old records.
1098
01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:27,806
- Some of Christine's drawings.
- Ok.
1099
01:14:28,640 --> 01:14:30,324
That kind of thing.
1100
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:32,251
I hate this.
1101
01:14:32,320 --> 01:14:33,810
I know.
1102
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:38,644
I don't want to be alone.
1103
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,288
I'm no good at it, you know that.
1104
01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,160
Maybe some time apart will be a good thing.
1105
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:53,729
Well, it's got to be.
1106
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,126
Ok.
1107
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:04,242
I love you, daddy.
1108
01:15:04,320 --> 01:15:06,288
- Bye.
- Love you too.
1109
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:09,609
Love you, daddy!
1110
01:16:01,760 --> 01:16:04,240
I was told that the
Police Department is having trouble
1111
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:06,641
keeping the troopers' horses healthy...
1112
01:16:09,040 --> 01:16:12,408
Yeah, I hear it was bowel trouble?
1113
01:16:14,080 --> 01:16:15,570
Constipation.
1114
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:33,126
I have you on record as working
in Nicaragua with John Cullen
1115
01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:35,368
and Barry Reid between '81 and '85.
1116
01:16:35,440 --> 01:16:38,171
Yeah, I worked with Reid,
but I don't know Cullen.
1117
01:16:38,240 --> 01:16:40,242
You got any contact info for Reid?
1118
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:43,210
Last I heard he was in New Orleans.
I think he died though.
1119
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,726
I'd like to review your flight logs.
Names of pilots-
1120
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,325
I can't do that, Mr. Webb.
1121
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:49,050
Is there anyone else I can speak to?
1122
01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:51,441
I don't know, maybe if you try back
in a week you can talk to my boss.
1123
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:53,090
Is Cullen residing in Lake City?
1124
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,931
Down in Florida maybe? Look,
I can't talk to you.
1125
01:17:38,040 --> 01:17:40,566
You didn't even open the box I gave you.
1126
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:46,805
What? Oh honey, I can't open that.
1127
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,005
You can't?
1128
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:50,809
Look, I gotta focus.
1129
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:53,890
You understand? I gotta focus
so I can finish this thing.
1130
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:58,410
And then what happens?
1131
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:01,410
Then it's done.
1132
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:03,564
And then what?
1133
01:18:06,440 --> 01:18:10,445
Then what? What? I didn't choose
what's happening here, Sue.
1134
01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:14,251
I didn't choose this.
I don't want to fucking be here in
1135
01:18:14,320 --> 01:18:17,164
this shitbox. Away from home.
1136
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:20,404
Come on. What is this?
1137
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:22,410
What do you mean?
1138
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,969
Can't you see what this
is doing to all of us?
1139
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:31,004
That's not fair.
1140
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:34,600
Look, you are who you always were, Gary.
1141
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:37,648
No regret...
1142
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:41,282
...no blame, no judgment, it's just a fact.
1143
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,081
I guess it's me who's changed.
1144
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:55,564
What are you saying?
1145
01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:04,607
- What are you saying?
- I don't know.
1146
01:19:11,080 --> 01:19:12,605
You do know.
1147
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,604
Say it!
1148
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:26,329
I don't know.
1149
01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:18,604
Don't turn on the light.
1150
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:25,723
I'm John Cullen.
1151
01:20:28,240 --> 01:20:29,924
Do you know that name?
1152
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:43,408
What you found here, Gary, is a monster.
1153
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:17,605
I was recruited by the Agency...
1154
01:21:18,800 --> 01:21:20,768
...out of college.
1155
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:24,931
I knew Spanish and Law...
1156
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:27,967
...and I wanted to do good.
1157
01:21:28,400 --> 01:21:31,324
I wanted to fight some evil empire.
1158
01:21:34,080 --> 01:21:36,651
I went to Central America.
1159
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,444
Made nice with radicals.
1160
01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:44,566
Slept with some of the pretty ones.
1161
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:49,048
And turned in names.
