Too Rich:Paulose says 'conspiracy theories' on her fast rise to top are off base

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Paulose says 'conspiracy theories' on her fast rise to top are off base
Minnesota's U.S. attorney defends her qualifications and says she's learned from her mistakes.


Rachel Paulose, the embattled 34-year-old U.S. attorney for Minnesota, cannot fathom how she came to be portrayed in some recent news reports and blogs as a mean-spirited, autocratic climber who may have gotten her job as part of a scheme in Washington to replace independent prosecutors with GOP foot soldiers.

"These wild conspiracy theories are just that -- totally off base," Paulose said in her first interview on the subject. "No one communicated to me -- in any form -- about any plan to remove any U.S. attorney."

Paulose's appointment in March 2006 as interim U.S. attorney raised eyebrows among some former colleagues in that office and the cloistered world of Minnesota's federal bar.

Publicly, no one objected to the choice, but privately some wondered how a young woman with virtually no management experience had bested more seasoned candidates for one of the most coveted legal jobs in Minnesota.

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http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1121351.html

[americanstranger]

1. I'd say a wholesale mutiny in her own office

isn't a 'conspiracy theory.'

They had to send a DOJ bigwig out from DC to save her incompetent ass.

We're supposed to listen to anything she says after her staff took pay cuts to get out from under her. Sheah, right.

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[maddezmom]

2. exactly...

kick

[John Q. Citizen]

3. "....wild conspiracy theories." When ever anybody says that you know they are

hiding something.

I bet US attoreys hear that all the time when they are prosecuting conspiracies.

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7. Yup...

she's got the lingo down. She learned something in DC.

[EST]

4. Republicans, as a general rule, are liars and are corrupt.

If they, themselves, are not, then they condone and excuse such behavior. Why is it any surprise that we should snuspect her of the same?

[Fresh_Start]

5. no conspiracy, she earned it the old fashion way

on her knees

[Atman]

"I'm a strong-willed person....I'm also a generous and loyal and kind person."

And after all, aren't those the only real qualifications one needs to be a USA?

:sarcasm:

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[Atman]

6. Delete

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