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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

Novak Reveals Top Secret/Codeword Operation?

By Marc Ambinder
Jul 30 2007, 8:22 AM ET Comment

It sure sounds like it. Bob Novak writes of a secret briefing by Defense official Eric Edelman (he's the one who came close to accusing Hillary Clinton of disloyalty) to inform members of Congress about a covert miltary operation to help the Turkish government "supress Kurdish guerrillas" to "forstall" Turkey from invading Kurdish Northern Iraq.

Edelman's listeners were stunned. Wasn't this risky? He responded he was sure of success, adding that the U.S. role could be concealed and always would be denied. Even if all this is true, some of the briefed lawmakers left wondering whether this was a wise policy for handling the beleaguered Kurds who had been betrayed so often by U.S. governments in years past.


A week later, the details were leaked to Novak, ostensibly by someone from the legislative branch.

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