David Corn is an American political journalist and author, and is chief of the Washington bureau for Mother Jones. He has worked as the Washington editor for The Nation and has also appeared regularly on FOX News and National Public Radio. He is also a frequent guest on the video media site BloggingHeads.tv, opposite James Pinkerton or other media personalities. As an author, Corn's work includes both nonfiction and fiction, generally dealing with government and politics. Corn has also frequently written as a book reviewer for a number of publications. On one occasion, he criticized his own organization when Nation Books (a sibling to The Nation) chose to publish the translation of a controversial French book on Osama bin Laden and the September 11 attacks. The book, Forbidden Truth by Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié (former editor-in-chief of Intelligence Online), suggested that the attacks resulted after a breakdown in talks between the Taliban and the United States to run an oil pipeline through Afghanistan. Corn argued that publishing "contrived conspiracy theories" undermined the ability to expose actual governmental misbehavior. (via Wikipedia)