In her dissertation on America's China policy under Truman and Nixon, entitled "Clearer Than Truth," Crowley, whose Ph.D. She is also a New York Times bestselling author and a columnist and online opinion editor of The Washington Times." in international relations from Columbia University, is a foreign affairs and political analyst for the Fox News Channel.
Crowley, a renowned scholar who holds a Ph.D. The Trump transition team's statement announcing Crowley's selection hailed her reputation as a scholar. Trump has tapped Crowley, a syndicated radio host, columnist, author, and longtime Fox News contributor to be his senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council. Columbia is committed to upholding the very highest standards of integrity and credibility in academic research."
"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. "We have no comment on Monica Crowley's dissertation, which was submitted in 2000 and is publicly available," the statement said. Neither Crowley, nor the Trump transition team, responded to requests for comment.Ĭolumbia also declined to comment in a statement, saying that all reviews of University research were kept confidential. Crowley denied the charge but acknowledged that the language is similar. After The New York Times reported a reader found that a column she wrote in the Wall Street Journal strongly resembled a 1988 article in the neoconservative magazine Commentary, a Journal editor said that the paper would not have published her piece if it had known of the parallels. The revelation comes on the heels of another CNN KFile investigation, which found more than 50 instances of plagiarism in Crowley's 2012 book, "What The (Bleep) Just Happened." On Tuesday, the book's publisher, HarperCollins, announced that it would stop selling the book until "the author has the opportunity to source and revise the material."Ĭrowley's first plagiarism scandal came in 1999, the year before she submitted her dissertation. CNN's KFile has found nearly 40 lengthy instances of Crowley lifting paragraphs from numerous sources, including several scholarly texts, the Associated Press, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. On Monday, Politico reported that it found more than a dozen examples of plagiarism in Crowley's Ph.D. Conservative commentator Monica Crowley, who is slated to serve in a top national security communications role in Donald Trump's presidential administration, plagiarized thousands of words of her 2000 dissertation for her Columbia University Ph.D., a CNN KFile review has found.