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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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Manna

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 8 2009, 4:38 PM ET Comment

Hundreds of heretofore unreleased Congressional Research Service reports on virtually every topic of concern to everyone. Wikileaks got their hands on them. Why is this manna? Because the CRS doesn't release reports to the public, and Congress releases them selectively. 

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