Last week, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke announced that he was taking a job in the Trump administration, serving in the Department of Homeland Security in its Office of Partnership and Engagement.
While the job is seen as a major career promotion for the vocal supporter of President Trump, just days later Sheriff Clarke was accused of plagiarizing large portions of his 2013 master’s thesis on homeland security.
Here are the accusations, from CNN:
In all instances reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Clarke lifts language from sources and credits them with a footnote, but does not indicate with quotation marks that he is taking the words verbatim.
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Sources Clarke plagiarized include a 2002 ACLU report about “The Government’s Demand for New and Unnecessary Powers After September 11,” a 2003 ACLU report critical of the FBI’s records-collection practices, a 2007 ACLU report on “fusion centers,” and a 2011 ACLU report on the need to overhaul secrecy laws.
Other sources Clarke lifted words from include: the 9/11 Commission Report, a 2011 article in the Homeland Security Affairs journal, the Pew Research Center, a 2012 report by the Constitution Project, a 2003 report by the US General Accounting Office, a 2011 Brennan Center report, a 2013 Washington Post article about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Comparative Homeland Security: Global Lessons, a textbook by Nadav Morag, and Safe Cities Project, a research paper published by the Manhattan Institute.
Sheriff Clarke has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and went after the liberal media to defend himself:
Ample evidence of my previous tweet on @CNN political hack @KFILE. Guy is a sleaze bag. I’m on to him folks. https://t.co/D1kV8kg80G
— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) May 20, 2017
Clarke further denied the allegations, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “only someone with a political agenda would say this is plagiarism.”
From The Washington Post:
Fran McLaughlin, Clarke’s public information officer at the sheriff’s department, told the newspaper that CNN has an agenda and a bias. She said the school has a system for doing papers and Clarke followed it.
But on Sunday, the Naval Postgraduate School confirmed that it’s reviewing the allegations. It removed his thesis from its online archive over the weekend, Lt. Cmdr. Clint Phillips, a school spokesman, told the Associated Press.
If the plagiarism allegations against Clarke are indeed true, it could seriously damage his future in the Trump administration. Former Fox News contributor Monica Crowley was forced to step down from a position with the National Security Council after it was revealed she had plagiarized sections of her book.
Despite Clarke’s insistence that the allegations are false, public pressure may consume him and become a distraction for the Trump administration. Hopefully Sheriff Clarke will be able the weather the storm and start his new job with DHS. America needs more tough patriots like him to keep us safe.
Do you believe that the allegations against Sheriff Clarke are true or just a political hit job? Share your thoughts below!
I read once who Obama wrote about……… NOW THAT WAS BAD,
If they insist on going after the Sheriff’s thesis, then I want to go after Barack Obama’s thesis. or how about Hillary’s thesis? Maybe even Bernie’s thesis.
It is ridiculous. He obviously did his research and credited his sources. So he left out some quotation marks. Big deal.
Understanding how they work, just the fact that the MSM is against someone, is sufficient for me to be FOR them!
Ken Simon
The crybabies are at it again; there probably isn’t a phrase, sentence, expression said today that hasn’t been spoken by another person in history: SO are we going to charge every person who speaks with plagiarism?
Plagiarizing has a definite meaning. The definition has been stretched to be able to charge your favorite enemy, The misuse is helpful for those with no scruples, and who have an agenda. You don’t even have to prove the charge. Just making it is usually enough to get what you want. Trusting a Left-Winger is dangerous, unless he or she is known to be trustworthy. Then you still should check it out.
More typical upside down Fake News mongering from defamatory Stalinists doing everything they can to hold back the advance of civilization. “Show me the man, I’ll find his crime”.
Coming from ANY of these lame, lying, biased, dirt water, no news networks — it is more than likely absolute BS. Sheriff Clarke is a great American and patriot and these dirt bags just can’t handle that.
I for one would need more info on CNN’s accusations witch at this point is just fake news as far as I can tell have no credibility in reporting truth from fiction. I think Clarke should just point out what is truth from fiction and let the truth stand.
Sheriff Clarke is a great Patriot. Coming from CNN I can only concur that this is totally fake news.
This is just another attack by liberals to try to undermine the legal presidency of Donald Trump. Of course, it comes from CNN, which has become well known for fake news. Sheriff Clarke, we salute you, stand firm.
