Justice official is expected to help U.S. attorney's office (in Minnesota)

Source: Star Tribune

By PAUL McENROE, DAN BROWNING and PAM LOUWAGIE
Star Tribune staff writers
Last update: April 06, 2007 – 9:48 PM

A Justice Department official in Washington is expected to return to Minneapolis next week to help run the U.S. attorney's office in Minnesota, according to an attorney with knowledge of an upheaval that led three lawyers to quit their management jobs Thursday.

The official, John Kelly, the chief of staff and a deputy director in the U.S. attorney's executive office in Washington, may wind up being tapped to be the first assistant to U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose in Minneapolis, the attorney said Friday. ~snip~

Kelly first came to Minneapolis at Paulose's request to try to bridge the divide between Paulose and her top assistants, said the attorney, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for job protection. But they resigned later that day to return to prosecuting cases full time.

"She had briefed him that there was an uprising," the attorney said. Initially, Kelly was scheduled to have short interviews with the attorneys but the meetings went nearly two hours, the attorney said. ~snip~



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Kind of sums up the entire Bush philosophy, doesn't it?

Former Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Sandy Keith warned Paulose at the ceremony that she would come under criticism because she is a woman "and you're too young." But Keith added, "I know you'll surround yourself with outstanding and experienced people to help you carry out these duties."

Outstanding and experienced people like the ones who just quit?

Sometimes people are just jerks. It doesn't matter what the age, race, sex, etc. of the person is: a jerk is a jerk.

And if someone IS upset by a person's younger age, then that's all the more reason to defer to them. Not only do they have more experience, but simple courtesy demands it.

right-wing hard line Christian, putting god into the attorney';s office, till noone could stand working there any longer.

I've heard the same accusation, and agree with you.

I said And if someone IS upset by a person's younger age, then that's all the more reason to defer to them. Not only do they have more experience, but simple courtesy demands it.

When I said, "defer to them," I meant "the boss should defer to her employees." The young one, the Pat Robertson-quoting one, should be the deferential one. She should, by simple courtesy (if not plain-old commonsense), defer to the more experienced attorneys on the job.

It's the sign of a good boss as opposed to a megalomaniacal one; someone who wants to know the best way of doing something as opposed to already "knowing" the best way.

On edit: my age comments came from the original link.

everyone back. i want everything back, damn it. :)

At this point, Bush makes Nixon look pretty good.

that ineffective at being a 'boss'. This situation sounded untenable for the 3 people that preferred to take a different job (at lower pay) rather than work with her.

I am sure I can not figure out where they get these so called college Republicans that seem to be so lost in the Middle Ages to work for them. Didn't someone write a book about the closing Am. mind? Well we have seen it first hand since Bush and Co. got in. All these people seem to be just a like and they are in every agency of the govt. now, Nothing runs well any more. All one needs to do is open the paper each day to see more mess they have made.

How would you like to show up at work on Monday and find her in charge?

Just another of The Decider's decisions gone awry.

She is a major player.

......But Dunne told Paulose he couldn't abide by the request, one of the attorneys said, and when he refused, Dunne was forced to give up his position as chief of the narcotics section. Dunne would not comment Friday.

Another attorney, who has knowledge of office operations, said Dunne and several others stepped down because of the way Paulose treated them. "It gets to the point where you can't manage in that environment," said the attorney, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Paulose has clearly defined her prosecution priorities: guns, child porn, immigration enforcement, public corruption and methamphetamine trafficking.

As a result, some enforcement programs have been scaled back, one attorney said. Among them: going after landlords who have not removed lead paint from their properties, easing up on enforcement of laws protecting people with disabilities and health care, that source said.

that bush & co uses DOJ cases for propaganda and photo ops.

The "rift" in one it says was about a narcotics case - set op for gonzo or his top people to give maybe a press conference. One of the resigned attorneys did not want to claim it do be something it was not.
He did not want to lie - I applaud him.

....high-ranking Justice Department officials who would be coming to Minneapolis from Washington to highlight the office's high-profile cases, the attorneys said.

Paulose instructed the head of the narcotics section, Andy Dunne, to state in the memo that prosecutors had won convictions that ended drug dealing by St. Paul's Latin Kings gang, they said. emphasis mine

and this is not merely a dispute of policy - this sounds like an attempt to coerce someone to lie:

But Dunne told Paulose he couldn't abide by the request, one of the attorneys said, and when he refused, Dunne was forced to give up his position as chief of the narcotics section. Dunne would not comment Friday.

Even though he's to be "her first assistant".. .
Kind of like Cheney was supposed to keep Jr. from going off the tracks, right?