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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.
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Panic! Alert! Nevermind!

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 12 2008, 12:49 PM ET Comment

The Capitol Police have a habit of evacuating the Capitol building every time an airplane wanders into the Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) around Capitol Hill. Violations occur more often than you might think. Two F-16s, operating under the nickname "Brave," wait on the runway at Andrews Air Force Base and get fairly regular exercise by chasing wayward Cessnas out of the area. You would think that most amateur pilots would be aware of the flight restrictions around the Washington area by now, but you would be wrong.

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