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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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Consultant Who Brokered McChrystal's Interview Resigns

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 22 2010, 8:10 AM ET Comment

Duncan Boothby, the civilian Pentagon consultant who brokered Gen. Stanley McChrystal's interview with Rolling Stone, has resigned, according to two officials. 

Boothby, a one-time stage actor, has served as an image consultant to several of the Pentagon's top generals, including Gen. David Petraeus, now of Central Command, when Petraeus was attempting to sell the Iraq "surge" to the American people. 

He has been assisting McChrystal on and off for a while now and is well respected inside the Defense Department.

Boothby's billet was generated by the Pentagon, and not by McChrystal's staff directly. 

It is not clear who's been paying Boothby's "strategic communications" contract -- the Office of the Secretary of Defense? The Joint Chiefs? Centcom? The Army? 


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