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Clarke, an
African-American who became a staunch critic of the Black Lives
Matter movement and supported Republican Donald Trump's
presidential campaign, lifted language from multiple sources for
his thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School, CNN reported on
Saturday.
Clarke provided footnotes for the sources of the thesis, titled
"Making U.S. security and privacy rights compatible," the story
by CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski said. But the thesis failed to
use quotation marks where Clarke used passages verbatim, which
breaches school guidelines, the network said.
"Guy is a sleaze bag. I'm on to him folks," Clarke wrote of
Kaczynski in a Twitter post late on Saturday. The post linked to
a story in which Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky pushed
back against a Kaczynski story for Buzzfeed News, in which he
was accused of using disputed quotes.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that Clarke said in an
email to the paper, "Only someone with a political agenda would
say this is plagiarism."
The Naval Postgraduate School, in Monterey, California, did not
respond to a request for comment.
On Twitter, Kaczynski wrote on Sunday, "Sheriff Clarke has yet
to respond to the substance of our story."
Clark said on Wednesday that he had accepted a job as assistant
secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. In a radio
interview, he said he would act as a liaison with state and
local police and governments and with the private sector.
David Lapan, a department spokesman, said by email that no
announcement on Clarke had been made.
Clarke spoke in support of Trump at the Republican National
Convention in Cleveland last July. He has criticized the Black
Lives Matter movement, which grew out of protests over a number
of police killings of unarmed black men, as "subhuman creeps."
Critics have faulted Clarke for his management of a Milwaukee
County jail where a mentally ill man died in 2016 of dehydration
after seven days without water. An inquest jury recommended that
seven employees of the jail be criminally charged.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editing by Sandra Maler)
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