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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.

The Most Revealing #Wookieleaks

By Marc Ambinder
Jul 28 2010, 6:12 PM ET Comment

Perhaps the best hashtag ever, but who has time to read all those 90,000 #wookieleaks tweets? My own contribution was: "I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this E3 PFC." But that's not very funny. So here are the top ten, as judged by me:

1. Despite billions invested on construction of an untested defense system, the new Death Star may not yet be fully operational.  @tcarmody)

2. We're never going to be able to do planet-building on a place like Endor. %$#@ing backwards Ewoks don't even want us there.(@abumuqawama)

3.Protocol droid fluent in 6 mil languages discharged for violating DADT. (@daudig) 4. "Professional" rebel fighters cannot figure out whether it's a trap, a walking calamari had to tell them (@FrancescoPoli)

5. Trillions in Imperial war funds have been ending up in the pockets of private bounty hunter guilds! Taxpayers got what? (@thebardingreen)

6. Admiral Ackbar emails peppered with casual anti-semitism, anti-jawaism (@ModeledBehavior)


7. Inquiry reveals cantina footage digitally altered; Han Solo discharged weapon first. (@jeffdcohen)


8. The Jedi cult harbors secret beliefs of taking midichlorian readings with e-meters and worshipping the ghosts of Jedi Masters (@petestart)


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