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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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Here Are The Torture Memos

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 16 2009, 3:52 PM ET Comment

http://72.3.233.244/pdfs/safefree/olc_08012002_bybee.pdf   --  a Top Secret memo by OLC's Jay Bybee to CIA counsel John Rizzo about torture techniques used on Abu Zubaydah, August 1, 2001.

http://72.3.233.244/pdfs/safefree/olc_05102005_bradbury46pg.pdf -- a Top Secret/SCI memo from the OLC's Steven Bradbury to Rizzo about waterboarding and other techniques, 1995

http://72.3.233.244/pdfs/safefree/olc_05102005_bradbury_20pg.pdf -- a Top Secret/SCI memo from Bradbury describing the techniques that could be used in combination with each other.



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