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Senator John Walsh (D-Montana) Plagiarized Master's Thesis
Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:41 pm
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Walsh is well behind in the polls already. Now, he certainly won't be catching up.
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An examination of the final paper required for Mr. Walsh’s master’s degree from the United States Army War College indicates the senator appropriated at least a quarter of his thesis on American Middle East policy from other authors’ works, with no attribution.
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Most strikingly, the six recommendations Mr. Walsh laid out at the conclusion of his 14-page paper, titled “The Case for Democracy as a Long Term National Strategy,” are taken nearly word-for-word without attribution from a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace document on the same topic.
Walsh is well behind in the polls already. Now, he certainly won't be catching up.
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Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:43 pm to Patrick_Bateman
What is it with leftists and academic fraud?
Seriously.
Seriously.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:44 pm to Patrick_Bateman
How do you get away with plagiarism at Army War College?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:51 pm to Patrick_Bateman
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Walsh is well behind in the polls already. Now, he certainly won't be catching up.
Screwed in Montana, but with the number of tax cheats Obama nominated for Treasury positions he could made a good Secretary of Education.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 7:59 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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How do you get away with plagiarism at Army War College?
Apparently you don't.
Seriously, I made sure to cite everything in my strategic research project (they are referring to it as a thesis). I was scared to death about being accused of plagiarism. If you are found to have plagiarized you will have your name removed from your class plaque.
May seem like it is not a big deal, but it is. Huge.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:00 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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How do you get away with plagiarism at Army War College?
This. Although the older I get, the less things surprise me. I'm getting pretty cynical.
Also, is anyone shocked that a masters thesis was only 14 pages? That seems more like a book report to me.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:00 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
HA! He was there the same year those two knuckle head Colonels tried to cheat on that paternity test!
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:00 pm to Patrick_Bateman
He's up for reelection this year.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:03 pm to Wolfhound45
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Apparently you don't.
Well, it was written in 2007, and it does not appear that the War College was the entity that discovered the plagiarism.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:03 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
quote:IRS runs their IT Dept.???
How do you get away with plagiarism at Army War College?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:07 pm to Patrick_Bateman
I wouldn't vote for him even if that piece of shite wasn't plagiarized. What a bunch of thrown-together neocon hackery 
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:07 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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How do you get away with plagiarism at Army War College?
How the hell is a Master's thesis only 14 pages?
As a former officer, that requirement from the War College kind of embarrasses me.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:07 pm to Mo Jeaux
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Well, it was written in 2007...
He graduated three years ahead of me. You are warned during your preparation and review that your strategic research project will be subject to review by software to determine if there has been any plagiarism. If you have any sense you don't even try it. Unfortunately, he gave it a shot.
His name is going to be pulled as a class graduate. No getting around it.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:10 pm to Patrick_Bateman
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:11 pm to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:12 pm to Patrick_Bateman
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:12 pm to Wolfhound45
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May seem like it is not a big deal, but it is. Huge.
Absolutely no excuse this day and age--be it negligence or dishonesty. He deserves whatever derision he suffers. Arguably the most pro-American post unification German Minister of Defense (and an aristocrat with a great anti-Nazi bloodline to boot) lost his seat over the same thing a few years ago.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:13 pm to OleWar
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cheat on that paternity test!
While we're airing out the dirty laundry, care to expand on this?
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:15 pm to Wolfhound45
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23 pages.
Slightly better, I guess.
Posted on 7/23/14 at 8:17 pm to Wolfhound45
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He now says he was suffering from the effects of PTSD when he wrote it.
Poor thing. He should bow out gracefully and seek the help he needs to better himself.
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