Former Harvard Admin Throws Warren Under the Bus

Brietbart ^ | May 27, 2012 | Ezra Dulis

[QT3.14]

Elizabeth Warren can no longer count the Harvard University administrator who listed her as "Native American" among her advocates in the unfolding scandal of her professed minority heritage.

In the reaction to the Boston Globe's controversial article on Harvard's EEOC reports which listed Elizabeth Warren as a Native American, one particular revelation has gone largely unnoticed. Alan Ray, the former administrator who filed diversity reports during Warren's tenure, distances the university from any responsibility for erroneously listing her as a Native American.

[Ellendra]

From what I understand of that test, (and I admit I’m no geneticist,) it uses the mitochondrial RNA to trace maternal ancestry only, or if you’re a guy it can also use the Y chromosome to trace paternal ancestry. What that means is, if the branch of the family you’re trying to trace crossed genders at any point, (such as a maternal grandfather, or a paternal grandmother) it won’t show on the test. The DNA is still there, but it’s mixed together and can’t be sorted out from the “background” as easily, whereas the mitochondrial RNA always comes from the mother, and the Y chromosome always comes from the father.

That’s the hobby-scientist’s understanding of it, anyway. Those with more experience are welcome to correct me on this.

[Jacquerie]

How about falsifying a professorial application to Harvard Law school?

Lying lawyers, when caught anyway, are supposedly in heap big trouble. Judges take a real dim view of less than honest barristers. Why should Spreading Bull get a break? She should be summarily fired from Harvard Law.

When Lizzie will lie to get job at Harvard, why should voters not assume she’ll do the same for a Senate seat?

[Secret Agent Man]

So before Alan Ray gave Warren support, all those years, and now that her heritage claims come under serious scrutiny, he’s taking it back...?

Sounds like an Indian-giver to me.

[LostInBayport]

Lying lawyers, when caught anyway, are supposedly in heap big trouble. Judges take a real dim view of less than honest barristers. Why should Spreading Bull get a break?

Hmm. This is from the Massachusetts Bar Association's Rules of Professional Conduct. I wonder if Pinocchiahontas violated it in her Hahvahd application?

Rule 7.1 Communications Concerning a Lawyer's Services

A lawyer shall not make a false or misleading communication about the lawyer or the lawyer's services. A communication is false or misleading if it contains a material misrepresentation of fact or law, or omits a fact necessary to make the statement considered as a whole not materially misleading.

[Secret Agent Man]

Her other name was “She With Pants on Fire”

[Ray'sBeth]

I’ll bet she has some male relatives too, and they could be tested!

[glyptol]

The point is to get elected. Then you have a pension for the rest of your life.
It’s that simple.
Say whatever it takes. After all you are not paying for it.

[Jacquerie]

Very good. Harvard Law was her ticket to the 1%. I don’t expect we’ll hear of case studies on this.

[mkjessup]

C'mon folks, of COURSE Elizabeth Warren is (laugh-chuckle-snort) a 'native American Indian', haven't
you seen the picture of one of her most famous ancestors? Let's hear it for POW WOW CHOW! lol

[Political Junkie Too]

It's funny that the same school that forced out Larry Summers over remarks about women achieving high status, are now forced to defend a woman who falsified her identity in order to achieve high status.

-PJ

[Ole Okie]

I’ll bet she has some male relatives too, and they could be tested!

She has a male cousin (as I recall) living in western Oklahoma who wrote Pow Wow Chow. Warren submitted a couple of recipes to that work.

[jiggyboy]

Oh man that is beautiful!

[jiggyboy]

I was wondering how soon I'd get to use this...

[Fightin Whitey]

Lots of Reds at Harvard period.

[Old_Grouch]

Yes, Ellendra, that’s my understanding of it also. Basically they could tell the origins of Warren’s mother’s maternal line, going back into pre-surname times.

FTDNA has a test called Family Finder now. It isn’t mitochondrial DNA or Y-Chromosome. I think it can identify relatives within very recent generations. Not sure what that would elucidate for Warren.

[isom35]

being in the %1 means big wampum bucks :)