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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.

Feingold Wants Policymakers Prosecuted

By Marc Ambinder
Apr 17 2009, 4:59 PM ET Comment

From an interview with the editorial board of the Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter in Manitowoc, WI, Sen. Russ Feingold: 

"I understand that the president believes that the people who actually administered these tactics should be immune.  I'm not sure about that. I understand that they have a greater argument than those who created the policies.  But those who created these legal theories, knowing full well that there was not a reasonable argument, I'm not so sure they shouldn't be accountable.  I don't see how we as a country say oh fine we knew this was against international law, we knew it was against our own laws, and these people can come up with any phony legal opinion they want.  I've read these opinions because I'm on the intelligence committee and had access to them much earlier than the public.  These arguments are bogus.."


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