Posted on 01/12/2017 9:09:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Monica Crowley, President-elect Trump's pick for senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, appears to have plagiarized numerous sections of her Ph.D. thesis, according to investigations by CNN and Politico.
Politico, in a report published Monday, identified more than a dozen instances of plagiarism in Crowley's Columbia University thesis, "Clearer Than Truth: The Evolution of American Policy Toward the People’s Republic of China Under Truman and Nixon."
On Thursday, CNN's KFile followed up on Politico's report, revealing 40 additional instances of plagiarism in Crowley's thesis, which was submitted in 2000. Her dissertation apparently lifted from scholarly works, the Associated Press, and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
Crowley has not responded to requests for comment about the newest investigations into her thesis. She came under fire earlier this week after CNN's KFile revealed she had apparently plagiarized at least 50 sections of her 2012 book, "What The (Bleep) Just Happened?"
This is what it says on page 168 of Crowley's Ph.D. thesis, which can be accessed via the academic database ProQuest:
Mueller found a "rally in support at the beginning of the war and high levels of public support into 1966. By mid-1966, however, support had declined in the wake of such events as infighting among the South Vietnamese and the emergence of vocal criticism of the war during the Fulbright hearings in early 1966. By this time, the public had also come to see that the war would not be over quickly but was instead likely to be a “long, bloody affair.”
The material was copied verbatim from Eric V. Larson's "Casualties and Consensus: The Historical Role of Casualties in Domestic Support for U.S. Military Operations," according to CNN:
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
BY her previous employers like Fox News for instance. Or anyone else with an Axe to grind against her.
What seems odd about this is why, if the plagiarism was so extensive in a Ph. D. thesis, why the great scholars at Columbia who reviewed her work did not catch it. She would have lifted writings related to her thesis by writers who would not have been unknowns in her field of study.
But if this is true, she should probably be dropped from consideration by Trump.
You are absolutely right!
I guess there were seven folks including Obama guilty of this.
Ouch!
https://books.google.com/books/about/Clearer_Than_Truth.html?id=37OfHAAACAAJ
The funny thing is that this is a 493 page thesis but a few paragraphs is a major part.
Monica and Candy present quite different pictures.
First, we need proof it is true.
Even with or without proof, I don't think it is THE reason Trump should drop her from consideration.
No, I am not sure and I haven’t read her thesis.
I read an article on FR a week or so ago, where they showed passages from her book and I followed those links and determined she had done an event and poor job of lifting passages and phrases in a dishonest way. I was stunned and disappointed. Honestly, I haven’t read her thesis, but if at her level of competence and fame, she is still lifting other people’s intellectual property, I wouldn’t be very surprised to learn she did it while a young student.
Next Monday in Communist Massachusetts we are going to observe the holiday of plagiarist, Martin Luther King, Jr. This buddy of Communists and orgy type is the national hero, eclipsing Jefferson and Washington.
They did worse. They just didn't pay their taxes because being liberal they considered themselves exempt from such mundane trivia.
These accusations definitely need to be reviewed by more objective folks and put in context. Is it really so extensive, or is it actually very minor and being blown all out of proportion by enemies of Trump?
Do tell!! What did Cory Booker do that was corruption?
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I was curios myself, so I looked it up.
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/nyts_excellent_booker_startup.php
http://nlpc.org/2013/10/13/newark-mayor-cory-booker-linked-pay-play-scheme/
>> If you look at the article, I think it’s clear that Business Insider added quote marks. They do it for both the original quotes (from other works) and what Crowley put in her dissertation. Notice both sets of passages have quote marks when clearly the original passages would not have had them. Thus, all of the quote marks were added by Business Insider precisely to show that they are particular passages in question. <<
Disagree entirely. Her quote marks are slightly botched, DON’T correspond with the matching text, and do agree with key phrases in such a way as to suggest that they are references to an original source. However, BI would have done far better to include any superscripts which are completely absent from both versions.
I agree the press has precipitated a situation where innocent conduct may be being blown all out of proportion. Hopefully this is a tempest in a teapot and can be laid to rest. However if not it may shortly come to the point where for the good of the Country Dr Crowley needs to remove herself and allow a new nominee. Otherwise she will be a focus to delegitimize the cabinet.
No. It’s either unsourced or an editorial mistake. Are we to assume the quotation marks indicate her OWN work?
That’s a very key point:
When you’re assembling a 493-page thesis, it is EXTREMELY easy to make the sort of errors she seems to be making (that is, failure to distinguish between a simple citation and a citation including a citation).
I am torn with this. Yes it is cheating but I think it is up to the University to get it right BEFORE graduation. The Universities are lazy. Notice it is the media who gets the job done.
At least her thesis could be checked. Obamalamadingdong’s was sealed along with the rest of his past ...
Moochelle’s Princeton thesis is available. It was all about how she suffered at Princeton because everyone there was racissss.
Christopher Hitchens’s reaction to the thesis: “To describe [the thesis] as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language.”
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