CNN investigative team: Rightist Sheriff David Clarke plagiarized 47 times in his master's thesis

Investigative reporters at CNN are calling Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. a plagiarist after examining his master’s thesis written U.S. security to earn his degree at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. They said they found 47 instances when Clarke failed to properly attribute the sources of verbatim quotations. Clarke announced this week that will be joining the Trump regime as an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security. The thesis is titled "Making U.S. security and privacy rights compatible."

Clarke is known for his alignment with Pr*sident Donald Trump, tough talk, disgust with dissent, and over-the-top characterizations of people he disagrees with, including Black Lives Matter and anyone to the left of Genghis Khan.

Andrew Kaczynski, Christopher Massie and Nathan McDermott, all part the so-called K-File team that CNN purloined from Buzzfeed last October, reported:

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.

According to guidelines on plagiarism posted on the Naval Postgraduate School's website, "If a passage is quoted verbatim, it must be set off with quotation marks (or, if it is a longer passage, presented as indented text), and followed by a properly formulated citation. The length of the phrase does not matter. If someone else's words are sufficiently significant to be worth quoting, then accurate quotation followed by a correct citation is essential, even if only a few words are involved."

The school's honor code defines plagiarism as "submitting material that in part or whole is not one's own work without proper attribution. Plagiarism is further defined as the use, without giving reasonable and appropriate credit to or acknowledging the author or source, of another person's original work, whether such work is made up of code, formulas, ideas, language, research, strategies, writing or other form(s)."