Marc Ambinder is the politics editor for The Atlantic, where he curates the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributes to the magazine. He is also a contributing editor to National Journal and chief political consultant to CBS News.

At the 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,"

In 2009, he was part of the team was awarded the Columbia University School of Journalism's Dupont Silver Baton for Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin. At ABC News, his work included Emmy-nominated research for "This Week." The Politics site has been nominated for a Webby and has won several national awards, including the Golden Dot from George Washington University's Democracy Online project.

He covers politics, policy, national security and science.

Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, he's a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.

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Killercop

1 year ago in reply to mildbrew

You have not earned the right to question US. However, if you let me and a bunch of others threaten and racially slur you, then unlawfully raid your home and steal your files, falsely accuse and defame you thereafter for daring to continue to expose these crimes being covered up, then let me and those same people selectively arrest you, do a little torture on you, fly you into an area wherein the entire district is against you for your lawful speech, deny you any conditions of bail, keep you without a "speedy" trial for almost two years, then force conflicted counsel on you over your objections, deny you the right to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation, deny you any due process in a secret hearing, and thereafter use this secret hearing to justify sending you off to see a doctor to mentally "treat" you, let me force more counsel when you finally learn of the secret hearing many months later, then for good measure I'll deny you any assistance of counsel when he learns about what happened and quits, then I'll hold a kangaroo court to find you guilty, then give you an illegal sentence, then let me deny you due process at the sentencing hearing, let me steer your only appeal to a good perverted friend with bad judgement just to make sure it's rigged good and plenty, whom will in turn then force more conflicted counsel on you on your only appeal, while we sit back and put words into his conflicted mouth and watch him admit you're guiilty, which we all know, and he knows, you've denied for 5 years,. then you will be allowed to complain, but it will be futile because we will say it is all far too complex and too complicated to understand what you are saying without an expert to translate for us. After all, who knows where these things are routed.

If you care to submit to that jurisdiction, then maybe, just maybe, you have earned the right to sit in judgment of US.

And for the record, I am not a bitter American. This is what bitter looks like...

interanon

1 year ago in reply to Killercop

"You have not earned the right to question US."

Dumbest statement ever. As a human EVERYONE has a right to question the US. This is why we are digging ourselves out of an international hole created by eight years of isolationism and Imperialism.

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CopKiller

1 year ago in reply to Killercop

Well, for a girl who's not bitter, you sure do a pretty good imitation of one. You are just the sort of woman who makes me ashamed to be a member of your race. The human race, I mean.

Honey, take your crying elsewhere. And stop it with all the phony links to an attack website, too.

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PervertedJustice

1 year ago in reply to Killercop

Ignore the two comments above to you, I enjoyed your articles. Especially about the Disinformation. Example: The previous comment that you are a girl. Or calling your website an "attack website." Watch out they don't label you a gang member! LOL For the record, I really enjoyed the COINTEL from the other comment, that "EVERYONE has a right to question the US." Well, you can ask a question alright, but they will ignore you, just like they ignore the law and their Oaths.Sorry to read about what Tom and his cronies in the Department of Injustice did to you and your family. Great site!

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cagilbert

1 year ago in reply to Killercop

Clicking on any of the links in the message I'm replying to produce:

Reported Attack Site!

This web site at www.killercop.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.

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PervertedJustice

1 year ago in reply to Killercop

It was reported at an "attack website" because the U.S. government will stop at next to nothing to silence the voices of the site. The site has already being through a full investigation by the L.A.P.D., the Sheriff's Department High Tech Crime Division, the F.B.I. and the Justice Department. No crimes by the owner...but lots of crimes done to him.

You said, and I quote, "Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system."

"Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners."

The site was a victim of the latter, but it's clean. Except for the corruption inside.

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