Marc Ambinder

Atlantic contributing editor Marc Ambinder is co-writing a book on national security and secrecy. More


'The Beast' Gets Stuck in Ireland

'The Beast' Gets Stuck in Ireland

President Obama's heavy-duty limousine is no match for a strip of pavement, and a brief Secret Service rescue mission ensues More »

Homeland Security's Top Cybersecurity Official Resigns

Homeland Security's Top Cybersecurity Official Resigns

Phil Reitinger, the point man on cybercrime at Homeland Security, decides it's time to move on More »

The Little-Known Agency That Helped Kill Bin Laden

The Little-Known Agency That Helped Kill Bin Laden

The National Geospatial Agency mapped bin Laden's compound, analyzed drone data, and helped the SEALs simulate their mission More »

The Secret Team That Killed Osama bin Laden

The Secret Team That Killed Osama bin Laden

Navy SEALs spent months training for the raid More »

Bin Laden's Death: A Pivotal Victory for Obama, U.S. Intelligence

Bin Laden's Death: A Pivotal Victory for Obama, U.S. Intelligence

The president silences his national-security critics heading into 2012, and the CIA stands tall after the damage of 9/11 More »

Obama's Reelection Report Card

Obama's Reelection Report Card

The president's political strengths and weaknesses, as he opens the 2012 campaign More »

5 Disadvantages for Obama in 2012

5 Disadvantages for Obama in 2012

A tough economy could make him a one-term president More »

5 Advantages for Obama in 2012

5 Advantages for Obama in 2012

The president's path to reelection More »

Obama Announces Reelection Bid

Obama Announces Reelection Bid

The 2012 election is underway More »

Obama Gets Ready to Announce Reelection Plans

Obama Gets Ready to Announce Reelection Plans

In about two weeks, the president will become a candidate More »

Obama Answers Big Questions About Libya

Obama Answers Big Questions About Libya

The president tells us why the U.S. intervened in Libya, and not elsewhere More »

The Questions That Obama Must Now Answer on Libya

The Questions That Obama Must Now Answer on Libya

The president will try to clear things up with a speech Monday night More »

Obama's First New War

Obama's First New War

The president had to balance the ideals of democracy and the hard-nosed interests of the country in his decision making. More »

Full Secret Service Transcript: The Moment Reagan Was Shot

Full Secret Service Transcript: The Moment Reagan Was Shot

Just-released audio of the command-post radio conversations from the moment President Ronald Reagan was shot on March 30, 1981 More »

Darell Issa, Kurt Bardella, and Me

Darell Issa, Kurt Bardella, and Me

Interacting with Rep. Issa's now-former spokesman More »

Q&A: Inside the Secret Service

Q&A: Inside the Secret Service

Granted unprecedented access for his recent magazine profile, The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder answers reader questions about the Secret Service and its inner workings More »

What Mubarak's Resignation Means for Obama

What Mubarak's Resignation Means for Obama

Regime change in Egypt poses a test for Obama's foreign policy doctrine More »

Issue March 2011

Inside the Secret Service

When President Obama and two-thirds of the world’s leaders gather in New York City, it is up to the U.S. Secret Service to keep them all safe. Granted unprecedented access, our author tells the story of how the agency pulls off the most complicated security event of the year, from counter-surveillance to counter-assault, hotel booking to event scheduling.

Issue March 2011

Radio Chatter

Hear a Secret Service agent struggle to keep pace with attendees at a UN conference

Epitaph for the DLC

The centrist Democratic Leadership Council may be going away, but its ideas still influence political debates More »

The Biggest Story in Photos

Picking up the Pieces After the Tornado in Moore, Oklahoma

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The intelligence brief on the apparent accident was three sentences long, and it scared the hell…