It seems awfully fishy that the wapo found out about the plagiarism so soon after hiring him. Is it possible they knew ahead of time? Nah, they wouldn't go to these lengths just to embarass Republicans, would they?
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Yeah, there's a lot of questions still: If it was so easy to find out about, why not sooner, like before the hire decision? And, also -- why did this guy take the position and put himself in that spotlight if he did engage in plagerism? This is all kind of strange...