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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And how many of Obama’s picks were similarly vetted so scrupulously?
Where’s hilLIAR’s and Obambi’s dissertations/articles? Transcripts?
Agree. If this were a Dem, it wouldn’t matter. But our side can do better. Surely there are other qualified candidates.
Yawn.
Business Insider pushing Dem talking points about this nothing-burger.
Brilliant
The batteries must be dead in my Give-a-Shyt meter.
IT’S NOT PLAGIARISM IF YOU”RE QUOTING!!!!
Geez Louise!
So if I tell the story of Washington and the cherry tree, I’m plagerizing??
Yawn
If true, that’s an ender.
I guess the problem is not giving credit to the people you researched. -Tom
Will file under both hugh AND series.
If Monica cited everything in footnotes, no worries. But if she “forgot” to do that, she needs to step aside.
I really like Monica. I’d hate to see her be embarrassed here. And yes, liberals have done much worse. But if the story is true, she needs to go.
Of course, this all assumes that the story is true in the first place. Time will tell.
I’ve always liked her but this is a serious charge for a writer. She’s done.
We had not seen Mochelle’s thesis
I’m confused. The example in the excerpt has quotes around it. So she included a quote in her paper. What is wrong with that
lol
Dishonesty doesn’t become her. I remain disappointed. What a shame.
when i saw the name Monica Crowley, i immediately pictured the moderator of the Obama Romney debate... the gal who erroneously fact-checked Romney regarding Obama’s language after the Benghazi attack... that is Candy Crowley...
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