During promotions for her book Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton boasted of hand writing pages and pages of her manuscript in her cramped Chappaqua farmhouse attic.
But as Alana Goodman and Matthew Walther reported, Clinton plagiarized herself as well as Bill Clinton and Adm. James Stavridis.
Hidden away in her attic, Clinton said she "toiled away" for months painstakingly hand writing "barrels and barrels" of drafts—seemingly impossible, since large sections of her book were lifted from speeches she had given.
Clinton also bemoaned dragging her manuscript around with her everywhere she went, including vacation.
During an interview with CSPAN’s Book TV, Clinton highlighted how hard it was to write the book because of her own procrastination as well as condensing and reliving things that had happened during her time as Secretary of State.
"I had a great team of researchers, advisers, and people who would take my scribbly handwriting and translate it and come back with suggestions," Clinton said.
Carolyn Reidy, who was one of Clinton’s editors, praised Clinton for her constant efforts to revise, but Reidy seemed to miss the constant lifting of other works highlighted by the Washington Free Beacon.
Hard Choices does not contain footnotes or references to any of the sections that were plagiarized, so even the self-plagiarized sections raise ethical questions.
The Clinton campaign did not return the Free Beacon’s request for comment.