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I believe they were only uncovered (re-uncovered?, but definitely largely publicized) after those who were dissatisfied with her congressional testimony looked

• submeta 3y ago
  This! It was all about her testimony. See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848351 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38848351
• kcplate 3y ago
  Doesn’t matter if some political enemies discovered it, she still owns the mess she put herself in over all of this. And let’s face it, it’s not like the political enemies she made were all on one side. There was bi-partisan outrage over the hair splitting of genocide answer she gave to congress. Also bear in mind that Harvard tried to stick by her and even excused her congressional testimony and after investigating the initial plagerism instances. At a certain point the plagiarism instances just became way to numerous (50?) to reasonably explain them away by carelessness.
• camillomiller 3y ago
  I honestly lean more towards her general beliefs politically (except on the Israel-Palestine issue) but I don't care what was the reason behind it. She still committed plagiarism, and someone who did it in such a provenly egregious way is not fit to run a place like Harvard, period.
• myth_drannon 3y ago
  My understanding plagiarism issue where uncovered before, Harvard even hired a law firm to threaten the journalists.