Harris Accused of Plagiarizing 2007 Congressional Testimony
The Washington Free Beacon also found instances of plagiarism in two reports Harris did as California attorney general.
The Washington Free Beacon discovered instances of plagiarism in VP Kamala Harris’s 2007 congressional testimony supporting the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007.
Then, in 2012, the California attorney general used a fictionalized story about sex trafficking for a report about human trafficking in the state.
Christopher Rufo opened a can of worms when he exposed Harris plagiarized portions of her Smart of Crime.
Congressional Testimony
In 2007, Harris served as San Francisco district attorney at that time.
The bill “would have created a student loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors.”
Harris claimed the bill would attract “top legal talent to offices like hers”:
“There are numerous criminal cases that are particularly difficult because of the dynamics involved,” Harris wrote. “To name just a few—child abuse, elder neglect, domestic violence, identity theft and public corruption. The stakes are simply too high to allow any attorney other than experienced prosecutors to handle these matters.”
By repaying the loans of prosecutors and public defenders, Harris argued, the bill, which had been introduced with bipartisan support, would provide an incentive for lawyers to enter public service, or at least diminish the incentive to leave it.
However, Harris’s testimony mirrored Republican Winnebago County District Attorney Paul Logli, located in Illinois, who testified two months before her.
Harris’s testimony had 1,500 words. Almost 1,200 words came from Logli’s testimony
Logli’s testimony went to the Senate, while Harris testified in front of the House.
Word for word…. pic.twitter.com/zFSCObSyku
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Human Trafficking
In 2012, Harris prepared a report about human trafficking in California.
Harris used a fictionalized story about a sex trafficking victim from Polaris Project:
The story came from Polaris Project, a nonprofit that runs the National Human Trafficking Hotline. By June 2012, the project had posted a series of vignettes on its website that were “representative of the types of calls” the hotline receives and “meant for informational purposes only,” according to an archived webpage. To preserve confidentiality, the project said, key details like “names, locations, and other identifying information” had been changed.
But in November 2012, Harris included one of those vignettes in a report she published on the state of human trafficking in California. Though she said that the story was “courtesy of” the hotline, she copied it verbatim and did not acknowledge that it contained fictionalized material.
Harris also used Wikipedia.
Transnational Gangs
In 2014, Harris also copied sentences from New York State Judge Roger McDonough in a report about transnational gangs.
Plagiarism Scandals
No one takes plagiarism seriously anymore. It ticks me off. The Free Beacon reminded everyone that President Joe Biden dropped out of the 1987 Democratic Party primary due to him plagiarizing “a British politician in his closing statement at a debate.”
Let’s not forget Harris stealing Trump’s ideas for her campaign:
She endured a different sort of plagiarism scandal in August when she promised to eliminate taxes on tips—two months after her rival, Donald Trump, had promised to do the same.
“This was a TRUMP idea,” Trump fumed on Truth Social at the time. “She has no ideas, she can only steal from me.”
Also in August, J.D. Vance proposed boosting the Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $5,000. Five days later, Harris proposed boosting the credit to $6,000 as part of her economic plan. Vance joked that it was only a matter of time before she put on a red tie and promised to make America great again.
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Comments
And we are surprised?
Honestly, this is surprising. Usually, plagiarists will go to some modest effort to disguise the theft. She doesn’t, not even a little.
There is plagiarizing and then there’s plagiarizing. In stealing entire lengthy paragraphs verbatim, this is the latter. She and Biden really are two peas in a pod. They’ll steal anything from anyone at any time for any reason.
btw,,the social security admin would have harris’s alamda ca mcdonalds hours worked..benefits , etc ,just like they do for the rest of us
Always the diversity hire. Always!
DEI is recent. Isn’t sleeping your way to the top a time-honored tradition?
Low IQ people, struggling to get along in an environment above their skill level, will always plagiarize. They don’t think well, so they can’t speak or write fluently or with understanding of the subject matter. Lifting the money quotes and stringing them together is their only way to create any kind of content. That, and paying someone else to write your reports for you.
This is the genesis of the word salad too.
Could KH be prosecuted for perjury or lying to Congress? If her testimony was verbatim plagiarized, then many statements in the testimony are likely knowing falsehoods. I wonder if the normal 7 year statute of limitations applies to deceptions like this.
There should at the very least be a bar complaint if these allegations are true.
Like federal perjury and most other federal crimes, lying to Congress is only a 5-year statute of limitations, unfortunately.
Will Harris blame a staff person, who was the real “author?”
“No one takes plagiarism seriously anymore. It ticks me off.”
They routinely steal our personal wealth and our elections. I’m gonna get bent out of shape because they steal words from each other.