Is Maureen Dowd a Thief and a Liar? ... Plagiarism, Again, at the NY Times

From the HuffPo:
Maureen Dowd Admits Inadvertently Lifting Line From TPM's Josh Marshall

Okay so MoDo says:

josh is right. I didn't read his blog last week, and didn't have any idea he had made that point until you informed me just now.

i was talking to a friend of mine Friday about what I was writing who suggested I make this point, expressing it in a cogent -- and I assumed spontaneous -- way and I wanted to weave the idea into my column.

Talking? Weave?

Here's his line:

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.

Here's hers:

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.

She didn't read his column? She heard it from a friend? Yeah... mkay...