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"times" doesn't usually include the name of the victim. and so i think in this case the editors felt like maybe it was probably better to remove it. in removing her name, they removed the other reference to the fact that she didn't remember it. >> in your draft for the "times," you used the exact words in the book, that i deliberately left off the name because that passage begins with the name. >> yes. >> and so in their removal of the name, they ended up removing the whole -- >> the whole sentence. it was an editing -- done in haste in the editing process as you know for closing the section. ...

Blazesy ford during the incident. that was actually far more of a news peg in the book than this other poorly sourced -- anecdote. >> exactly. and the fbi clearly it did not do a thorough investigation. >> so more details on the fallout over the essay in the "new york times" published that ignited this entire situation. last night the authors of the piece told msnbc's lawrence o'donnell that the key element of the book's account that, quote, the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say she does not recall the episode which was added more than a day later to the original "new y...

Special interest time with her, why the incident hit so hard for her. she was feeling like a fish out of water that first year at yale to begin with for any number of reasons. socioeconomic, cultural and so on. and this incident was deeply traumatizing for her. that was the focus of the piece. we included the additional detail of this other unreported allegation because it seemed germane to the type of thing that we were investigating. >> in your draft, did it include those words that have since been added to the article? >> it did. >> it did. >> it did. so somewhere in the editing process, th...

>> well, first of all, lawrence, there was zero intent to mislead anybody about the details of the incident. that excerpt we ran in the "times" was an adaptation of what's in our book that you just described so aptly. it really focuses on the experience of deborah ramirez as we understand it, after robin special interest time with her, why the incident hit so hard for her. she was feeling like a fish out of water that first year of veil to begin with for any number of reasons. socioeconomic, cultural and so on. and this incident was deeply traumatizing for her. that was the focus of the piece....

Alleged victim and the alleged victim says this never happened. in the "new york times," that interview last night is even more daximning for somebody in e "new york times" for somebody who decided to take out the part that said oh, wait, a man said it happened but the woman who's the alleged victim said, no, i -- told her friends i don't remember that ever happening. >> well, you know, i mean, i won't pile on "the new york times" editing process except to say that they need to find out why that happened and how that happened and that issue shouldn't have been made and they tried to correct it...