Comments on: It’s Not Alberto Gonzales’ Fault that Rachel Paulose Is an Authoritarian Nut, Really

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:03:52 +0000

Rachel may be a poster child for Bushbot Ideologues, burrowed-in deep, but not playing well with others at the same time.

And, just like you say, look! – there’s Gonzo throwing his hands up with wide eyes, saying that it’s not what he intended to ‘happen’ – he couldn’t possibly be Responsible, because he was Too Busy steadily ‘looking-away’ from Monica’s and Kyle’s Loyalty Grooming Program – the “Be Like Rachel” Program.

By: Jkat

Jkat — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:35:26 +0000

the whole thing is nutty .. there is no way both statements can be true .. it’d be like getting your eggs scrambled but sunny-side-up .. you get one or the other but you can’t get both using the same egg ..

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:00:50 +0000

She’s a mole.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:01:12 +0000

Several sites are showing the spoils practice tradition for lameduck presidents. On the Palouse matter, I read only the lawDotcom version, a reprint from Associated Press [attribution included], showing how the arbitration process hid what occurred and saved the need to burnish the resume. PEER is thinking there are ducks in that blind, too; consider this week’s note that the inventor of the effort to shutter all EPA libraries now is shepherding EPA’s effort to foot-drag in the mandate to open up e-filing of regional complaints; EPA accomplished the e-filling procrastination by shortening the public comment phase to 24 hours. Similarly in this lameduck strategy long planned, EPA has used the federal register process to waive the 100′ riparian buffer limit for Appalachian coal strip-mining which uses the push mountaintop into streams ‘technology’, also this week; the principal objections included mention the technique already has buried 1200 miles of streams in Appalachia, a demographically economically disadvantaged part of the country. There are going to be lots of ground hogs to watch February 2, 2009; some of them are going to be secret exGWBush widgets.

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:47:53 +0000

So I am baffled – is she an advisor to AG Mukasey or counselor for Elisabeth Cook?

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:43:45 +0000

LA Times says “In a prepared statement issued Monday (back in 2007), Paulose said that she was resigning to become counselor to the assistant attorney general for legal policy at the Justice Department in Washington. That behind-the-scenes office helps coordinate a wide range of policy initiatives for the department and vets administration nominees to the federal bench.”
http://articles.latimes.com/20.....a-usatty20

By: MadDog

MadDog — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:19:00 +0000

Hey Fredo, nuts don’t fall far from the tree!

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:18:02 +0000

The Plame outing ruined some of the people who knew that there were no WMDs in Iraq.

And then I see that Silberman was brought in to help with the cover-up. (wiki says) “On 6 February 2004, Silberman was appointed co-chair of the Iraq Intelligence Commission, an independent panel created to investigate U.S. intelligence surrounding the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq”

And further, after his help with the cover-up, GW rewarded him: “In June 2008, Silberman was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor granted by the government of the United States.”

This all stinks.

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:07:13 +0000

Elisebeth Collins Cook, Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy at DOJ is a Federalist Society member. Her DOJ bio says “She clerked for the Honorable Laurence H. Silberman of the United States Court of the Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the Honorable Lee H. Rosenthal of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.”
Pictures:
http://www.abovethelaw.com/200.....the_ha.php

By: maryo2

maryo2 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:53:15 +0000

Jason Leopold does not know either as of yesterday: “Paulose was reassigned by Mukasey last year to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Policy in non-managerial capacity. She served in an interim capacity for a year, …, and was formally installed in March 2007.”

No mention of her leaving. Maybe Eric Black, a former reporter for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune who was mentioned by Leopold, knows how to find out where she is now.