Jerome R. Corsi is an American author, terrorism expert, and conservative activist. Corsi gained national media exposure as co-author of Unfit for Command (along with John O'Neill), a book that topped New York Times Bestseller list. This book, written in cooperation with Swift Vets and POWs for Truth (formerly known as "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth"), strongly questions John Kerry's Vietnam War record as presented by Kerry.
Corsi received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 1972, and has since published several works on political protest and terrorism. His 1972 dissertation was titled Prior Restraint, Prior Punishment, and Political Dissent; a Moral and Legal Evaluation. In 1972, he published an extensive study of the political protest around the 1972 Democrat and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, and the involvement of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (an organization that Kerry was involved with). That work was published at the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence (Brandeis University, 1974). Corsi recently authored Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians (2005) and co-authored Black Gold Stranglehold (2005) with Craig R. Smith.
In August 2004,During Corsi's participation in the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, the left wing watchdog group Media Matters for America discovered Corsi had posted a number of casual comments to various threads on the conservative Free Republic web forum, signing his posts anonymously with "jrlc". Earlier that year (in March, 2004), when responding to an accusation on a Free Republic web forum thread that "George Corsey... [the] terrorism esxpert" (sic) used research by reporter Tom Lipscomb without attribution, Corsi had revealed on that thread that he, "jrlc", was Jerome Corsi.[1] In August, the left wing watchdog group Media Matters for America, using selected quotes from comments posted by "jrlc" from 2001 - 2004, characterized Corsi as anti-Muslim and anti-gay. Media Matters implied that Corsi had "admit[ted]" to being "jrlc" only after being accused, but he had in fact revealed "jrlc"'s identity five months prior.[2] Corsi responded that the selected quotes from web forum threads were failed attempts at humor, but the Media Matters story rapidly spread, marginalizing Corsi, who, from then until the election in November 2004, rarely appeared for media interviews regarding the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth.
In January 2005, Corsi told the Boston Herald that he plans to bid for Kerry's Senate seat in Massachusetts in 2008. He stated that he would run as a Republican or Independent.
Corsi has also co-authored Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders (with Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist), set for publication in August 2006.[3] This book heavily criticizes President George W. Bush for deficiency in enforcing border protection laws and for furthering plans to create a North American Union.
External links
- "Jerry Corsi archive on WorldNetDaily"
- Human Events Online Jerome Corsi on the planned North American Union
- "Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?" Media Matters article on Corsi's web forum posts.