Joe Lauria is editor-in-chief of_Consortium News_and a former U.N. correspondent for_T__he Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe_, and other newspapers, including_The Montreal Gazette,_the London_Daily Mail_and_The Star_of Johannesburg. He was an investigative reporter for the_Sunday Times_of London, a financial reporter for_Bloomberg News_and began his professional work as a 19-year old stringer for_The New York Times.He is the author of two books,A Political Odyssey, with Sen. Mike Gravel, foreword by Daniel Ellsberg; and_How I Lost By Hillary Clinton, foreword by Julian Assange.