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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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FBI's Private Search Technology Can Be Yours For The Low Price Off...

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 30 2009, 2:20 PM ET Comment

The company that sold to the FBI a bundle of technology that allows the agency to sift and sort through reams of data is now selling a version of that software to the public. The company, Chiliad, boasts that the FBI's counterterrorism database is searched 50,000 times a day, contains billions of static pages and is dynamically linked to 200 other search engines. 

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