After plagiarism report, Monica Crowley says she won’t take White House job

The State ( it's the Columbia SC newspaper ) ^ | Today | MAGGIE HABERMAN

[onona]

NEW YORK Monica Crowley, who had been selected just weeks ago to serve in a high-profile post on President-elect Donald Trump’s National Security Council, has decided against taking the position after allegations that she had plagiarized key passages in a recent book.

[jeffersondem]

“Doesn’t she also face an investigation from her university over her thesis? That’s the more serious problem. They will strip her degree if that’s true”

Not necessarily. Dr. King still has his degree and his title. There are any number of things she can say that would make this all go away.

[JayGalt]

Its not that clear cut. Her paper is 490 odd pages and its only a couple of paragraphs, it could have easily been an omitted citation or footnote, but it would muddy her and distract from Trump’s message.

[AndyJackson]

Or in a document with many sources, did she miss one.

Actually it appears that she did cite her sources, but was not anal about it, relying on one footnote in a key place rather than mutlitiple footnotes to the same source in the same or adjacent paragraph

Plitico: Trump Pick Monica Crowley Plagiarized Parts of Her Ph.D. Dissertation

Examples from the article:

• Crowley, p. 359 (Here she cites Gaddis, but uses text from his book without offsetting in quotes) - but she states As Gaddis points out, the Johnson administration decided not to... [and she somewhat paraphrases what Gaddis pointed out so a quote would be, well, not a quote.
• Crowley, p. 24 (She footnotes Oye halfway through but does not put direct text from him in quotes)
• Crowley, p. 177 (Here she uses a quote from Gaddis at the end of a sentence that uses his direct words, without quoting him, in the first half) - but she does have a footnote at the end of the section - presumably to Gaddis.

[indcons]

I defended her strongly initially but the pattern of repeat plagiarism certainly looks deliberate - WSJ article, PhD dissertation, and her book being 3 known examples.

[ConsCA]

“If this is true, why didn’t her thesis instructor catch it?”

Advisor. He or she is an advisor. They can’t possibly be expected to catch all of these issues unless they know where it’s lifted from. He or she is a full professor perhaps with a teaching load, other graduate students, writings/research of his/own.

And you are most concerned with the actual thesis and conclusion.

There is a chance it should have been caught before committee but even then it’s difficult.

Her dissertation is not the first nor will it be the last to have lifted passages from another source without attribution.

[micha]

Just right after she was picked, I read somewhere, (it could have been even here) that she was a member of CFR. Not good...

[lakecumberlandvet]

Can you say “nitpicking?” I like Monica Crowley and would give her the benefit of any doubt. Think her brother-in-law alan colmes will defend her?

[RitaOK]

Yes,..... well, whatever.

I think this was more than one or two inadvertent errors, more like multiple examples of negligence.

I don’t condemn her, by any means. She is talented and articulate as a pundit for our side.

Writing is something else. There are basic rules. We all know them. I was just surprised anything so elementary could get past her. Multiple times.

[truth_seeker]

My guess is that well known people like her, trust others to ghost write much of these types of books.

But they trust too much. And get burned.

[jackibutterfly]

"And yet, we have a Natioanl Holiday honoring a man with verifiable plagiarism...Michael King"

Michael King??? Who's that??

[Capt. Tom]

Is this ACTUAL plagiarism plagiarism?
Or did she just fail to cite a source?

I just finished reading a book that was less than 300 pages long and the author went to extremes - the author credited over 500 sources-granted a few might be repetitious.

I don't think he will ever be accused of plagiarism. -Tom

[fortheDeclaration]

Thanks, yes the correct word is ‘adviser’.

[Impy]

On the one hand, meh, she doesn’t seem like the highest quality person.

On the other hand, I hate to see any appointee withdraw because of the rat media.