1162
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:57,609
Then I started noticing
that they were disappearing.
1163
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,809
Permanently.
1164
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:03,767
The people that we hunted...
1165
01:22:04,560 --> 01:22:06,608
Murdered...
1166
01:22:07,800 --> 01:22:09,404
All they had...
1167
01:22:09,560 --> 01:22:15,249
...was a deep desire to reform the
government and have free elections.
1168
01:22:17,600 --> 01:22:19,728
That's it.
1169
01:22:21,160 --> 01:22:22,525
After I left the Agency,
1170
01:22:22,600 --> 01:22:25,285
I worked my way
into a major drug cartel.
1171
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:27,402
It was early Medellin.
1172
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,371
I solved logistical issues.
1173
01:22:31,880 --> 01:22:35,248
Bringing supply into the United States.
1174
01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:38,400
Paved the way, you might say...
1175
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:43,046
...as the traffic grew. And grew.
1176
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:49,163
Well someone in Washington knows what
you do and is doing nothing to stop it.
1177
01:22:49,240 --> 01:22:51,766
It's all lies and corruption, Gary.
1178
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:55,686
You become attracted to the power,
then you become addicted to the power...
1179
01:22:55,760 --> 01:22:58,331
...then you're devoured by the power.
1180
01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:05,288
Your thing and my thing,
are they connected?
1181
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:14,650
Are they the same?
1182
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:25,561
Yes. They are the same.
1183
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:34,689
Danilo Blandon.
1184
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:42,765
This is him. Yesterday.
1185
01:23:43,160 --> 01:23:45,606
This is you here. Today.
1186
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:49,603
Nobody wants to hear your sad story,
Gary.
1187
01:23:51,880 --> 01:23:53,530
You can go on record.
1188
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:57,768
And end up dead?
1189
01:23:58,960 --> 01:24:00,405
No.
1190
01:24:04,680 --> 01:24:06,250
Then why are you here?
1191
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:11,245
I'm confessing.
1192
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:15,444
Who else am I going to tell?
1193
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:34,445
Anna?
1194
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:40,920
Who is it?
1195
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:44,685
It's Gary
1196
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:53,325
It's six in the morning.
1197
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:55,050
I found him. Or he found me.
1198
01:24:55,120 --> 01:24:56,770
- Who?
- The asset.
1199
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:59,320
It's the piece I've been missing.
The only thing I didn't have.
1200
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:02,529
It's what you kept asking for.
So I can keep going.
1201
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:07,767
He was a part of the operation, Anna.
You understandthat? CIA.
1202
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:12,007
Look if I can just get him to go on record,
1203
01:25:12,080 --> 01:25:12,888
he'll confirm everything.
1204
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:14,769
He came to my goddamned motel room.
1205
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:16,120
- I'm not finished with it.
- You gotta talk to Jerry about this.
1206
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:17,048
Calm down.
1207
01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:18,281
I'm not finished!
1208
01:25:18,400 --> 01:25:22,769
Look, I'm trying to keep you on the payroll,
ok? I'm trying to save your career.
1209
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:26,566
I know I'm not just gonna sit back
and be quiet and do nothing
1210
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:28,210
so I can collect your goddamn check.
1211
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:29,884
- I understand.
- You know that. You know me.
1212
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:31,200
I'm gonna keep going.
1213
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:32,611
I'm gonna finish this.
1214
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,604
For you.
Or I'm gonna do it for somebody else.
1215
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:37,840
Look, there's a staff meeting tomorrow.
1216
01:25:37,920 --> 01:25:40,207
We'll talk about it there. OK?
1217
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:42,245
OK.
1218
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,563
OK.
1219
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:35,205
Morning, Gary.
1220
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:39,763
I wanted to run a couple
ideas past you guys.
1221
01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:41,569
About this asset, the CIA asset.
1222
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:43,210
Gary, have a seat.
1223
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:51,565
- Hey Pete.
- Hey.
1224
01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:54,085
When'd you get in from Washington?
