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Marc Ambinder
Marc Ambinder is senior Defense One contributor. A Los-Angeles-based writer who covers national security, Ambinder is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic, GQ, and writes The Compass blog for The Week. He is the author of "Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry," and is working on a history of Cold War nuclear strategy.
Digital Government
Drone was gathering intelligence when it went down in Iran, U.S. officials say
Controllers reportedly lost contact with the prized stealth unmanned aerial drone last week over western Afghanistan.
- By Marc Ambinder
Digital Government
Obama to issue executive order on classified info, after WikiLeaks
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- By Marc Ambinder
Cybersecurity
Top cybersecurity official at DHS resigns
Phil Reitinger, the pointman on cybercrime at Homeland Security, decides it's time to move on.
- By Marc Ambinder
Digital Government
Capitol Police radios still not encrypted
A long-standing security lapse is noted in the wake of the Giffords shooting.
- By Marc Ambinder
Digital Government
White House press secretary tweets his public
The White House press secretary mostly avoided the tough questions.
- By Marc Ambinder
Digital Government
WikiLeaks did 'significant damage' to diplomacy, State official says
State's assessment of disclosure of classified cables differs starkly from comments made by Defense secretary.
- By Marc Ambinder
Digital Government
WikiLeaks: One analyst, so many documents
How could Bradley Manning alone have leaked so much classified material?
- By Marc Ambinder