Trump aide Crowley plagiarized extensively for dissertation: Report

Published January 12, 2017 3:27pm ET



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.

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