I remember, in the late 1990s hearing a news report about the CIA pumping cocaine into American cities. Then we got Bill Clinton shoving his Cuban Cigar into a Polish-American woman and never heard of it again.

Ajay and I rented this movie and it ripped the heart out of her pretty chest. She told me, when the movie was over, “You know, I get upset sometimes when you criticize the government. And I do want to believe that I live in a just society. But when you see this—two shots in the head and he committed suicide, and the government signs off on that—than I feel like a dunce for believing the news. Then I think about what they are going to do to you—when they are coming for you for what you write.”

The actor, whose name I do not know—and I’m not a film critic so don’t expect me to look it up—is an excellent actor.

The best part in this movie is when Gary Webb, the reporter, interviews a black LA drug dealer, who says, about the CIA drug king pin and himself, “I was just the elf, he was Santa Clause.” This actor played Omar Little in The Wire, and I’m glad he got some work here.

Kill The Messanger did not have all of the drug deals and investigation drama that we would expect. What it is about is the entire U.S. Press Corp, TV and print, destroying the life of one reporter at the behest of the U.S. Government. Please watch this movie, so that you will know when investigative reporting ended in the only nation on earth that put it in place as a check on government.

For reference check out The Priesthood Of Money. The hearing in LA that features the head honcho from the CIA in the film, is also in this documentary.