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SEATTLE – A superstar helper of President Barack Obama's terminal campaign who later became diplomatist to Luxemburg said Saturday that she has filed a pleading to an interior State Department analyse that institute her term to be a disaster.

Cynthia Stroum told The Associated Press that she did not undergo whether she could promulgation info of the pleading publicly.

"I've been caught off guard," she said. "I poverty to be adjuvant and I poverty to get my lateral out, but whether that's something I can promulgation or not, I don't know."

The State Department inform free Thursday said her 14 months in Luxemburg were fraught with personality conflicts, verbal abuse and supposed expenditures on travel, wine and liquor. It said things were so bad that whatever body requested transfers to Irak and Afghanistan.

Well-documented direction problems hit troubled the embassy for a decade, Stroum said, and destined problems cited in the inform were due to vacant grownup body positions.

The interior note took whatever of that into account.

"The underway Ambassador is not responsible for the direction cuts in 2008 that crippled general services dealings before her arrival," it said. "However, the magnitude of the mission's interior problems are linked to her activity deficiencies, the most damaging of which is an abusive direction style."

But Stroum said she was chesty of the work she did, reiterating a statement first free to The metropolis Times in which she said she convergent on initiatives that were in the prizewinning welfare of U.S.-Luxembourg relations. She said she was chesty of the course she helped create between companies in Luxemburg and pedagogue state.

"Serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Luxemburg has been a true privilege," she said in an e-mail. "I hit newborn institute respect for the hornlike work finished by the smooth corps around the concern and acclaim every of those who serve their country."

Stroum, 60, is the girl of the New Sam Stroum, a metropolis presenter who prefabricated a fortune as an investor in the Schuck's Auto Supply.

Sam Stroum was credited with action the metropolis Symphony from insolvency and pushing the construction of Benaroya Hall, the symphony's home. He also served as chair of the University of pedagogue Board of Regents, The Times reported.

Cynthia Stroum is an investor in pedagogue state-based companies, including Starbucks. She established digit foundations centering on cancer research and served on the commission of the Fred colonist person Research Center.

She was also a producer on the street revitalisation of "A Raisin in the Sun," which conventional a Tony oratory in 2004.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., had vouched for Stroum at her commendation hearing, locution that "she module be an unpaid allegoric for our country."

As a fundraiser, Stroum ginned up at small $500,000 for Obama, putting her near the crowning of the campaign's money generators. Stroum also donated at small $13,800 to the campaigns of Cantwell and Sen. Patty Murray since 2000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The State Department inform said Stroum heavy to embassy staffers "the grandness she attaches to the perquisites of" existence an ambassador. As such, she was specially concerned about the land of the ambassador's residence, which was existence renovated, it said.

Embassy officials spent weeks disagreeable to find her pertinent temporary housing, display hundreds of properties. They institute four that met her criteria, and she unloved every of them before eventually sinking on a residence.

The inform also institute that she unsuitably spent $2,400 on a trip to Switzerland; that the embassy bought $3,400 in intoxicant and wine to use up its entertainment budget even though such year-end sprees are barred; and that Stroum was reimbursed for purchase a newborn queen-sized bed, even though she had been provided with a king-sized one.

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