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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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Spitzer Is The Story Of The Day

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 10 2008, 2:55 PM ET Comment

For better or worse, regardless of what you think about prostitution, privacy, hypocrisy, news coverage, and prejudgments.

Here's the complaint filed by prosecutors last Thursday alleging a multi-city prostitution ring. There are links to the Gambino crime family.

WNBC reports that investigators possess text messages showing Spitzer trying to arrange liaisons with unnamed persons.

Here's a link to the cached Emporers' Club VIP website, which has been taken down.

The first sign that something was up: three of the four public corruption AUSAs in the SDNY were involved in the case.

Ben Smith will be a muster must-read than usual today.

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