In September 2012, Wente was found to have committed plagiarism by Carol Wainio, a blogger and artist who accused Wente of lifting quotes and rewording passages from published sources without credit. Wainio documents on her blog, Media Culpa, a series of columns and articles published from 2009 to 2012, which plagiarize sources including the "Ottawa Citizen", the "New York Times" and "Foreign Affairs". On 21 September 2012, the "Globe and Mail"s public editor addressed the allegations, conceding that "there appears to be some truth to the accusations but not on every charge".