Dowd Plagerizes Talking Points Memo

Jillian Bandes | May 18, 2009 12:22 AM

More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when the Bush crowd was looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.

According to TPM, John Marshall wrote this on Thursday:

More and more the timeline is raising the question of why, if the torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we were looking for what was essentially political information to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Dowd's column online currently gives attribution to Marshall, and does not mention the alleged plagiarism.

UPDATE: Dowd's column now features an editor's note at the bottom acknowledging the error.