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WASHINGTON — Anita Hill, whose sexual-harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas nearly derailed his Supreme Court nomination, said Tuesday she stands by her account of his behavior despite allegations in his new book.
“I stand by my testimony” at a 1991 hearing, Hill wrote in an op-ed piece in The New York Times. “I will not stand by silently and allow him, in his anger, to reinvent me.”
In his book, Thomas says Hill was used by political opponents. Interest groups chose “the age-old blunt instrument of accusing a black man of sexual misconduct,” he writes.
Thomas’ approach, she said, “is really so typical of people accused of wrongdoing. They trash their accusers.”
By The Associated Press
