White House assistant admits plagiarism

From CNN's Kathleen Koch

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A senior White House official, Tim Goeglein, has resigned after he admitted copying large sections of an essay he wrote for a newspaper in Fort Wayne, Ind., the White House confirmed Friday.

In an e-mail to The News-Sentinel, Goeglein, special assistant to the
president and deputy director of public liaison, apologizes, saying, "It is
true. I am entirely at fault. It was wrong of me. There are no excuses."

Goeglein said he has reached out to the author, Jeffery Hart,
whose 1998 writings in the Dartmouth Review he copied nearly verbatim.  "I have written to Jeff to apologize, and do so categorically and without exception,"
he says.