1225
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:57,084
No easy way to say this,
Gary so I'm just going to say it.
1226
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:01,242
We've had Pete backtrack
a few of your leads.
1227
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:04,445
Why didn't you tell me?
1228
01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:06,409
Well I'm telling you now.
1229
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:07,562
Pete, why didn't you say anything?
1230
01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:11,201
We didn't like some of the some of the
stuff that Pete brought back, ok?
1231
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:13,601
Some of your sources
have changed their stories.
1232
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:14,761
Of course they did.
1233
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:18,401
Well, they're saying they never said
the things you have them saying.
1234
01:27:18,560 --> 01:27:20,608
Well that's how they operate, Jerry.
1235
01:27:20,720 --> 01:27:22,404
- "They"?
- The Agency.
1236
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:23,601
They deny everything.
1237
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:26,411
Everyone who works with the CIA,
the CIA denies everything.
1238
01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:29,649
Did you ever get an actual
CIA operative on the record?
1239
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:30,842
We never made that claim.
1240
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:33,127
I think that's been
very clear at this point.
1241
01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:35,402
Did you not tell them about
the guy who came to my hotel room?
1242
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:38,000
But he said he's not going
on the record, Gary.
1243
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:40,603
- No. I think I made-
- Did you get anyone who works
1244
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:43,087
for the CIA on the record?
1245
01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:45,041
Who is this guy?
1246
01:27:45,120 --> 01:27:45,928
Outside Counsel.
1247
01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:49,283
OK, let me catch you up
to speed here, counselor.
1248
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:52,768
The CIA uses people who work for the CIA.
1249
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:55,161
They also use people who work with the CIA.
1250
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:56,048
You get the difference.
1251
01:27:56,120 --> 01:27:58,771
We don't operate in a
courtroom or in absolutes, Gary.
1252
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:00,604
We operate in shades of grey.
1253
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:04,085
I didn't realize truth was a
shade of grey. Anyone else?
1254
01:28:04,120 --> 01:28:05,802
It's not what you can prove,
it's what people say they remember.
1255
01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:07,763
Your word against theirs.
1256
01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:10,411
Would have been wonderful to get a couple
of innocent people on the record.
1257
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:13,000
Yeah, well nobody a part
of this story's innocent, Jerry.
1258
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:14,969
You know, call Norwin Meneses.
1259
01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,083
He's in Managua.
He's in a prison.
1260
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:18,844
He was happy to speak
to me when I came down...
1261
01:28:18,920 --> 01:28:20,843
He said he never spoke to you.
1262
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:24,044
You kidding me?
1263
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:27,163
I was in Managua for three days,
you know this-
1264
01:28:27,240 --> 01:28:28,810
I know you were in Managua.
1265
01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,082
He said you never got
inside the prison.
1266
01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:32,566
He said he never saw you.
1267
01:28:32,640 --> 01:28:34,404
Well there were five hundred
other people who did.
1268
01:28:34,520 --> 01:28:36,409
Yeah, but can you prove it?
1269
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:41,084
What, you mean, like did I bring home
a t-shirt from the prison gift shop?
1270
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:44,243
Do you have any proof you were
actually inside that prison?
1271
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:46,768
- I bribed my way in.
- For Christ's sake.
1272
01:28:46,803 --> 01:28:49,323
It's a third world country.
What did you expect me to do?
1273
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:50,401
What about all my notes?
1274
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:53,530
Legally, they're just your notes.
All it means is you wrote them.
1275
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:55,090
You could have made them up later.
1276
01:28:55,160 --> 01:28:56,764
- Fuck you.
- Easy Gary.
1277
01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:58,166
Fuck you both.
1278
01:28:58,240 --> 01:28:59,969
You questioning my ethics?
1279
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:03,170
Thinking I'd re-engineer a goddam thing.
1280
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:05,324
- How fucking dare you!
- Calm down.
1281
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:08,688
What about this Swiss banker? Baier?
1282
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:10,564
Yeah, what about him?
