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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (107511)	4/20/2007 1:05:06 PM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 132070

startribune.com 3 top dogs in the fed prosecutor's office SELF-DEMOTED themselves rather than continued to work in close contact with the gal Bush put in charge of the federal district.... Yesterday I heard on the radio the rumored reason....which I will relate shortly...but first I looked on the net for info on the fed prosecutor in charge of the Minneapolis office. /////////// On August 3, 2006, while serving as acting U.S. Attorney in Minnesota, [3] Paulose's nomination was sent to the U.S. Senate by President George W. Bush [6]. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a voice vote [7] on December 9, 2006, the last day of the 109th Congress . This confirmation occured without a hearing or vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee, but was moved out of committee as part of a rarely used [8] "discharge resoution." [9] Paulose was sworn in as U.S. Attorney on March 9, 2007. The ceremony aroused controversy in the local press. See: Swearing_In. Paulose's investiture was held before 300 people in the atrium of the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, MN on Friday, March 9, 2007. Minneapolis television station later KSTP ran a piece likening it to a "coronation", showing a program that referred to a "processional" and included a U.S. Marine color guard, professional photographer and choir, which was shown singing. Raju D. Kunjummen, Th.M., Paulose's uncle and Associate Professor at Michigan Theological Seminary, offered the invocation. Swearing-in ceremonies for U.S. Attorneys are normally modest affairs held at the appropriate federal courthouse.[5] Paulose has dismissed the criticism, saying the program KSTP based its report on was inaccurate and had been discarded long before the ceremony, although the color guard and choir were indeed present. She also added that the cost to taxpayers was minimal since the school donated the use of their atrium (which they normally rent for $1,500) for the investiture ceremony at her request, she paid for everything and the total government cost of the ceremony was only $225,[5] less than half the $500 she was budgeted.[6] Representatives of government watchdog groups said the donation was inappropriate and that the money spent didn't include the cost to taxpayers of event planning by Paulose's employees.[5] [edit] "Problem" Press While interviewing Paulose, a reporter with Kstp.com, a local ABC affiliate, stated that he was in possession of a six-page single-spaced document from the U.S. Attorney's office that "identified 'problem-reporters.'" [7] Paulose only denied producing this list, but when asked whether she was "aware" of the list, she only replied that "I don't know why you are asking me this." [8] [edit] Staff Problems Main article: 2006 Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys controversy On April 5, 2007, three of her top administrators — First Assistant U.S. Attorney John Marti, second in command; civil division head Erika Monzangue and criminal division head James Lackner — voluntarily resigned those positions, reverting to simple assistant U.S. attorney status, reportedly in protest over Paulose's management style. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, she was noted for dressing down underlings and quoting Bible verses on the job. They had done so after a visit from a representative of the Executive Office of the U.S. Attorney in Washington. [9] A later report said that the visit had been a last-ditch attempt by the Bush administration to persuade the three not to resign, and that a fourth official declined to comment on whether he had resigned or not.[10] Paulose's defenders say that three simply had trouble changing their ways to accomodate an aggressive young prosecutor determined to bring the office more into line with the Attorney General's policies, and it has nothing to do with politics.[11] The St. Paul Pioneer Press later reported that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee would probably be investigating the resignations.[12] //////////////// What I heard as the "rumor" is that she is an evangelical "nutcase".............she quotes the bible regularly to "explain" why some cases will go forward and why others should be dismissed..........civil right cases go bye-bye/pornography cases go forward, even when the charge is rather dubious----as in one case where a man had pictures on his computer of his sister's naked baby being bathed----even though that pic was but one of a series of pictures on his computer that his sister had sent to introduce him to his niece..........she's a member of the FEDERALIST SOCIETY....you may remember that from the first days of the Bush administration in '01 it was said that a few representatives of that organization took up residence in a White House office for the sole purpose of providing names of lawyers for Bush to appoint to fed positions..........and apparently that has been the case/you just can't find any lawyers appointed who have no membership in that org..........and apparently as time has gone on, evangelical connections have become a needed connection as well...............This Rachel P also has some connections with the "faith based" initiative that dispenses "the loot" to the "Christ faithful".