This is just another case of media desperation. They have nothing. If this is all they have they are more pathetic than I thought they were.
If he footnoted it, that is not plagiarizim. You sure are desperate for a story.
Another political hack job. The democrats and liberal press cannot accept the idea that Donald Trump was elected president and that there are consequences to elections. All it tries to do is tear down the president, and consequently tear down the Presidency. The next step is the ongoing attempt to tear down our democracy.
Why don’t they find some real news to report instead of making up issues by publishing issues that are of little relevance to everyone but the coasties.
For one thing to many Leftist “reporters” who work for the MSM truly want to bring down the Trump Administration, and will make up any story, using so called anonymous sources, or any other means to denigrate anyone who supports President Trump, or is appointed to a position within the Trump Administration. THIS IS A PURE AND SIMPLE STRAIGHT FORWARD HACK JOB, WELL COME THE DNC POLITICAL MACHINE.
Another political hit job! Sheriff Clarke is a great American Patriot, and we would all like to see him be a part of President Trump’s administration.
We need Sheriff Clarke in Washington, he is a good man. He isn’t a journalist and a lot of people would have trouble writing a paper like that.
Who cares if he plagiarized anything. Is he a journalist, an author or someone who makes a living writing prose? NO, he’s a law enforcement figure so you can take your plagiarism and shove it. In this case it’s the message that counts not who said it.
Do the rags of media really believe they have valid information?? It’s great they continue with their crying wolf. It gives the rest of us something to laugh about.
Just another bunch of hog wash from the liberal bastards!!!!..And Brian what Country are you from? You damn sure are not an American!!!!!
The demon-crap
s can’t stand the truth and don’t want an honest man in Trumps appointments!
So a student writes a thesis, provides footnotes for the source of the data, but forgets or didn’t know to use quotation marks and this is major plagiarism? Not in my book. Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. Sheriff Clarke clearly gave credit for the ideas/work. This is NOT plagiarism. What is it? Another left wing fantasy birthed to try to destroy a Conservative voice. It is happening EVERYWHERE! Lets give credit where credit is due. My best guess is the idea of accusing Sheriff Clarke of plagiarism was born in the 2400 block of Belmont Road in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC. Likely on Valerie Jarrett’s computer!
Seriously? The liberal Soros bots are scrambling like plague ridden vermin on a sinking ship. Just how desperate are these Fake News journalists? Now let’s talk REAL NEWS!
Who assassinated Seth Rich? Hillary Clinton Cabal !!!!
Only Liberal Democrats give the Clinton News Network any credibility at all anyway so who cares? Conservative Republicans are running this show now! #fakenews #CryBabies #Liberal #Losers
Whomever wrote this drivel should never admit that they are employed by a “news origination”, grasping at straws like this. What you need is a year of the training that Sheriff Clarke takes every year. Then you might have a new perspective on what is really important.
If sheriff Clarke says he did not plagiarise it is good enough for me. BTW I don’t understand the statement: “…..public pressure may consume him and become a distraction for the Trump administration.” Why should we allow the Liberals and the MSM to destroy every thing GOP as they wish? We have to find a way to fight back rather than lay down arms even before they act.
Read more: https://thepoliticalinsider.com/sheriff-clarke-plagiarism-masters-thesis/#ixzz4hrJnqqWe
Biden plagarized as a senator, and he became Vice President. So much for plagarism destroying careers
Oh puleeze. Is this the best you got?
Just more Libtards grasping at straws.
Petty bickering by CNN. So what’s new.
At least they were able to get his college thesis. Obama’s was locked away…. ( He did it on Communism..by the way) Just sayin….. The man has earned more credentials than most.. Glad he is on the right side.
Personally I HATE this idiot and oppose his employment or his elevation to power. He is a disgrace and a violent man. THAT BEING SAID, it sounds more as if Clarke did not INTEND plagiarism, (this is nothing but leaving our quotation marks???). I would far rather eliminate this man based on his hatred of America and his violent nature towards anyone that is not in goose-step formation, anyone that dares THINK for themselves. This is petty bickering while there are far more serious problems with this childish brat to address. He should never be in a position of authority, much less the government of the USA but plagiarism is nothing when seen against the totality of this imbecile’s attack on the Constitution.
