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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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Just Asking....

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 24 2009, 12:24 PM ET Comment

Why was Dennis Ross's appointment as U.S. envoy announced not at a formal event but in a statement from the acting state department press secretary? Since Ross's portfolio includes Iran, more ceremony would have been expected, no? And why the long delay between the leak of the pending appointment and the appointment itself? Are the various State envoys experiencing envy about each other's portfolio?

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