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Ambinder received a Bachelor of Arts from in 2001.
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He is editor-at-large of The Week, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. Until December 31, 2011 Ambinder was the White House correspondent at the National Journal. He previously worked at American Broadcasting Company News and was chief political consultant to Columbia Broadcasting System News from 2008 to 2011.
Foreign years, he was the author of an influential political blog, The Hotline.
Though presidential politics and Washington have been his primary beats, he also writes about intelligence and national security, and has broken several stories, including details about the raid on Osama bin Laden. His first book, "The Command: Inside The President"s Secret Army," is an examination of the secretive Joint Special Operations Command.
He secured access to the protective details of the Secret Service, broke stories about dangerous computer failures that jeopardized America’s nuclear arsenal, probed Pakistan’s fragile intelligence services, and became an authority on national security topics ranging from the National Security Agency and surveillance to the government’s secret commando force to its secretive continuity of government plans. He has written for the New York Times, the New Yorker, Washington Post, Vice, and numerous national magazines.
He has been a consulting producer and on-air expert for documentaries about special operations forces, the Secret Service and government doomsday plans.
He has been a guest on every national television news network in the United States., on the British Broadcasting Corporation, on First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera International and was a regular analyst on politics for Columbia Broadcasting System News Radio. In July 2009, Ambinder struck a deal with Hillary Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines to provide positive remarks on Clinton in exchange for receiving an advance copy of a Clinton speech. Ambinder later said he regretted making the deal.
In 2010 Ambinder wrote about his experience with bariatric surgery, which reduced his weight from 235 to 150 pounds.
