Geithner Called Dinesh D’Souza A ‘Dick’ For Outing Of Dartmouth Gays (VIDEO)

In this Nov. 30, 2012, photo provided by CBS News Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions about averting the "fiscal cliff" on an episode of “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 Geithner said... In this Nov. 30, 2012, photo provided by CBS News Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner answers questions about averting the "fiscal cliff" on an episode of “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 Geithner said Republicans have to stop using fuzzy “political math” and say how much they are willing to raise tax rates on the wealthiest 2 percent of Americans and then specify the spending cuts they want. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher) MORE LESS
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Before Timothy Geithner became treasury secretary he had a run-in with conservative author Dinesh D’Souza in which Geithner asked D’Souza “how it felt to be such a dick.”

That moment was recounted in Geithner’s new memoir, Stress Test. It happened in the 1980s when Geithner and D’Souza were undergraduate students at Dartmouth College. D’Souza, then an editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review, had overseen the newspaper publishing a list of members of Dartmouth College’s Gay Straight Alliance which effectively outted a number of students who hadn’t publicly said they were gay.

According to Geithner in his memoir, as reported by Buzzfeed, he viewed the list as “McCarthy-style.” When Geithner ran into D’Souza at a coffee shop he asked the conservative writer “how it felt to be such a dick.”

D’Souza is currently under federal criminal indictment for alleged violations of campaign finance law. D’Souza’s trial begins May 19, according to Reuters.

Watch Geithner recount the encounter in an interview with Vox.com’s Ezra Klein:

This post was updated.

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