From the Cleaning Up the Mess File: White House official, Timothy Goeglein, resigns after admitting plagiarism

A White House official who served as President Bush’s middleman with conservatives and Christian groups resigned today after admitting to plagiarism. Twenty columns he wrote for an Indiana newspaper were determined to have material copied from other sources without attribution.

Timothy Goeglein, who has worked for Bush since 2001, acknowledged that he lifted material from a Dartmouth College publication and presented it as his own work in a column about education for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind. The newspaper took a closer look at his other columns and found many more instances of plagiarism.

“The president was disappointed to learn of the matter and he was saddened for Tim and his family,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said in a statement.
She said Goeglein had accepted responsibility and “has apologized for not upholding the standards expected by the president.”

The White House sought deal with the embarrassing situation quickly, the same day the plagiarism was reported by a blogger, Nancy Nall, a former News-Sentinel columnist.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-goeglein022…

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