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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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Ask The Blogger: Cheney's Intentions

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 21 2009, 11:48 AM ET Comment

Reader DT:

Do you think Cheney is doing this stuff for legacy purposes or maybe 
because he's thinking of running for Prez in 2012?  He did briefly try 
in 1996.
Despite Bob Woodward's endless provocations, I think Dick Cheney's political career is over.  His re-emergence as the chief defender of the Bush realm is fairly easy to explain: if the American people become convinced that he authorized torture, if historians interpret the present in such an unfavorable way, Cheney will be irredeemable.  The flip side: Cheney takes his views very seriously. He believes that Obama's policies are making the country less safe. No one else -- certainly not that former boss of his -- has the giblits to make the case, and so Cheney will.  I think Cheney is speaking out because he worries about history, he worries about becoming entangled in future legal cases, and because, from his point of view, Obama's policies are troubling.



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