Almost 40 passages and thousands of words of conservative commentator Monica Crowley’s 2000 Ph.D. dissertation were plagiarized, CNN reported Thursday morning.
Crowley, who will take a role as the senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council under President-elect Trump, has been under the microscope this week for plagiarizing other people’s work to include in her book and her dissertation.
CNN reported Crowley plagiarized passages from scholarly texts, the Associated Press and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Crowley attended Columbia University and the university declined to comment on the dissertation.
“We have no comment on Monica Crowley’s dissertation, which was submitted in 2000 and is publicly available,” the university said in a statement to CNN. “The University’s process for addressing concerns raised about University research preserves the confidentiality of any review, and even the fact of a review’s existence is confidential while it is underway. Columbia is committed to upholding the very highest standards of integrity and credibility in academic research.”
CNN broke the story that Crowley plagiarized many passages in her 2012 book What The (Bleep) Just Happened. HarperCollins, the publisher of the book, said Tuesday it won’t sell the book until Crowley can source and revise the material.
Neither Crowley nor the Trump transition team has commented on the reports to CNN.
