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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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Obama Lashes Back At Cheney

By Marc Ambinder

Mar 21 2009, 2:45 PM ET Comment

In an interview with CBS News's 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama "fires back" at former Vice President Dick Cheney's contention that Obama's proposal to close Gimto will make America less safe, according to excerpts released by CBS today.  "How many terrorists have actually been brought to justice under the philosophy that is being promoted by Vice President Cheney?  It hasn't made us safer.  What it has been is a great advertisement for anti-American sentiment," Obama tells Steve Kroft.

Here's more from CBS:

Pressed by Kroft that some of the released prisoners have returned to terrorist groups, the president said, "There is no doubt that we have not done a particularly effective job in sorting through who are truly dangerous individuals...to make sure [they] are not a threat to us," he says. But he called the Bush administration's policy on detainees at Guantanamo -including long incarcerations with no trials - "unsustainable."


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