Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master's thesis on homeland security

[brooklynite]

Source: CNN

Controversial Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who this week announced he will be joining Donald Trump's administration as assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, plagiarized sections of his 2013 master's thesis on US security, a CNN KFile review has found.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/05/politics/sheriff-clarke-plagiarism/

[Julian Englis]

1. Clarke ought to fit in with all the other crooks and liars associated with Trump.

n/t

[kwassa]

2. Just in time for The Daily Trump Scandal.

The hits just keep on coming.

[Ligyron]

3. Perfect!

He'll fit right in with the gang.

[nycbos]

4. I am SHOCKED SHOCKED to find gambling going on here.

[Lucky Luciano]

5. Sounds like he will fit in nicely with this cabal. nt

[47of74]

6. Cue Clark complaining in 5...4....3...2.......

That he's being persecuted because of his love of the giant orange man baby or that rules are for other people. Again because of that fucking orange man baby.

[Plucketeer]

7. NO ONE....

with a smidgen of ethics is gonna hear Trump's call to duty. And with Clarke, it's a call to "doody" that beckons!

[caballojm]

8. They really are a basket of deplorables.

Although I think it's more of a garbage truck than a basket.

[hrmjustin]

9. he should fit right in to this criminal administration.

[dawn5651]

10. are there any honest republicans

how did his thesis get by the professor...don't they bother checking to see if you stole someone elses work...because that is what plagiarism is..

[TNNurse]

11. Sounds like Trump's kind of guy.

[ailsagirl]

12. Oh, wonderful

[cubbies01]

13. Looks like another

Witch Hunt😂

[dalton99a]

14. Trump: "This is a great guy. He's extremely qualified."

[Igel]

15. Some examples are probably plagiarism.

Others are just padding for the report, on the assumption nobody's going to take the time to look at the data or methodology when there's a juicy conclusion to be gobbled down.

A quick check shows that some of the examples are fairly common text. Boilerplate. In a few cases I've read the "quotes" here. Hard to avoid some things. I mean, I know I've read "some of the examples are fairly common text" before I wrote it, but I'd be hard-put to cite it. Same for "padding for the report". Serious "investigation" would rule those out as inevitable.

In other cases, "a few words" results in absurdities.

And in others, it's obvious an attempt was made to specifically avoid a quote. Even if it meant "suspected terror suspects" was in Clarke's text instead of "suspected terrorists". This is the kind of change that a lot of teachers along the way say to make to avoid making the text look like a quote pastiche. I just graded a bunch of high school projects where students following instruction--sometimes students in college-level classes--did exactly this. You break up quotes, interpolate a few words, drop out a few, re-arrange the text and you've met the requirements of not having a word-for-word quote.

I await the verdict.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. This BizzaroWorld scenario just keeps getting

more bizarre.

[NCjack]

17. Time for the university to revoke his degree. nt

[Crowman2009]

18. Well he could always get a masters degree from Trump Univ. or Glenn Beck's Univ. of I Don't Remember

[Sunlei]

19. This is the sheriff who allowed a man to die of thirst in his jail?

[obamanut2012]

21. and a newborn baby to die

[LiberalFighter]

20. How long was his time at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California?

How was he able to do that and his job as Sheriff?

[Sunlei]

22. https://www.mastersthesiswriting.com/ and let the guards at work skip feeding & watering prisoners.

https://www.mastersthesiswriting.com/