1283
01:29:10,640 --> 01:29:12,085
- I can't find him.
- We're going to have to
1284
01:29:12,160 --> 01:29:13,241
look a little harder then.
1285
01:29:13,320 --> 01:29:14,810
No one's heard from him, Gary.
1286
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:17,764
This is crazy. This is nuts.
1287
01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:21,000
The CIA can't take a piss without
getting their dicks caught in their fly
1288
01:29:21,040 --> 01:29:22,724
but they're absolutely fantastic at this.
1289
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:25,326
I mean, look at you guys.
You're looking at me like I'm crazy.
1290
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:26,208
Like I'm lying.
1291
01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:27,964
- This is-
- That's what you're doing!
1292
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:29,081
Nobody's saying that.
1293
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:31,288
- This is not personal. Do not-
- How is this not personal?
1294
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:36,611
Look, we got into this together,
so we're going to get out of it together.
1295
01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:43,448
How are we going to get out of it?
1296
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,810
We are going to print an open letter...
1297
01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:48,285
...saying that some mistakes were made.
1298
01:29:48,400 --> 01:29:49,925
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
1299
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,048
Come on, there's a bigger
picture here, open your eyes.
1300
01:29:52,120 --> 01:29:53,884
My eyes are wide open.
Know what I see?
1301
01:29:53,960 --> 01:29:56,804
I see a bunch of people who are
worried about their reputations.
1302
01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:58,524
Terrified that the Post
or the Times aren't going to
1303
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:01,046
pluck you from the foothills of San Jose...
1304
01:30:01,120 --> 01:30:02,849
...and give you a job on the mountaintop.
1305
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:06,163
You know Jerry, you print that letter,
you can't undo it.
1306
01:30:06,240 --> 01:30:08,681
Not ever.
You become a paper...
1307
01:30:08,826 --> 01:30:13,567
that tells the truth only
when you fucking feel like it.
1308
01:30:14,560 --> 01:30:18,246
Some of the heavyweights of American
journalism have examined Webb's work...
1309
01:30:18,320 --> 01:30:21,449
...and found it reckless, often wrong.
1310
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:24,729
Just this week, Webb was
pulled off the CIA story...
1311
01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:27,280
...after his own executive
editor admitted the articles...
1312
01:30:27,400 --> 01:30:30,643
...oversimplified the origins
of the crack epidemic.
1313
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:31,760
He also wrote,
1314
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:36,442
"I feel that we did not have proof
that top CIA officials knew. "
1315
01:30:36,720 --> 01:30:40,122
Many Americans do seem willing
to believe that their own government...
1316
01:30:40,240 --> 01:30:42,402
...could have been involved
in drug smuggling.
1317
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:45,040
Despite the criticism of
Mr. Webb's work...
1318
01:30:45,120 --> 01:30:48,761
...he is scheduled to receive the
Bay Area Journalist of the Year Award.
1319
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:52,601
Some within the organization are
debating whether he is worthy of this-
1320
01:31:47,600 --> 01:31:50,365
Where the fuck's my bike?
Come on. Come on!
1321
01:31:52,417 --> 01:31:55,525
Hey, excuse me, have you seen a
bike that was here? Motorcycle?
1322
01:32:03,080 --> 01:32:06,527
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
1323
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:12,290
God!
1324
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:18,650
Come on.
1325
01:32:21,080 --> 01:32:22,969
What are you looking at?
1326
01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:27,969
- He's here!
- I see his car!
1327
01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:29,676
Daddy!
1328
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:32,217
- Dad!
- Hey munchkins!
1329
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:35,170
How are you?
How you doing?
1330
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:39,404
Good to see you. How you doing, kiddo?
1331
01:33:39,520 --> 01:33:40,407
What happened to your hand?
1332
01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:43,166
That's just a little scratch.
It's nothing.
1333
01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:44,605
You ever coming home?
1334
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:46,011
Working on it kiddo, we're working on it.
1335
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:47,525
Mom! Dad's here!
