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Los Angeles Times Covers Up DEA-Blackwater Connection

Last Thursday, DEA agents raided a California medical marijuana dispensary.  The Los Angeles Times covered the story, and also published several photographs.  In one photograph, either a DEA agent or a Blackwater operative is seen unloading boxes. What is the DEA-Blackwater connection?  Was the depicted man a DEA agent who simply bought a Blackwater t-shirt?  They are available for purchase on eBay, after all. We don't know.  And the LA Times isn't telling, us, either.  Rather than investigate whether Blackwater operatives now work for the DEA, what did the LA Times do?  They deleted the photograph from its website. Fortunately, some quick-thinking bloggers downloaded the photograph before the LA Times could, ala the Ministry of Information, begin re-writing history...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 05, 2008 (boomark / email).