Posted on 10/14/2024 11:39:57 AM PDT by hole_n_one
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris is facing allegations of plagiarism after numerous passages from the Democratic presidential nominee’s 2009 book “Smart on Crime” were discovered to closely resemble — or perfectly match — wording from other sources.
Harris, then San Francisco’s district attorney, wrote the book promoting a reform-minded approach to prosecuting crimes alongside ghostwriter Joan O’C. Hamilton — who told The Post when contacted Monday that she was surprised to learn about the alleged copying.
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo published the allegations Monday and credited an investigation by Austrian “plagiarism hunter” Stefan Weber — with Rufo posting screenshots on X of five examples in which the wording in the book closely resembles other sources.
The five side-by-side passages indicate that Harris may have lifted wording from an Associated Press article from 2008, a Wikipedia article as drafted in 2008, a Bureau of Justice Assistance report from 2000, an Urban Institute report from 2004, and a John Jay College of Criminal Justice press release describing a 2007 award.
Kamala Harris fabricated a source reference, inventing a nonexistent page number. The self-promotional content from Goodwill Industries was copied verbatim without citing the source (Goodwill Industries was her ‘primary partner’ on in [sic] the ‘Back on Track’ program),” Weber wrote.
“In many other instances, even when a source was cited with a footnote, the text was directly copied and pasted without using quotation marks. Quotation marks would have been the most transparent and honest approach, also in non-academic books. Further signs of dishonesty may be evident when sources were copied but specific details were altered, such as replacing a Subway store owner with a sandwich shop clerk (p. 124) or highlighting Southeast Asia in the context of the US gang problem (p. 184).”
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I’m not surprised.
In this day and age, with AI and the ability to do massive and detailed searches into other books and dissertations, anyone has authored something and plagiarized someone without giving proper credit will get found out and exposed.
Interesting, but this will lose Kamala exactly zero votes.
Obviously, I did a poor job of searching
Fraud through and through.
ME, EITHER
Pretty sure she cannot write down a grocery list without copying someone else.
She didn’t plaigarize anything. Her staff did it for her. She could not do research like that.
I take back my self-critique of search skills.
When the main keyword (plagiarism) is misspelled (plagerism) in the title, your search will yield nothing.
This MUST be a Russian conspiracy plot thingy.
Quick, get a list of experts to state so and sign their names in blood.
As the admin reminds us, “search still works”. Except when not. 😊👍
I’d love to see something Kamala wrote…on any subject. Since she’s a lawyer, her thoughts on Justice and the Legal System. All lawyers have thoughts on that sort of thing. Hand her a pen and a piece of paper and say you go girl.
One too many lies for Harris. One too many creeps by Walz. And we get Hellary for the October surprise.
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