Full-Spectrum Criminals

Blogger Nancy Nall nails White House official and Rove protege Tim Goeglein for plagiarism.

By the end of the day, he resigns.

A White House official who serves as President Bush's middleman with conservatives and Christian groups has resigned after admitting to plagiarism. Twenty columns he wrote for an Indiana newspaper were determined to have material copied from other sources without attribution.

Timothy Goeglein, who has worked for Bush since 2001, acknowledged that he lifted material from a Dartmouth College publication and presented it as his own work in a column about education for The News-Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Ind.

This is slightly more severe than borrowing lines in political speeches. Goeglein published as his own work an essay that he ripped off. If he received a financial benefit, and if the Dartmouth essay was copyrighted, it's actually a federal crime.

So you can add copyright violation to embezzlement, racketeering, invasion of privacy, shoplifting, voter intimidation and suppression, perjury, obstruction of justice, warrantless spying, torture, money laundering, solicitation, and the hundreds of other crimes perpetrated by Bush Administration and Republican officials. They really don't leave any stone unturned.