Britain Admits That Much of Its Report on Iraq Came From Magazines [New York Times: International News]
"In some cases, the critics said, parts of the articles — or of summaries posted on the Internet — were paraphrased in the report. In other cases, they were plagiarized — to the extent that even spelling and punctuation errors in the originals were reproduced. "
This is an interesting story. What strikes me most about this story has nothing to do with public policy or the value of British intelligence. Rather, I am amazed at how easy to both copy information and discover such plagiarism. Also it shows me how little of a monopoly the government has on information. In an information age we have the ability to get our hands on unbelievable amounts of information at our fingertips.
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