Brian, it is you who is the sick disgrace. Fortunately our nation does not have too many brainwashed duped fools like yourself.
Brian
I’ve watched Clarke for years as a commentator and i don’t agree with many of his opinions, but i want to say that the way you present yourself, you are the last person who’s judgement i would have much respect for, our world suffers from a lack of complex thinking and mutual human respect, too many people, including leadership obviously (and i don’t have one party or faction in mind over another) just reach for hate and simple-mindedness. As for plagiarism it’s very serious, or can be, considering whatever the context is, which i did not find out enough about in this article. In academic writing, it’s a matter of honest and trustworthiness to put the words of another person being used in a paper in quotes, people should not be quoted verbatim without the quotation marks. If it comes to public attention that someone has done that, or is being accused of it, what Clarke is facing now is what will happen. If you are writing about someone else’s ideas, summarize them in your own words, giving them credit, not just a footnote, but using their name and saying whoever it is said such and such, using your own words to summarize what they said, not their words. If you use their works, then put quotation marks around them, it’s actually a very simple rule to follow, and to not do it leaves ambiguous who’s ideas are being talked about, it’s confusing and misleading. No need for it, it takes a second to put quotes around a quote. Then, whether the other person is quoted or their words are just summariized in the writers’s own language, after that, put your footnote.
For me, it would not be an absolute disqualification or proof of untrustworthiness, if, as may be the case here, that school rules given to students gave permission to use quotation of others’ words without making clear that it’s a quotation. But not enough information is available to the public yet.
The CNN’s pirannas are out. They do not want the swamp drained. I pray Trump totally ignores this. Sherriff Clark is the best man for the job, bar none. The sleezy media is at again. Soul less lemmings have to slime up anybody who gets in the way
This is Just Another Attack From The Liberal Left that is Still Crying Over The Lost of The Election of The Crooked Killary Dynasty
What a joke from the feminist Progressives! Clarke is one of the most outstanding Americans in the country!
Let’s pull a page from the LibTurd playbook — This nothing but a RACIST attack on a fine, upstanding black man!!!!!
There was no ‘intent’ to plagiarize, therefore according to the Rule of Killary all must be forgotten. lol
Talk about grasping for straws is this pseudo author claiming plagiarism by David Clarke. I always thought “plagiarism” was claiming someone else s work as your own. Using footnotes Clarke clearly did not have that intent. Of course you have to consider the original source, Corrupted News Network (CNN) and one can see why it has no merit. Good luck Ssheriff Clarke in your new job at Homeland Security.
I believe any accusation brought against Sheriff David Clark would make no difference as to his ability and duties as deputy of Home Land Security. It is apparent that the hateful liberal faction will go far and wide to find fault with any and all of President Donald J. Trumps choices he has chosen to serve at his pleasure. I think if these so call progressive pests keep on, it will possibly lead to a war of physical violence between Conservative Americans and Communistic
/socialist liberals.
definitely a political hit job by some a—— who has nothing better to do then screw with other people, Clark is one of the good guys and those idiot ignorant people in the media/left are just screwing up this country.
That’s because, THEY are the “bad guys.”
I’m sure Mr.Clark will survive this latest hit from the left,he doesn’t have to keep the lefty’s happy the right has his back so he needs to tell the loony left to go piss up a rope.
“In all instances reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Clarke lifts language from sources and credits them with a footnote, but does not indicate with quotation marks that he is taking the words verbatim.”
YAAAAAAAAAAAWN.
So a guy, who is not a leftist professional student.. attributed the source , marked the location of the quote, but forgot the quote character.
OMG ! !
During my time in College I have written close to 30 papers, all I have ever done was to properly footnote them and then annotate the footnote and where I got the quote from. I have never had a Professor ding me for this. Therefore I can safely assume that I did not commit plagiarism. Since his paper would have been reviewed by the Professor teaching the course for which he wrote his paper and it passed the professors muster where then is the plagiarism, hello libtard I do not think you have the credentials to make that determination, the Course Director or Professor did not you.
