"Dark Alliance" and Gary Webb (The media and coverage of the CIA's crack-cocaine trade)

``And then I wrote some stories that made me realize how sadly misplaced my bliss had been. The reason I'd enjoyed such smooth sailing for so long hadn't been, as I'd assumed, because I was careful and diligent and good at my job. It turned out to have nothing to do with it. The truth was that, in all those years, I HADN'T WRITTEN ANYTHING IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO SUPPRESS. Then in 1996, I wrote a series of stories, entitled Dark Alliance, that [exposed the CIA's role in the crack-cocaine trade]...''