From The Washington Post
By Dan Froomkin

Timothy S. Goeglein, a top White House aide who is President Bush’s chief liaison to religious groups, has admitted to plagiarizing a column he wrote for his hometown paper, the Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel.

Goeglein is a special assistant to the president and deputy director of public liaison. He previously worked closely with Karl Rove and during the 2004 election was Bush’s chief emissary to conservative political groups.

Sylvia A. Smith writes in the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette: “A Fort Wayne native and White House official acknowledged Friday he copied large portions of an essay that appeared in a Dartmouth College publication and presented them as his own in a News-Sentinel column.

“‘It is true,’ Tim Goeglein wrote to The Journal Gazette in an email. ‘I am entirely at fault. It was wrong of me. There are no excuses.’

“He said he wrote to the author of the essay, Jeffrey Hart ‘to apologize, and do so categorically and without exception.’

” Nancy Nall, a former News-Sentinel columnist who writes a blog from her home in Michigan, detailed the nearly word-for-word similarities of eight paragraphs of Goeglein’s 16-paragraph essay about college education, which appeared in the News-Sentinel Thursday, and Hart’s column, which was written about a decade ago.

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