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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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Torture Prosecutions Still On The Table

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 21 2009, 11:58 AM ET Comment

At a photo-op just now with King Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdon of Jordan, the President would not rule out a Congressionally-chartered Truth Commission to investigate torture. He also said that his AG -- that would be Eric Holder -- is studying the issue about prosecuting senior officials who deliberately or willfully broke the law when it came to interpreting existing laws about torture.



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