1336
01:33:47,600 --> 01:33:49,090
Hi, chicken.
1337
01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:55,603
- Hey mom.
- Look at you.
1338
01:33:55,920 --> 01:33:57,410
Come on, Christine, let's go.
1339
01:34:00,160 --> 01:34:01,160
You look beautiful.
1340
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:04,324
I look beautiful.
1341
01:34:05,320 --> 01:34:06,321
Come in.
1342
01:34:08,600 --> 01:34:09,761
What's this?
1343
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:13,606
It's a long story.
It's nothing. It's boring.
1344
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:15,840
Hi.
1345
01:34:17,560 --> 01:34:19,005
How you been?
1346
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:22,811
Really good, considering.
1347
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:27,203
I've decided to continue
writing on my own...
1348
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:30,249
...without the paper.
1349
01:34:32,640 --> 01:34:33,527
You're resigning?
1350
01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:35,090
Yeah.
1351
01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:38,929
- Well that's good.
- Yeah.
1352
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:43,847
I mean, you know.
Walk away. Fresh start.
1353
01:34:44,760 --> 01:34:46,808
Make room for something new.
1354
01:34:47,240 --> 01:34:48,651
Yeah.
1355
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:53,969
Thanks for coming with me.
It means a lot.
1356
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,003
Tonight's going to be a good night.
1357
01:34:56,280 --> 01:34:57,406
Journalist of the Year
1358
01:34:57,560 --> 01:34:59,085
Yeah. You ready? You look ready.
1359
01:34:59,160 --> 01:35:01,288
- You guys behave.
- Love you guys.
1360
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:03,004
Where's Ian?
1361
01:35:07,760 --> 01:35:09,728
No way.
1362
01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:12,122
No way.
1363
01:35:13,680 --> 01:35:14,886
What?
1364
01:35:16,520 --> 01:35:18,170
What?
1365
01:35:20,840 --> 01:35:21,921
This is great!
1366
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:22,802
Yeah.
1367
01:35:22,920 --> 01:35:25,241
Oh man. Look at her.
1368
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:27,362
You did it! You did it! You did it!
1369
01:35:27,440 --> 01:35:28,965
Thank you.
1370
01:35:30,080 --> 01:35:31,730
I'm so proud of you.
1371
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:34,407
- Thank you.
- I'm super proud of you.
1372
01:35:34,960 --> 01:35:38,328
All right! Yes!
1373
01:35:40,200 --> 01:35:41,247
I'll follow you.
1374
01:35:41,360 --> 01:35:43,249
Yeah, don't drive too fast.
1375
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:46,602
- Well what?
- We'll see.
1376
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:23,606
Unbelievable!
1377
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:27,570
Unbelievable.
1378
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:29,365
Congratulations.
1379
01:36:31,920 --> 01:36:33,604
Congratulations, Gary! Good job!
1380
01:36:33,680 --> 01:36:35,808
Thank you, thank you.
1381
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:38,683
Good to see you, good to see you.
1382
01:37:35,800 --> 01:37:41,648
My first story was about a dog that
should have died, but wouldn't.
1383
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:46,120
I was twenty-two.
1384
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:48,965
It was a stupid little feature,
but I was proud of it.
1385
01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:51,765
I put it in a frame
and hung it on my wall.
1386
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:57,726
And believed I joined a secret
guild of reporters that day.
1387
01:37:58,720 --> 01:38:01,041
If there was ever a believer,
it was me.
1388
01:38:03,240 --> 01:38:07,768
My last story was about a police
horse in Cupertino, California...
1389
01:38:08,880 --> 01:38:11,008
...who died of constipation.
1390
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:15,891
Actually, it's not a joke.
1391
01:38:17,080 --> 01:38:20,209
But to begin with a dog
and end with a pile of horseshit...
1392
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,764
...there's a kind of poetry in there,
somewhere.
1393
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:32,841
But this, this is horseshit.
1394
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:35,361
Me being up here.
