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Senator Says He Had PTSD When He Wrote Thesis
ABC News ^ | July 23, 2014

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2014
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like when they caught Joe Biden many years ago, always a sorry excuse.


21 posted on 07/23/2014 4:25:31 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A shameless, selfish, and slovenly shyster shamelessly shills his sick, sad, and sorry self into sweet, secure sinecure through sinister scholarly shenanigans.


22 posted on 07/23/2014 4:26:17 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As a general rule, it is usually fairly obvious whether a written submission in college is a purposeful plagiarism or an unintentional omission of a citation. In Walsh’s case, it was clearly purposeful.

The Senator should feel the effects of this, but also the thesis committee of the War College: this was done in 2007, long after Turnitin.com was available, so it would have taken five minutes and a laptop to check the thesis.


23 posted on 07/23/2014 4:27:33 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Theoria

bullsh*t .... don’t this fellow voting on anything requiring judgment.


24 posted on 07/23/2014 4:28:03 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: BradyLS
A shameless, selfish, and slovenly shyster shamelessly shills his sick, sad, and sorry self into sweet, secure sinecure through sinister scholarly shenanigans.

An adorable alliterationist!

25 posted on 07/23/2014 4:28:33 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who wants a senator who has such a handy excuse for his character flaws?


26 posted on 07/23/2014 4:29:48 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We are surrounded by morons...


27 posted on 07/23/2014 4:30:06 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes mandatory ... Thomas Jefferson)
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To: alice_in_bubbaland

You got that right.


28 posted on 07/23/2014 4:30:28 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lots of people have dealt with the suicide of a friend or family member WITHOUT becoming a cheat and liars. He’s in luck - BECAUSE he’s a democrat the MSM will give him a pass.


29 posted on 07/23/2014 4:31:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: BradyLS

Seriously?


30 posted on 07/23/2014 4:31:36 PM PDT by Kackikat (ELECTED officials took an OATH...Time to honor it....be a Patriot.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not much of a man.


31 posted on 07/23/2014 4:32:13 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even Joe Biden didn’t use that lame excuse.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 4:32:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Replaces the dog ate my homework excuse.


33 posted on 07/23/2014 4:32:46 PM PDT by dforest
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To: txrefugee
Who wants a senator who has such a handy excuse for his character flaws?

CoughcoughTeddyKennedycoughcoughcough!

34 posted on 07/23/2014 4:32:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Kackikat

‘S’what it says!


35 posted on 07/23/2014 4:34:04 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

At minimum, the Army War College should rescind the postgraduate degree. If he still has any connection with the Montana Guard, that should be ended.


36 posted on 07/23/2014 4:34:25 PM PDT by twister881
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am so sick of this victim BS from cowards unwilling to admit who they are.

PTSD has been abused.

Real PTSD is traumatic. Real PTSD is when your body, literally reacts to a non existent situation. There are no bombs going off around you, but your body literally reacts as if bombs are going off around you... it is not a momentary lapse in not knowing if you are copying and pasting someone else’s work...

SHAME ON THIS ASS


37 posted on 07/23/2014 4:35:08 PM PDT by eeevil conservative (GIVE ME A PLACE TO STAND AND I WILL MOVE THE thatEARTH....Archimedes)
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To: dforest

“Replaces the dog ate my homework excuse.”
Yep, now he’s plagiarizing the IRS.


38 posted on 07/23/2014 4:36:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: KitJ

Thanks!


39 posted on 07/23/2014 4:37:00 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

Active Duty/Retiree ping.


40 posted on 07/23/2014 4:37:44 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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