David Corn

David Corn

David Corn (born February 1959 in New York City ) is an American journalist . He was best known as the editor of the influential magazines The Nation and Mother Jones .

Life and work

Corn is the son of an accountant and a social worker. After attending Brown University , which he graduated from in 1982, he became a full-time journalist. In 1987, Corn was hired as an editor for the political magazine The Nation , which he stayed with until 2007. In October 2007 he was appointed Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine . He has also written for almost all of the leading US newspapers and magazines in the political field, including the New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , Boston Globe and The New Independent .

In addition to and in addition to his journalistic work, Corn has also written several books on contemporary history and political topics, including a biography of the secret service official Shackley. Corn has also published the novel Deep Background , a thriller based on a fictional assassination attempt on a US president .

During the tenure of US President George W. Bush , Corn repeatedly emerged as an outspoken critic of his administration. Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001 , he argued that, in his opinion , the al-Qaeda terrorist network posed a lower threat to the national security of the United States than the conglomerate of the US military, secret services and armaments companies ("America's national security cadre "), who could possibly take advantage of this event to gain disproportionate influence on politics. In his 2003 book The Lies of George W. Bush. Mastering the Politics of Deception , he advocated the thesis that systematic deception, concealment and misleading formed the center of the political line of the Bush administration. In the same year, Corn Bush and his confidants sharply attacked for the US attack on Iraq. In 2006 he presented a comprehensive analysis of what, in his opinion, was the “real” reasons for the Iraq war of 2003 and the precedence of the official reasons for the war in his 2006 book Hubris. The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War . In the course of the "Valerie Plame scandal" about the public exposure of the CIA agent Valerie Plame through targeted leaking through circles of the White House, Corn played a marginal role, since he was the first journalist in his column of July 17, 2003 revealed that Plame, who had been exposed as an agent three days earlier, had also been working undercover. Turning to the Bush administration, he raised the question that exposing Plaimes might have violated the Intelligence Identity Protection Act.

On US television Corn occurred in the past, among other things as a guest host of the CNN telecast Crossfire as well as a frequent commentator in various programs of the three major cable news channels - CNN, Fox News and MSNBC - on. He co-hosted Pat Buchanan's radio show with Pat Buchanan .

literature

• Blond ghost. Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades , New York 1994.
• Deep Background , New York 1999.
• The Lies of George W. Bush. Mastering the Politics of Deception , New York 2003.
• Hubris. The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War , New York 2006. (with Michael Isikoff)
• Showdown. The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party , 2012.

Web links

• David Corn in nndb (English)
• Profile of David Corn on The Nation