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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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Revealed: Rahm Emanuel's Secret Service Code Name

By Marc Ambinder

May 14 2009, 12:10 PM ET Comment

It's not Rambo.

It doesn't even begin with an "R," like members of the first family (Renegade, Renaissance, Radiance, Rosebud.) 

According to... well, I can't really say to whom, but Rahm Emanuel's code name is "Black Hawk."

The Secret Service allows its protectees to choose the code name used by its agents, but Rahm's was assigned to him during the Democratic National Convention, and he decided not to change it.

All other code names are assigned by the White House Military Office (through the White House Communications Agency. 


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