And they ask why there's no confidence in the department of "justice." You could have guessed when she publicly lauded her appointment with a great big welcome me ceremony that it was a sign of trouble. But, she's the kind of folks Bush wants. Self-promoting egomaniacs who only give a damn about themselves, have little acumen in their jobs and an unhealthy personal agenda. One wonders what good work could have been done for the citizens in her jurisdiction if she hadn't spent her time preening. This is one US Attorney who should have been fired post-haste for racist attacks, if these allegations are true, and her failure as an effective manager. Instead, the new AG brought her back to HQ where she will once again thrive and revel in her self-importance. This individual is just one of the many reasons the post-Gonazales trash heap at DOJ needs a toxic cleanup in '08.

You are prejudice against people from India. Her recent ancestors come from Kerala (aka God's own country). Get use to it. We are coming to the American dream. When we are successful, you lazy Americans can not handle it. Go out and get a job yourself.

When the dark ages of the ongoing American nightmare
comes to an end in January of 2009. Let the American renaissance in part,begin with Vincent Bugliosi as the United States Attorney General.

Of course, none of the people who wrote the comments above knows Ms Paulose or anything about the case.

The real issue is that Ms Paulose has offended and frightened very powerful and wealthy pimps with her aggressive prosecution of human traffickers and online predators. With most of the revenue for ABC and Fox and other republican media coming from porn (the visual record of prostitutes working)
one can see that a US Attorney who strikes at the industry recruiters would be considered a danger to profits. And profits are always more important to republicans than the safety of women and children. This explains why the most vociferous accusations against Paulose came from well known Minnesota republicans like tom kelly and Senator norm coleman.

As one who has been experienced unethical, deceptive, stonewalling, misdirection and outright lies from Mpls U.S. Attorney Michelle Jones, I truly echo both delight in seeing her removed from office here and despair that she is in a position to potentially influence policy. In the minds of her office/colleagues, under Gonzales, being wrongfully put into and held by Hennepin County jail staff, nurses, and leadership in a restraint chair in intentionally inflicted absolute, pure, unadulterated, raw agony for over three hours is not a 'color-of-law' (law enforcement) crime or even any other crime. It was painful enough for long enough for my brain to drop into a state of delirium or near it...my brain literally created a hallucination in an attempt to escape the agony...it didn't last long enough to provide more than momentary relief...from crying, begging, pleading for mercy, screaming throughout the entire ordeal...while they laughed and mocked me and the pain they put me in...Here's the good news, the vast majority of the lies and deceptions, etc., from Rachel Paulose' minions, Hennepin County minions, City of Mpls minions, FBI minions, etc., are extremely well documented - I audio-taped almost everything! These are not he said she said lies; these are their lies in their own words! If you think your readership would find this interesting, check out www.stoptorture.us and write up whatever you think appropriate...feel free to call or email me too...thanks for your good work re Ms Paulose...

ghosdog

Oops...corrections:

1) As one who has experienced...

2) ...US Attorney Michelle Jones, who works for Rachel Paulose...

3)...delight in seeing Ms Paulose removed...

A smart, fearless journalist would have investigated why well-known ripuplican attorney, tom kelly, would have spent so much time on his efforts to remove Rachel
Paulose, and just who paid him to do so. Apparently, 'smart and fearless' are just corporate taglines to Stephanie Mencimer.