Dowd:

“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.”

Marshall:

“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.”

TPM Cafe: NY Times’ Maureen Dowd Plagiarizes TPM’s Josh Marshall

(via Jay Rosen)

What does it mean when NYT columnists are plagiarizing blogs?