1395
01:38:35,800 --> 01:38:38,929
Look, I know I pissed off
a lot of people over the years.
1396
01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:42,570
Many of whom are
in this room right now.
1397
01:38:45,000 --> 01:38:47,924
But I think that's what good
investigative reporting does.
1398
01:38:48,000 --> 01:38:49,604
It ruffles feathers.
1399
01:38:51,160 --> 01:38:52,810
But I was never fired.
1400
01:38:53,040 --> 01:38:55,407
And my editors never
threw me under the bus.
1401
01:38:57,120 --> 01:39:00,090
And that's because I never
wrote anything until now...
1402
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:05,725
...that really mattered to a lot of people.
1403
01:39:06,880 --> 01:39:08,689
Mattered in a scary way.
1404
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:14,649
I'm not going to take it back.
1405
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,961
Make nice to save my job.
1406
01:39:20,600 --> 01:39:22,329
Because I thought my job...
1407
01:39:28,880 --> 01:39:30,291
Sorry.
1408
01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:40,244
I thought my job was
to tell the public the truth.
1409
01:39:40,760 --> 01:39:42,728
The facts, pretty or not.
1410
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:45,167
And let the publishing of those facts...
1411
01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:47,129
...make a difference...
1412
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:50,006
...in how people look at things.
1413
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:52,242
At themselves,
at what they stand for.
1414
01:39:53,680 --> 01:39:55,330
That's shame on me.
1415
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:03,240
This is the only thing
I ever wanted to do.
1416
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:11,603
And for a while...
1417
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:16,402
...a long while, it was an honor.
1418
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:58,723
Before we say goodnight,
there's one more item of business.
1419
01:41:09,280 --> 01:41:10,611
Hey dad.
1420
01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:15,968
Hey bud.
1421
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:18,204
You ok?
1422
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:21,122
I'm not sure.
1423
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:25,809
Well, I'm really proud of you.
1424
01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:36,244
Thanks bud.
1425
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:44,565
Listen.
1426
01:41:46,360 --> 01:41:49,762
I've done a lot of things
that I'm not proud of.
1427
01:41:53,000 --> 01:41:55,162
But I've never stopped loving you.
1428
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:58,324
Not once.
1429
01:42:00,800 --> 01:42:02,404
I know.
1430
01:42:07,600 --> 01:42:09,648
- I need some air.
- Yeah.
1431
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:13,444
Hey dad, don't go too far.
1432
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:46,084
This town hall meeting allows the
South Central community to interact...
1433
01:42:46,160 --> 01:42:48,561
...with the director of
Central intelligence.
1434
01:42:48,640 --> 01:42:52,964
Please join me in welcoming CIA Director,
John Deutch.
1435
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:08,844
How are we supposed to trust...
1436
01:43:08,920 --> 01:43:13,289
...the CIA officials to
investigate themselves?
1437
01:43:13,400 --> 01:43:15,243
Is Gary Webb in the house
is the first thing I want to ask?
1438
01:43:15,320 --> 01:43:16,685
Is Gary Webb in here?
1439
01:43:17,080 --> 01:43:19,321
Gary Webb is the reporter
for the San Jose Mercury News
1440
01:43:19,400 --> 01:43:21,164
who broke the story wide open.
1441
01:43:21,240 --> 01:43:26,326
Allow Gary Webb to have full access to the
Investigator General's full documentation...
1442
01:43:26,400 --> 01:43:30,371
...and comparatively go through
it as the investigation goes on.
1443
01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:00,930
There's no question
in my mind there is a complicity
1444
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:02,889
in the flow of drugs into this country.
1445
01:44:02,960 --> 01:44:06,601
Same pilots, same airstrips,
same airplanes...
1446
01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:11,965
...carrying guns and drugs at the same time.
And people knew it.
1447
01:44:12,080 --> 01:44:15,562
South Central Los Angeles and
every other city in America
1448
01:44:15,640 --> 01:44:18,086
...are owed an explanation.
1449
01:44:21,086 --> 01:44:25,086
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