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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.

Remainders: What You're Missing On A Rainy Friday

By Marc Ambinder
Oct 16 2009, 3:54 PM ET Comment

The NSA is collecting so much data that a new number might have to be invented to describe the size of its database. (NY Review)

Binyan Mohamed torture documentation might soon be released to journalists. The UK government will appeal. The docs could shed light on how MI6 was complicit with the CIA in facilitating the torture of detainees. (The Telegraph)

More good news for Democrats on health care: the CBO score of two of the three House bills ends up at $905 billion or less. (Washington Post)

New HELP committee chairman Tom Harkin says the final Senate bill will include a public option. (TWI)

Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN) is speaking to the Western CPAC convention in Newport Beach (Orange County!) California. (TPM)

The Department of Homeland Security has no INTENTION of reading your e-mail. Capability? They'll have that. (NextGov)

Telecom immunity docs might soon be released, sans the names of the companies in question. (Politico)


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