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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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Acid From The Sky, Violence In the Streets

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 20 2009, 1:02 PM ET Comment

Andrew, Patrick and Chris are giving up their weekend so you can follow the unfolding events in Iran. There's no better place on the web right now.

Some highlights from their coverage:

11.40 am. Mousavi: I Am Ready For Death.

11.24 am. Chemical warfare? It is not boiling water but something else:

Helicopters spraying water with agent in it onto crowds. Skin irritant, will make it feel as though water is scalding.


I cannot make an Int. call to contact anyone outside of Tehran. Mazandaran, Guilan and Golestan seem worse than Tehran.



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