Investigating Political Plagiarism and Its Repercussions

Investigating Political Plagiarism and Its Repercussions

The article focuses on political plagiarism and how most politicians go unpunished for plagiarism. The writer uses Senator Walsh as an example, Walsh was accused to have plagiarized his graduate school papers. Senator Walsh tried hard to defend himself from the plagiarism accusations by first saying that his plagiarism acts were not intentional, secondly, he added that his actions of plagiarism were connected to post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered while in Iraq (Martin1). Members of the public did not believe this reason and Walsh swept the matter under the carpet by asking Americans to look and move ahead, admitting…