Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature, Quote
of
the
Day.
I
was
astonished.
I
have
never
seen
anything
like
that.
When
I
came
to
the
U.S.
attorney’s
office,
I
had
won
13
state
murder
prosecutions,
and
I
still
thought
I
had
such
a
slim
chance
of
getting
a
job
because
it
was
such
an
ultracompetitive
place.
Now
it’s
like,
‘If
you
ever
threw
a
pass,
do
you
want
to
be
a
quarterback?’
— Mark
Rotert,
a
former
federal
prosecutor
who
worked
as
a
U.S.
attorney
in
Chicago,
in
comments
given
to
the
Washington
Post,
concerning
the
Department
of
Justice
and
its
odd
recruiting
methods,
following
an
exodus
of
qualified
lawyers.
Rotert
recently
received
an
email
encouraging
former
prosecutors
to
apply
for
work,
and
asking
that
they
forward
the
recruiting
email
to
a
friend
(Rotert
was
one
of
those
friends).
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Zaretsky is
the
managing
editor
of
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Law,
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