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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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2,083 FISA Court Wiretaps Approved In 2008

By Marc Ambinder

May 15 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

According to the Department of Justice, 2,083 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court-approved wiretaps were put into service in 2008. Only one government application was denied, and two requests were modified. In 2008, the FISC approved more than 2,300 wiretaps but insisted on modifications to 86 requests.  More info is here.




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