Mukasey's NEW? DoJ: Paulose Offered Justice Department Position

[L. Coyote]

Paulose Offered Justice Department Position
By Paul Kiel - Nov 19, 2007
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004745.php


That's one way of solving the problem. Just breaking now from the AP:

Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. attorney for Minnesota, will be leaving the post to take a position at the Justice Department in Washington, according to a Bush administration official and congressional aide.

What position? We'll have more when we know more.

No matter what position it is, it's hard to see it as anything other than a way of defusing the problems with the 34 year-old Paulose. She was the focus of an Office of Special Counsel investigation into whether she'd discriminated against office employees, including allegedly using the words “fat,” “black,” “lazy” and “ass” in remarks to one employee.

And that was after four top attorneys in the office voluntarily demoted themselves in protest of Paulose's Bible-quoting management style.

Update: The Star Tribune reports (http://www.startribune.com/10241/story/1561365.html): .....

[aquart]

1. Thanks, Chuck.

[peacetalksforall]

2. Party time in Minnesota. !!!!! I hope the ones who asked to be downgraded

to get away from her get upgraded,

[L. Coyote]

3. That would be a real sign of Justice. And contradictory of this move, so I doubt it.

[L. Coyote]

4. Former USA Thomas W. Heffelfinger: Paulose Move Averted More Resignations?

Paulose Move Averted More Resignations?
By Paul Kiel - Nov 20, 2007
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004748.php


So what provoked U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Rachel Paulose's sudden move back to Washington? The Washington Post reports (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/19/AR2007111901582_pf.html) that Paulose's interview (http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzRkZDMzMjQxYjVmYzlkODJjYWJmZTg5YjM3MDE3Yzc=&w=MQ==) with the National Review might have something to do with it. In the interview, a response to the variety of employee complaints against her, she decried the "McCarthyite hysteria that permits the anonymous smearing of any public servant who is now, or ever may have been, a member of the Federalist Society; a person of faith; and/or a conservative (especially a young, conservative woman of color)." ....

.... according to her predecessor as Minnesota U.S. attorney, Thomas W. Heffelfinger. He said in an interview last night that "at least one and as many as three of her current staff managers either had resigned or were threatening to resign today." ....