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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.

"Hillary Clinton Voted To Send Our Troops To War"

By Marc Ambinder
Mar 3 2008, 8:29 AM ET Comment

From a radio ad airing throughout Ohio on behalf of Barack Obama:

I'm Tony McPeak. As a combat pilot and head of the Air Force during Desert Storm lives depended on the judgments I made. And judgment is what we need from our next Commander in Chief. Barack Obama. opposed the Iraq War from the start. HC voted to send our troops to war, without reading a key intelligence report that raised serious questions about Iraq... [etc]


He's referring, of course, to the National Intelligence Estimate, which Obama raised by point of contrast in his stump speech yesterday to former Sen. Bob Graham, the then chairman of the intelligence committee who both read the NIE and used it as a pretext to vote against the use of force resolution. Clinton has said that she was briefed on the contents of the report but did not find it necessary to page through the whole classified little bugger itself.

I'm efforting the audio and will post shortly.

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