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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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Is Richard Holbrooke Ascendent?

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 27 2009, 3:23 PM ET Comment

In their 100 Days chat about Obama's foreign policy, the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg and Robert Kaplan agree that Richard Holbrooke is extending his envoyhood to the entire Near-East (with the exception of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.) Their primary piece of evidence: Holbrooke's just hired a pre-eminent Iran expert, Tuft's Vali Nasr. Does this mean that Dennis Ross is losing power/influence/authority? Goldberg: "This is not to disparage George Mitchell or Dennis Ross in any way, but Richard Holbrooke is a human hurricane, and I wouldn't be surprised if he essentially becomes the off-shore Hillary Clinton."  And Kaplan suggests that Holbrooke will bide his time before "poaching" the Middle East from envoy George Mitchell. 

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