The Army War College on Thursday said that the school would look into allegations that Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) plagiarized parts of his 2007 master’s thesis and may revoke his degree.
The college will put together a review board, and Walsh will be able to submit materials for consideration, according to a War College statement to NBC Montana. After the board conducts its review, the school’s deputy commandant will decided whether or not to revoke Walsh’s degree.
“We hold our students responsible for academic integrity. Then and now, we trust them to uphold high standards of academic integrity unless there is reason to believe otherwise,” Army War College spokeswoman Carol Kerr said in the statement.
According to the New York Times, Walsh plagiarized large portions of the paper.
When asked about the allegations by the Times, Walsh said he “didn’t do anything intentional here.”
According to a Walsh aide, Walsh was dealing with personal issues while working on the assignment — a member of his Army unit committed suicide a few weeks before the paper was due.
I’m a democrat. Stop with the hollow excuses. Resign. Go away. Your’e an embarrassment to all who serve honorably.
Jeez, if they take away his Master’s degree, he’ll still be more educated than Jan Brewer. No reason to resign. Move on about your business. If hookers and diapers won’t keep someone from winning re-election, why should this be insurmountable?
Yeah, it’s not like he drove his car into a river with a young lady who was not his wife, swam away, and reported the “accident” the next day. Besides, plagiarism didn’t force Joe Biden to resign from the Senate.
But, Senator Walsh should have corrected his thesis sooner.
I would say someone who earned a CIB and Bronze Star served honorably. If he knew he was reporting someone else’s work as his own, he should have reported it on his own and much sooner.
Walsh could have done himself a favor
by self-reporting the allegations to the War College and asking for a review of his work. If he had reported himself, said that any non-attributed work was inadvertent and asked for a chance to make revisions, he’d have more credibility than he does by getting found out and then throwing up a list of seemingly implausible excuses.