CIA, Contras and Cocaine

Did the CIA hire engage known drug runners in its efforts to support the CIA-trained and backed Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s? And was this engagement an exception, or part of an ongoing history of CIA involvement in drug-running?
     The answers are yes and yes. But don't take my word for it. Read the newly declassified (and until recently closely held) Part II of the CIA Inspector General (IG) Report on what the CIA knew about the drug runners in its midst. Or better yet, read Robert Parry's commentary in a recent issue of The Consortium.
     For the most well-documented accounting ever to be published by the mainstream press, read

For a comedic view of the mainstream media's participation in the cover-up of the truth, read The Emperor's New Clothes, or Gary Webb was Right.

The story of the CIA-Cocaine-Contra connection was originally broken by Brian Barger and

Further, Hitz discovered that CIA officials, including Dupart from the Central American Task Force, fed leads to congressional Republican staff to discredit Kerry's investigation. Dupart, for instance, told GOP aide Richard Messick that the FBI had "extensive information on people who had been interviewed by Kerry's staff." [Graf 1102]

Let me condense it for you further:

...CIA officials...fed leads to congressional Republican staff to discredit Kerry's investigation.

Just who is running the country?