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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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Just Asking....

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 21 2009, 11:55 AM ET Comment

This past Sunday, why didn't the White House send out National Security Adviser Jim Jones, or CIA director Leon Panetta, or DNI Dennis Blair, or any senior national security official who'd be able to lend some cred to the decision to release the Bush torture memos?  Come to think of it, there _was_ one official who could trump any other: John Brennan, the former CIA deputy executive director, privy to the CIA's decisions as they were made, now Obama's chief counterrorism adviser.  Where's Brennan? Why hasn't the administration used him as a surrogate/validator for this decision?



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