Although I am not up to speed on the MLA format, “back in the day” when I was writing research papers (and my thesis), if a quoted piece was more than X lines long- I believe it was three- it was NOT in quotations, but rather indented and then cited in the foot- or endnotes. Since the material in question was ALL ATTRIBUTED, that’s what I think was the situation. In other words, a nothing. In more other words, a petty effort by a politically biased, sorry-a$$ punk who’s trying to do his or her bit in the attempt to bring down the Trump administration. Ain’t gonna happen, snowflake, so why don’t you crawl back under your rock??
If one wants to talk about plagiarism, HOW ABOUT Barack Hussein O– who stole parts of Mass. governor Deval Patrick’s speeches, hmm? Or Joe Biden? Or numerous other self-righteous, hypocritical Democrats?
Fiddle Faddle! Exam in college! Duh!
I agree with all the other comments. To heck with the Liberals. No Thesis writer is ever perfect. He did the footnotes and credited the sources. Liberals claim they do not have to be perfect but Conservatives MUST be perfect in all things. Rubbish.
Gee, too bad you can’t examine Obama’s academic papers that closely.
Who gives a rat’s ass? He didn’t put quotation marks around them? He did ,however give them due credit. CNN is a bunch of pathetic trolls. Going after an African -American patriot. Maybe they should pay as much attention to the 175 person class action suit against them for racial discrimination They’re concerned that he might actually get the job done ! Sheriff, ignore them. Sooner or later they’ll go away.
Clarke further denied the allegations, telling the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “only someone with a political agenda would say this is plagiarism.”
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English teachers don’t usually have political agendas. If you didn’t give attribution and used the information word for word, then it’s plagiarism.
By whose standards, yours? Get a life snowflake
Hey Fred………………If Clark had never posted the credits at the end of his writing, then it would be plagiarism………… having put the credits on the bottom showed he, in no way, was accrediting himself as the original author of his piece, and by doing so has made this another CNN and left agenda sore-assed losers witch hunt for something. It is sad, really, but humorous in a pathetic way as well.
I was an English teacher. If there were errors, it would have been noted on his graded paper and NOT accepted, until it was revised.
Fred is a dummycrat, Fred is a dummycrat, Fred is a dummycrat!!!!!ha,ha,ha
No one with a functioning brain still believes anyone at CNN still retains any objectivity. They proved during the 2016 presidential campaign that they are both the “Clinton News Network” and the “Communist News Network!” I ceased watching CNN back in July 2016, and have ZERO plans to resume watching them because they aren’t getting any better. Every time I try watching them, my TV is threatened with destruction and my teeth get ground down even further! Screw ’em!
Good grief, democrat. You’re going to try and bring down a man because of improper punctuation? How about you dummycrats take your sorry asses back to English 101 in High School and learn how to actually speak without a continuance of “ands” and “uhs” between your mastery of profanities.
Ron, it’s apparent that you don’t have a clue what plagiarism is.
Who in the hell died and made you sheriff?
Fred’s one of those blame everybody else dimm libs….another walking dead aimlessly wandering and drooling with no brain for anything but elitist group thought that somebody owes them something….I’m so sick of these losers!
These evilrat bastards will stop at nothing to bring down this competent, get things done Administration. I just feel Obama’s filthy hands somewhere in the mix.
I support Clarke as much as I support President Trump. Screw the fake news media where they eat bananas.
If comments made by others are footnoted and credited, that’s enough. He forgot to use quotes? If that’s all the left has, they’re as ignorable as usual.
It’s a political hit job. If he listed the original authors of the info he used, in foot notes, to me that isn’t plagerism. He gave credit to where it came from, so what else do they want? To keep him from moving up to a bigger position, one the regards keeping America safe, not just one county. The media needs to grow up!
Uhhh? How can I put this so that these progressive liberal commie snowflakes can easily understand it. Ahhhhhh . . . Who gives a fly’n rats ass? Certainly not the average Joe American that is busy trying to keep his head above water and make sure his family has the Health coverage they need after the debacle of Odummycare has managed to screw everyone, no vaseline, no hug, no kiss. While Prez Trump is doing his job trying to repair a decade of foreign relations with what was some of our strongest allies that his predecessor managed to totally destroy in a mere one or two visits. These lame brained wanna be journalists are worried about a man that has been hired to fill a position that isn’t even one of the top positions in our gov. Had it been for the FBI Dir. position, yea maybe some concern of this nature. But this? Give me a break. Just goes to show U that they are obviously doing anything and everything to attempt to destroy this administration. CNN, Constant Nut Network,. The station that can’t find a real story if it hit them in the face. The station that has the credibility of a man being tortured for information on the last time he peed his pants. The station that believes and practices under the premise that if U can’t find a story with facts, just make em up as U go. Cause it’s listeners are to stupid to get it. The station that just knew Hillary was going to win the WH, that it was hers for the taking. But but BUT wait!
