NPR: Senior White House Aide Admits Plagiarism

Senior White House Aide Admits Plagiarism

A senior White House aide, who worked closely with Karl Rove and was President Bush's chief liaison to religious groups, has admitted to plagiarizing a column that he wrote for his hometown newspaper, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel. The Associated Press reports that 20 of the columns Timothy Goeglein wrote for the paper contained plagiarized material, most recently from a Dartmouth Review piece written by Jeffery Hart on education.

The plagiarism was reported by a blogger, Nancy Nall, a former News-Sentinel columnist.

Goeglein agreed that what he did was wrong and resigned his job as deputy director of the Office of Public Liaison.

For his part, Hart seemed quite unperturbed. He said he received Hart apology via e-mail on Thursday.

"I told him I was flattered he'd used it. It doesn't damage him in my estimation at all. I'm glad he spread the word," he told CNN. "If it came in an academic context, it'd have to be dealt with," he said, but he feels this situation is different. "I think stuff flies around on the Web, in journalism and so on."

8:40 PM ET | 02-29-2008 | permalink

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W. Bush and Rove, and the other minions of dis-regarded law, will soon be gone, thank God. Glad to see a Bushie drop off the dead plant, a bit early...

Sent by leo campbell | 9:58 PM ET | 02-29-2008

There is now no denying the casual disregard for integrity in the Bush administration at the highest levels. This is one more fact to be gleaned by future historians who will mark the Bush administration as one of the worst in US history, not just for its incompetence, but for its desire to embrace deceit and other underhanded strategies in pursuit of its moral imperatives...and look where we stand today because of this.

Sent by Drew Abas | 9:28 AM ET | 03-01-2008

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