11. Michael Ruppert Confronts CIA Director John Deutch

Watch the full video: 1996 CIA Director town hall meeting regarding allegations that the CIA was working with the cocaine industry to bankroll Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In 1996, journalist Gary Webb unloaded a threepart series for The San Jose MercuryNews alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency helped spark Americas crack cocaine epidemic by enabling drug traffickers tied to the Nicaraguan Contras to ship into the country and use the proceeds to fund their insurgency against the Sandinista government. Published on the MercuryNews website, thereby making it available to all, the series, Dark Alliance, became one of the first viral news pieces of the Internet era.