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Democracy, Plutocracy and Useful Idiots »

By Jim Marcinkowski on May 17, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

Editor’s Note: Jim Marcinkowski, a former county prosecutor and attorney, is well-known to NoQuarter readers as the CIA classmate of Larry Johnson and Valerie Plame Wilson who spoke before Congress and in many media interviews following the exposure of Valerie Plame Wilson. The former FBI agent and Navy veteran was the 2008 Democratic candidate for [...]

We Need Less Government Like… »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Feb 26, 2010 in Current Affairs | View Comments

As we approach the next round of elections this year, we will undoubtedly hear about the need for tort reform and how, according to some national groups, we need to shrink Big Government to the point where it can be ‘drowned in the bath tub.”  While such slogans may have a certain appeal, it may be [...]

“Do Unto Others…” »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Nov 5, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments

By Jim Marcinkowski The debate about whether “waterboarding” constitutes torture misses the point. Imagine for a moment that you are the chief law enforcement officer investigating the kidnapping of an infant. You have a suspect in custody who is believed to be the only person who knows where the child is being kept. Without food [...]

What Americans Know…and Don’t Get »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Sep 11, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments

By Jim Marcinkowski Put away the charts and graphs, the generals with all of their shiny metals, and the politicos with all their spin and dishonesty. None of it matters to the average American, and for good reason. What American’s know: Charts and graphs mean nothing. If you “surge” police forces onto every street corner [...]

Wilson Case Dismissed »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Jul 23, 2007 in CIA, Current Affairs, Intelligence, Joseph Wilson, Plamegate | View Comments

Posted by Jim Marcinkowski SECRET/NOFORN/NOMORONS/NOREPUBS/NOPOLITOCOS/NOHACKS TO: CIA STATIONS WORLDWIDE FM: LEGAL COUNSEL – LANGLEY, VIRGINIA RE: DISMISSAL OF WILSON/PLAME DISCLOSURE CASE – SUMMARY REF: Valerie Plame Wilson et al v. I. Lewis Libby, et al. As you are no doubt aware, last week Judge John D. Bates of the federal district court in WDC dismissed [...]

A VERY THIN LINE »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Jul 20, 2007 in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CIA, Current Affairs, Pakistan | View Comments

By Jim Marcinkowski and Kelly Raskauskas Without sufficient caffeine, I opened yesterday morning’s NY Times to find my local legislator quoted in the front-page story, Bush Aides See Failure in Fight With Al-Quaeda in Pakistan. “We have to change policy,” said Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, a Republican member of the House Intelligence Committee who [...]

Ain’t No Cure for Stupid »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Mar 29, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments

by Jim Marcinkowski As an attorney, you may not always get a client that you are philosophically aligned with, who is pleasant or in many, many cases, who is not guilty as hell.  Your job is not to protect the guilty but to protect the system under which the guilty get convicted.  It’s a matter [...]

Victoria’s Secret »

By Jim Marcinkowski on Feb 27, 2007 in Current Affairs | View Comments

As a prosecutor and former CIA operations officer, I found Victoria Toensing’s article, “Trial in Error” to be as outrageous as it was misleading. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021601705.html The logic-defying argument advanced by Victoria “I Don’t Know Squat About Secrets” Toensing can be broken down into three major points:  that Valerie Plame Wilson was not covert; that the [...]