C.I.A. Tool Jesse Katz Apologizes: Too Little & Too Late

This here Jesse Katz dude was, many yrs. ago, the neighbor of a friend.

Nine years after investigative reporter Gary Webb committed suicide, Jesse Katz, a former Los Angeles Times reporter who played a leading role in ruining the controversial journalist's career, has publicly apologized — just weeks before shooting begins in Atlanta on Kill the Messenger, a film expected to reinstate Webb's reputation as an award-winning journalist dragged through the mud by disdainful, competing media outlets.

We hope Katz is very, very proud of himself. Maybe he'll commit suicide just as his target/victim did. But probably not; he appears to be a chicken-shit (No comments allowed on Katz's Facebook page. Also: "Your message will go to Jesse's Other folder because you aren't connected to him on Facebook.") who cheerfully does the bidding of whoever signs his check. Can we hear some more about "left-wing" media bias?

"As an L.A. Times reporter, we saw this series in the San Jose Mercury News and kind of wonder[ed] how legit it was and kind of put it under a microscope," Katz explained. "And we did it in a way that most of us who were involved in it, I think, would look back on that and say it was overkill. We had this huge team of people at the L.A. Times and kind of piled on to one lone muckraker up in Northern California."

Katz stated there were "some flaws" in Webb's stories, and the L.A. Times "pointed all those out."

Katz seems to be referring to the fact that Times editor Shelby Coffey assigned a staggering 17 reporters to exploit any error in Webb's reporting, including the most minute. The newspaper's response to "Dark Alliance" was longer than Webb's series. It was replete with quotes from anonymous CIA sources who denied the CIA was connected to contra-backing coke peddlers in the ghettos. Eventually, Webb's unnerved editors in San Jose withdrew their support for his story.

Literal overkill, we'd say.

Our friend was lucky not to have taken Katz's parking spot, played music at high volume or done any of the neighbor things that might have put him on vindictive asshole Katz's bad side. And very fucking convenient for Katz that he is/was on the C.I.A.'s good side. Odd place for an alleged bleeding heart liberal. Or is it?