Arnaud de Borchgrave - Plagiarism Allegations

Plagiarism Allegations

On 17 May 2012, Erik Wemple, a blogger for The Washington Post, noted that de Borchgrave's columns in The Washington Times reflected his think tank work and raised questions about the originality of some of his writing, citing similarities between elements of de Borchgrave columns and other published material. Wemple included de Borchgrave's explanations for those, but also the doubts expressed about the similarities by some of the other organizations involved. Elsewhere, the news website Salon reported that anonymous Times officials claimed that the paper had known about de Borchgrave's plagiarism nearly a year before Winkle's investigation, and initially discontinued de Borchgrave's column before resuming it without any disciplinary action. De Borchgrave denied the allegations, and claimed that his column was suspended because he was on book leave. The Washington Times then announced that de Borchgrave would take a hiatus to complete work on his memoirs, while the paper conducted an inquiry into his work. Some of de Borchgrave's recent columns were later removed from the Washington Times website. The CSIS also announced its own investigation of work de Borchgrave had published under its name.