David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist, author, and bureau chief for Mother Jones. She has been Washington's editor for The Nation and appears regularly on FOX News, MSNBC, National Public Radio, and BloggingHeads.tv against James Pinkerton or other media figures.
In February 2013, he was named the winner of the 2012 George Polk Award in journalism in the category of political reporting for his videos and his report on the "47 percent story," Republican denoted Mitt Romney with donors during the 2012 presidential campaign.
As an author, Corn output includes nonfiction and fiction and is generally associated with government and politics. Corn has also been a book reviewer. On one occasion, he criticized his own organization when Nation Books published the translation of a controversial French book about Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks. The Forbidden Truth: US-Taliban Secret Diplomacy of Oil and Bin Laden Failure , by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume DasquiÃÆ'Â ©, shows that the attack was caused by the failure of talks between the Taliban and the United Nations. Countries to run oil pipelines through Afghanistan. Corn argues that publishing "contrived conspiracy theories" undermines the ability to expose true government behavior.
On November 1, 2017, Politico reported that the employer David Corn, Mother Jones, had opened an investigation into allegations that Corn had been involved in inappropriate workplace behavior.
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Early life and education
Corn was raised in a Jewish family in White Plains, New York. He attended Brown University where he majored in history and worked for The Brown Daily Herald. After his junior year, he was an apprentice at The Nation where he accepted his job as an editorial assistant instead of returning to finish his degree. He earned the remaining credits at Columbia University and received a B.A. from Brown University in 1982. He joined Mother Jones in 2007.
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Books
The first book of Jagung is a 1994 biography of the longtime Central Intelligence Agency official, Ted Shackley, who received mixed reviews. The book uses Shackley's ascent through the CIA bureaucracy to illustrate how the Bureau works and follows some Cold War-era covert operations. In the Washington Post , Roger Warner calls it "an impressive research feat"; but, in the New York Times, Joseph Finder claims that Corn has seriously distorted history to blame Shackley for a series of CIA failures.
Corn moved to fiction with contributions to Unusual Suspects (1996), a collection of criminal stories published as a fundraiser to combat world hunger. His first novel, Deep Background, is a conspiracy thriller about the assassination of a president at a White House press conference and subsequent investigations. The reviews praised Mai's mastery of the atmosphere and political character, though they parted on whether this was a virtue or, coming at the end of Clinton's years, a region that was already well known.
With the arrival of George W. Bush, Corn became the President's harsh criticism. The next book, The Lies of George W. Bush, alleges that Bush systematically "pulled the truth" as a political strategy; and he found fault with the media for failing to report this effectively. The book also broke with journalistic practice for allegedly lying explicitly, a word normally avoided as editorial.
In particular, Corn criticized many of the arguments offered to justify the 2003 Iraq Invasion; and he challenged the New York Times columnist William Safire for claiming links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. In Hubris , written with Michael Isikoff from Newsweek , Corn analyzed the Bush administration's encouragement of the invasion.
Corn was announced on The Rachel Maddow Show on 9/12/2017 that he and Michael Isikoff are working on a new book about Trump's campaign and government relations with Russia and Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential campaign, as well as the history of Russian tactics ; which was released on March 13, 2018 and titled Russian Roulette: The Story of the Putin War in America and the Election of Donald Trump .
Plame Infidelity
Corn was personally involved in the initial coverage of the controversy regarding leakage to the media on behalf of CIA officer Valerie Plame. After Robert Novak revealed the identity of Plame in the column of July 14, 2003, Corn, was the first to report, three days later, that Plame had worked secretly; and he increases the likelihood that his identity leak violates the Intelligence Identity Protection Act.
Novak, for his part, denied that Plame had been a secret actor by the time his identity was revealed. He also objected to his negative depictions on Hubris , which he blamed the Corn more than Isikoff. He said about Corn, "Nobody is more responsible for raising this episode." Novak feels that Corn is too close to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband and key figure in criticism of the administrative argument for the invasion.
However, in early 2007, an unofficial summary of Valerie Plame's job history at the CIA was disclosed for the first time in court filings and confirmed that Plame was indeed a covert operation at the time of its name announced by Novak.
Mitt Romney "47 Percent" video and George Polk Award
In announcing the Corn that was awarded the George Polk Award for 2012, the sponsors wrote:
David Corn of Mother Jones will receive the George Polk Award for Political Reporting for a story that shook the country and possibly cost Mitt Romney the presidential election. Through constant excavations and careful negotiations with the source, Corn secured Romney's complete recording of a US $ 50,000-a-plate fundraiser stating that 47 percent of Americans - those who support President Obama - are "victims" who "depend" on the government "and" not paying income taxes. "Corn worked for weeks to get the recording, but high-impact journalism years helped to bring it to the source of the recording. Furthermore, it was an extensive previous report from Corn on Romney that convinced the source to trust him with his release.
The story of David Corn who introduced the secret tape was published on Mother Jones on September 17, 2012.
Publications
- Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA Crusade . New York: Simon & amp; Schuster, 1994.
- In-depth Background . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- George W. Bush's Lies: Mastering Fraud Politics . New York: Crown Publisher, 2003.
- Hubris: The Inside of Spin, Scandal, and Sale of the Iraq War . New York: Crown Publishers, 2006. (Written with Michael Isikoff.)
- Controversy: The In Story of How Obama Is Battling Boehner, Singer, and Tea Party - William Morrow, 2012.
- Russian Roulette: The Story of the Putin War in America and the Election of Donald Trump , 2018. (Written with Michael Isikoff.)
References
External links
- the official website of David Corn
- David Corn on Twitter
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- David Corn's Profile of Crown Publishing Group
- Are We Misled? Debate on Pre-War Intelligence (The Brian Lehrer Episode Show WNYC with Mai as panelist, February 15, 2006)
- A video discussion/debate in which Corn has taken part in Bloggingheads.tv
- David Corn, "WATCH: Full Secrets Video from Private Romney Fundraiser Mitt Romney wants a full recording. Mrs. Jones, September 18, 2012.
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