Posted on 07/23/2014 4:12:18 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Montana Sen. John Walsh's thesis written to earn a master's degree from the U.S. Army War College contains unattributed passages taken word-for-word from previously published papers.
The Democrat said Wednesday he was on medication and being treated for post-traumatic stress disorder from his service in Iraq when he wrote the paper. He said he also was dealing with the stress of a fellow veteran's recent suicide.
Walsh said he made an unintentional mistake and did not intend to plagiarize.
"I don't want to blame my mistake on PTSD, but I do want to say it may have been a factor," Walsh told The Associated Press. "My head was not in a place very conducive to a classroom and an academic environment."
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Thanks, very helpful information. I remain skeptical of the PTSD claim and I think that the Army must be as well.
I wouldn’t buy that excuse from my students. I hope he gets stripped of the degree.
Typical DIMocRAT. But...don’t get on him too much because at least he didn’t leave anyone to drown in a overturned car he was driving while drunk...at least he didn’t disobey his oath to defend the country against alien invaders...at least he didn’t lie over and over to the American people...at least he didn’t make your children’s and grandchildren’s future a financial hell.
liars lie. that’s what they do. many also go into politics.
He has zero integrity.
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