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If you're going to make a list like this, at least make sure all of them are right. "The Crack Epidemic" is not one conspiracy theorists are right about. As the

If you're going to make a list like this, at least make sure all of them are right. "The Crack Epidemic" is not one conspiracy theorists are right about. As the common conspiracy trope is that the government invented crack and gave it to black people to destroy their neighborhoods. Iraq WMD's is also wrong and case of what happens when conspiracy theorists get a hold of the US government. Most countries and the US house did not accept the WMD conspiracy that immediately turned out to be untrue as most conspiracies do. Now the conspiracy theorists are that it was all done for oil, which is also a blatantly dumb characterization.

defrost 3y ago
As conspiracy theories go "The Crack Epidemic" is at least ballpark - the details are hazy but there's something there. The OIG (Office of Inspector General) report into "THE CIA-CONTRA-CRACK COCAINE CONTROVERSY" (December, 1997) https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/9712/index.htm https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/9... didn't touch the bedrock involvement of the CIA-Contra support underpinning the magnitude increase and near literal flooding of cocaine powder into the USofA (because that connection had already been "extensively reviewed in previous inquiries by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations; the State Department; the DEA; and the CIA.") That, however, is enough on it's own to make the case that the CIA was (indirectly) responsible - had the volume not increased so substantially and had the price not dropped so dramatically there would never had been any driver to make a more addictive by product so readily available. The rest of the OIG report is volumous but weak - there is no evidence because various targets "fell between the cracks", there was no task force because the agent who suggested one had a case of "her supervisors did not take her request seriously because she was a female agent." and not "because there was pressure to cover up". These are not great reasons that the evidence is lacking because deeper investigations were not held, and they don't exclude unseen pressure to not look further.

defrost 3y ago

As conspiracy theories go "The Crack Epidemic" is at least ballpark - the details are hazy but there's something there. The OIG (Office of Inspector General) report into "THE CIA-CONTRA-CRACK COCAINE CONTROVERSY" (December, 1997) https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/9712/index.htm https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/special/9... didn't touch the bedrock involvement of the CIA-Contra support underpinning the magnitude increase and near literal flooding of cocaine powder into the USofA (because that connection had already been "extensively reviewed in previous inquiries by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on Narcotics, Terrorism and International Operations; the State Department; the DEA; and the CIA.") That, however, is enough on it's own to make the case that the CIA was (indirectly) responsible - had the volume not increased so substantially and had the price not dropped so dramatically there would never had been any driver to make a more addictive by product so readily available. The rest of the OIG report is volumous but weak - there is no evidence because various targets "fell between the cracks", there was no task force because the agent who suggested one had a case of "her supervisors did not take her request seriously because she was a female agent." and not "because there was pressure to cover up". These are not great reasons that the evidence is lacking because deeper investigations were not held, and they don't exclude unseen pressure to not look further.