McNaney Says He'll Drop the Other Shoe on Paulose

Those of us baffled by what the Star Tribune meant this morning when, in its first straight news staff-reported piece on Minnesota US Attorney Rachel Paulose and the widening scandal out of DC said, “No one has linked her to the controversy in Washington,” (with “controversy” being a bit of a dismissive euphemism, I’d say), might want to check out the story KSTP’s Bob McNaney is putting together beginning with this morning’s 11 am newscast on ch. 5.

For the moment, McNaney is the only local reporter to get the ironically reclusive Paulose on tape. (“Ironically”, since based on her gaudy investiture — the one that prompted McNaney’s first story — this particular US Attorney is not afflicted with excessive modesty.) He says he had planned another piece on Paulose, possibly involving the rather provocative connections between her and the “controversy in Washington” — like the part, says McNaney, where Monica Goodling, the top justice official who copped the Fifth Amendment rather than tell Congress what the hell has been going on, had been invited to speak at Paulose’s investiture.

McNaney says the 11 am report will be primarily a talker as he and his editors edit previously unused tape from their earlier story for ch. 5’s 5 and 10 pm newscasts.

Perhaps by 10:30 tonight the Star Tribune will re-examine the possibility of “connections” to the “controversy”.