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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.

Marc's Three More Clicks: Franken V. Coleman, CIA Tech, Etc.

By Marc Ambinder
Jun 1 2009, 10:20 AM ET Comment

Sometimes, six clicks aren't enough. Be sure to check out:

Rick Hasen liveblogging the Minnesota Supreme Court for oral arguments in Franken V. Coleman.

Robert J. Samuelson's argument on The Obama Infatuation. In essense: the country is too preoccupied with Obama's historicity and personal charm to apply the level of skepticism that is necessary for a functioning democracy. His culprit: the media.

A Guardian story about the CIA using electronic targeting chips to attack Al Q and Taliban forces in Pakistan. They're giving the chips to friendly tribesman and asking them to  plant them near Al Qaeda safehouses. Problem: sometimes, the tribesman are planting them at the homes of enemy tribesmen.  Folks there fear that the "parthai" are invitations for CIA drones....





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