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Indyplus video: Senator Rand Paul under fire for plagiarism

 

Saturday 09 November 2013 18:50 GMT
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Kentucky’s junior senator Rand Paul, widely credited with White House ambitions, has been exposed for plagiarism after using a passage taken from Forbes magazine and lifting from the online encyclopedia Wikipedia for use in a speech, without mentioning of the source.

The senator has fired back, insisting that he never 'intentionally' plagiarised and vowed to be “more precise” in the future. Watch him in the video below:

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