Reagan White House and the Iran Contra Investigation

The Iran Contra investigation and report plunges the Reagan White House into its darkest hours. The article hadn't made much of a splash because according to the Columbia Journalism Review, Reagan's people carried out a behind-the-scenes campaign to discredit all reporting on the Contras and drugs. A New York Times journalist who as far as we know without any CIA advocacy shuts down a line of questioning on it.