A student document by Hegseth’s alma Mater stated that the Senior Thesis of 2003 by the Secretary of Defense of the United States contains eight cases of “non -accredited material, silly paraphrase and verbatim copy”
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been accused of plagiarism For the student document of the University of Princeton – its alma mater.
The Daily Princetonian claims that 2003 Hegseth’s Senior Thesis Contains eight cases of “non -credited material, paraphrasing and verbal copy.”
Hegseth ThesisGraduated “Modern Presidential Rhetoric and the context of the Cold War,” he was reviewed by three plagiarism experts, who said they were not aware of the author’s identity before assessing the work, he reported independent.
In one of the eight examples, Hegseth wrote on the reaction of President George W. Bush to receive the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York on 11 of 11, writing: “After whisper’s card, Bush seemed distracted and Sombrí, but continued to listen to second students, joking that they read as sixth grade.”
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But an article from the Washington Post published in 2001 says: “After Card’s whisper, Bush seemed distracted and Shadow, but thought to listen to second -degree students, read and soon smiled. She joked that they read so well, they must be sixth grade.”
This article in the publication is not cited in the Hegseth document. Plagiarism detection models marked 12 passages from the thesis.
The experts marked 12, but said that four were not significant enough to be important and, instead, “they adapt to a wider pattern in some form of plagiarism.”
Experts who reviewed the passages agree that they violated Princeton’s academic rules; However, they have different opinions on whether these breaches are serious enough to be significant.
James M. Lang, author of trap lessons: learning from academic dishonestity, characterized the case as a “border”, saying the Princetonian, “there is no silver bullet here; there is no smoking gun regarding a deep example of plagiarism.”
However, he said that the situation was more “gray than black and white”, the circumstances, with about half of the examples of plagiarism being severe and the other half was relatively smaller.
An example in which experts diverge is a passage written by the Secretary of Defense on the speech of former President John F. Kennedy, Berlin Wall.
“ Wall’s speech in Berlin represents a rare occurrence in presidential rhetoric; trapped in the emotion of the moment, Kennedy, who had just gave a speech on the need for peace, took away and let go of the opposite, saying that there was no way to work with communists, ” said Hegseth.
This passage has an amazing resemblance to one in Richard Reeves’ book, President Kennedy: Profile of Power, where he is written: “ In his enthusiasm, Kennedy, who had just talked about peace and was trying to work on a prohibition of evidence prohibition with the Soviets, had taken away and had just published the opposite, saying that there was no way to work with communists. ”
Reeves is mentioned in the Hegseth document, even for this particular phrase, but without quotes. Lang considers the matter to be serious, but Jonathan Baily of Plagia has told The Princetonian today that he was not so serious.
“Even the most direct ones still involve a sentence or two at once,” Bailey said.
Guy Curtis, a researcher at the University of Western Australia, specializing in academic integrity, stated that the thesis violated university rules on non -attributed copy.
“Once you get 10 to 15 words in a row by” accident “that correspond to something else, it is probably not accidental,” said Curtis.
However, there are no specific regulations for the discovered plagiarism after graduation. Bailey suggests that these instances could be due to neglect or supervision.
“This does not fit the pattern of someone who deliberately entered this, trying to plagiarly plagiarizing their way to finish it,” said Bailey. “It seems that these were poor writing techniques and bad methodology.”
After the Daily Princetonian published his work, Cap Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell published a statement at Military.com showing his support for Hegseth.
“Secretary Hegseth has written five books. He has written hundreds of papers and options. During the confirmation process, each word was reviewed by the most important left -wing law firms working together with each country sale,” said Parnell.
“They found no plagiarism because there was no plagiarism. This is a false story designed to distract DOD’s historical accomplishments under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s leadership.”