Former Nixon aide and Fox News analyst Monica Crowley won’t be taking a foreign policy communications role in popular vote loser Donald Trump’s White House after all. Stephen Dinan writes:
Ms. Crowley, who had been tapped to be senior director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, had been dogged in recent weeks by questions about whether she lifted portions of her past written work from other writers. Her move seemed designed to keep that from becoming a distraction as the Trump team prepares to take office. [...]
A report by CNN earlier this month found passages in Ms. Crowley’s 2012 book “What the (Bleep) Just Happened” closely tracked with others’ work. A separate story by Politico, a website for political insiders, said it found more than a dozen instances of what it deemed plagiarism or insufficient attribution in her 2000 dissertation.
HarperCollins, the publisher of the 2012 book, withdrew the digital version of the book from circulation last week amid the accusations.
And that is that.