He currently represents Monica Lewinsky. Thomas Dillard, who spent 14 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Knoxville, Tenn., then four years as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Florida, said a lack of real world experience among prosecutors also has hurt. They sit in this lofty tower with a rather skewed vision of the world. They are on a divine mission, and everything that gets in their way is evil. The ends justify the means.
Huge budgets exacerbate the problem.
They have to justify their existence. They go out and make things crimes that weren't even crimes 10 years ago. For it to get to the point where prosecutors honestly believe they are immune from state ethical standards, they honestly believe purchasing witness testimony at any cost is OK, and they honestly believe a grand jury is their own little forum, all of that is . . . A stream of cable television talk shows has put federal crimefighters in the limelight every night on prime time. Playing to the camera becomes another pressure on law enforcement officers to win at any cost.