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:
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CNN and Politico are Fake News. Therefore, I assume that these allegations are flat out lies.
If they’re proven true, she needs to go. If they’re demonstrably false, CNN needs to be decertified from the White House press pool.
If only these ‘news’ sources would put their energy toward rooting out the corruption in the Obama Admin, they might have a leg to stand on. We will have 4 years of this......I sure hope their advertisers wake up and stop supporting ‘news’ sources that are a visibly more interested in bringing down one political side than in reporting NEWS.
as long as she cited it, it's legit...
Drip, drip, drip. Plagiarism is a big deal even if others have gotten away with it. There should be zero tolerance for it and making excuses for Crowley is wrong. I have yet to see her directly address this. President-elect Trump hasn’t said much. She should resign now before this blows up further.
Yet Biden and Warren are acceptable?
When Business Insider applies the same standard to Martin Luther King, I’ll perk up my ears.
“IT’S NOT PLAGIARISM IF YOU”RE QUOTING!!!!”
It’s not quoting if you’re not citing the source. It’s just plagiarism.
RE: Dishonesty doesn’t become her. I remain disappointed. What a shame.
If I quote someone, is it plagiarism? Plagiarism applies only if the quote was not attributed to the original writer.
Hey, if Martin Luther King and Ted Kennedy can do it, why can’t Republicans?
It like my husband keeps reminding me that hillary has not been convicted or even brought up on any charges.
Yep.
The dems in the office are going to some protest in NYC this weekend. They really hate Trump.
Still floors me that they wanted what Obama was doing to us. They think that is good. Wow.
Like the muzzies we cannot share this country with them.
Martin Luther King was charismatic and his cause was just but over 50% of his PhD thesis was plagiarized.
His first book, Stride Towards Freedom, was also largely plagiarized.
also he never took a single step to change his name to Martin Luther King.
His name was always Mike King.
AND Barack Hussein Obama
Who took stuff from Denzel Washington and Deval Patrick (another Axelrod tool).
Wasn’t it Biden that had a major plagiarism problem?
I missed any Leftist angst over that.
“So if I tell the story of Washington and the cherry tree, I’m plagerizing??”
If you’re lifting entire passages from Mason Locke Weems’s book on Washington, yes, you’re plagiarizing. This isn’t hard.
Crowley plagiarized and apparently has done it numerous times. I would still give her the job, but I would warn her about screwing up even once.
CNN eetc are about as reliable as an umbrella in a tornado. My guess is these slime merchants found passages in her thesis from uncited sources and are making a big deal about it. In fact, most narratives contain passages which include information garnered from the writer’s exposure to colleagues and documents they have read.
Politico is as biased as their phony polls and at this point, I just assume any garbage dumped by a hostile source on Trump or his people is just that - garbage. And so should anyone else.
Their credibility has been TOTALLY destroyed. They are FRAUDS.
BY THE WAY, anybody see Michelle’s or Obama’s theses???? HUH???
Gonna have to buy the book to be sure - couldn’t find it via a few quick searches.
Did she actually plagiarize, or is this one of those pi$$ing contests over footnotes vs endnotes?
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