This is kind of true. Even though the paper did not conform to MLA (Modern Linguistics Association) standards and would be considered plagiarism according to the letter of the MLA law, I see no reason to go after him because sources were still acknowledged and documented.
I believed MLA was strict when I was in school. I can’t imagine the hoops I’d have to jump through now.
“Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr., who said this week that he would take a job in the Department of Homeland Security, plagiarized portions of his master’s thesis on homeland security, according to a report on CNN Saturday night.”
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He’s taking a position in the Trump administration. Therefore, it is to be expected that the pathetic left-wing media will instantly attack with whatever they can find or fabricate.
None of this crap surprises me. If Trump nominated Mother Theresa it would only take CNN or MSNBC minutes to drum up some fake ‘facts’ on why she was a worthless human being, unqualified for the position, no matter WHAT it was. Nobody on the right pays a lick of attention to the lefty socialist media. Unfortunately, all the lefty socialists thrive on this stuff. We just have to make sure we outnumber them.
Told the newspaper that CNN has an agenda and a bias.
Ya think lol, my God CNN is horrific . Clark is fantastic he isn’t going anywhere .
CNN should worry about the close to 200 racial discrimination lawsuites that plague it right now , stop attacking & criticizing black folks.
Come on Progressive liberals – missing quotation marks with foot notes does not constitute plagiarism. Give the regular people some slack. Phony charges.
OMG he didn’t use quotation marks even though he referenced in footnotes, seriously is all they got, no mention of Hillary praising whack job Saul Alinsky in her college thesis, of course he’s the left’s hero, an all out communist, so I guess that makes sense.
CNN and the rest of the lying lame stream media is just trying to keep people distracted from talking about the Seth Rich murder that leads directly back to John Podesta and the DNC.
45 minutes after a private investigator released information about the Seth Rich murder, the Washington Post came out with the story that Trump had given secrets to the Russian ambassador while visiting the White House. If you notice any time something sensitive comes up, a new revelation is published by the lying lame stream media has to keep people distracted. With absolutely no proof ever given. It’s just like the Comey note, it is just a distraction. I wish people would start to clue in.
Sheriff Clarke NEEDS to be part of the Trump team. He’s honest and fantastic and says it like it is!! Of course, this is the Fake Media accusing him of anything they can possibly find that just “may” be not right!! As others here have said, I’m behind Sheriff Clarke and President Trump 100%!
He noted them with a footnote. He did what was required.
Just another effort by CNN to hamper Trumps presidency!
President Trump could select the Pope for a position in his administration and these leftist Dumbasscrap liberals would scream that he’s unfit, because of his ‘holier than thou’ attitude….
Just call them racists… it worked for Obama.
No this is a “warlock” hunt, worse than a witch hunt. CNN should be declared officially FAKE NEWS, and Ted Turned indited for treason against the country for propaganda that places our national security in jeopardy.
Hell cant have an HONEST cop to close to the Zionist controlled sanctuary.
Bill, please tell me what that means.
Well…Let’s not forget he forgot to dot the “i” on the 4th page…3rd paragraph…..That’s it… Indict him !!!!!!
WELL I THINK THIS IS BULL BULLLLLL
We hear all of these “Witch Hunt” accusations against any appointees that Trump sees as a selection of different posts in his administration, AND YET…. “what about all that Killery is accused of and no one seems to be pushing for her indictments”!!! Have the Dumb-O-Craps gone blind on hers crimes against America, what about all of her stupid-ass efforts to line her pockets, with mine and your tax dollars? Where has justice put all of her crimes, so they are out of sight. Still waiting to watch her “HANGING”!!!! ~JOHN~ said dat
100% agree
We will support Sheriff Clarke just as we do President Trump. These media jackoffs had better back off. The People have had it!