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Brian Barger, journalist who helped unravel Iran-contra scandal, dies at 68 Bart Barnes © Family Photo Brian Barger in the mid-1990s. Brian Barger was an investigative journalist who edited and reported on Colombian drug cartels, covert operations of the CIA, international terrorism, money laundering, excessive levels of toxins in sea fish, and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was among the primary reporters covering the Iran-contra arms-for-hostage scandals of the Reagan administration. In a journalism career spanning three decades, he worked for the Associated Press,...

comments In the 1970s, people started using crack, which is cheaper than cocaine and highly addictive. In the 1980s its use exploded across the United States 'Freeway' Ricky Ross built a drug-dealing empire that extended from LA to over 40 cities nationwide during the 1980s, according to a 2013 Esquire profile Federal prosecutors said Ross raked in about $300 million - over $900 million in today's money - in profits from his dealing from 1982 to 1989, per the article Corey Pegues and Samson Styles also were making money selling crack in New York City. Ross, Pegues and Styles are featured in a...