Monica Crowley

Ben Carson And Monica Crowley Were Accused Of Plagiarism On Same Day

... Related Story. Chuck Schumer Pulls a Judo Move on Mitch Mc Connell. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. Today, The Washington Post reports that Carson did some copying in another text: The prepared remarks he was set to give before a hearing in Congress over his nomination as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Carson was supposed to say that his background had informed him on the "strong connection between housing and health," and cite the problem of lead exposure for young children. That text appeared to be lifted word-for-word from "Where We Live Matters for Our Health," published in 2008 by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Most Popular. Luckily, Carson ended up going off-script at the actual hearing, so the damage was limited to his prepared remarks. ( Not that everything went smoothly.) According to a Trump transition spokesperson, it was an honest mistake: "The original ...

Monica Crowley, Trump’s National Security Pick, Suggested Huma Abedin Had Ties To Islamic Extremists

... done deal. The rumor that Huma Abedin has ties to Islamic extremists has been debunked by the Washinton Post and Snopes, but that hasn’t stopped Crowley from mentioning it over and over again, says CNN. The idea that Huma Abedin was in synch with the Islamic Brotherhood. The buzz actually went as far as suggesting that Huma Abedin was Hillary Clinton’s Islamic Brotherhood handler, and despite these notions being proven as untrue, they were recirculated. RELATED REPORTS BY INQUISITR. Sylvester Stallone Under Consideration For Trump National…. Monica Crowley continued to push this agenda even though some high profile Republicans rebutted it. Former House Speaker John Boehner said the language was “pretty dangerous” and Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said that Abedin is an American patriot. Even Republican Sen. John Mc Cain used strong language on the Senate floor to emphatically state that this was untrue. On Sean Hannity’s show, Crowley said that she didn’t ...

Trump Pick Monica Crowley's 2012 Book 'no Longer For Sale

... President-elect Donald Trump. Donald Trump Mc Cain leans toward voting for Tillerson CIA director on Trump dossier: 'Was I a leaker of this? No.' Green Day drops new anti-Trump music video MORE , penned the book, "What the (Bleep) Just Happened?", five years ago. CNN KFile investigative team earlier this month reported that it found “upwards of 50 examples of plagiarism from numerous sources, including the copying with minor changes of news articles, other columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia” in Crowley's book. The latest development also follows a Politico report on Monday that more than a dozen sections in Crowley's 2000 doctoral dissertation, titled “Clearer Than Truth: Determining and Preserving Grand Strategy: The Evolution of American Policy Toward the People’s Republic of China Under Truman and Nixon,” appear to have been plagiarized. Politico said that while Crowley used footnotes to identify her sources in some cases, she did not place the material in quotation marks. In other cases, according to the report, she copied text ...

Monica Crowley Bows Out Amid Plagiarism Accusations, Says She Will Not Be Joining Trump Administration

... to be the director of strategic communications for the National Security Council. She would have worked with Trump's national security adviser, retired Gen. Michael Flynn. The National Security Council "will miss the opportunity to have Monica Crowley as part of our team. We wish her all the best in her future," Flynn said in a statement. An investigation by CNN's KFile published earlier this month first revealed more than 50 examples in Crowley's 2012 New York Times best-seller that appear to have been lifted verbatim from a variety of columnists, think tanks, and Wikipedia. Crowley has a history of plagiarism allegations dating back several years, according to Slate. The publication points to an editorial feature Crowley wrote for The Wall Street Journal in 1999 that was found to have borne "striking similarities in phraseology" to a 1988 article by Paul Johnson in Commentary ...