Marc Ambinder

The Week

Guest

Editor-at-Large of The Week, contributing editor at the Atlantic and co-author of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry; former White House correspondent for the National Journal

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For more than a year, reporters have been poring over the vast trove of National Security Agency files made public by Edward Snowden.

Will the Latest NSA Revelations Lead to Reform?

For more than a year, reporters have been poring over the vast trove of National Security Agency files made public by Edward Snowden.

from To the Point

PFC Bradley Manning has pled guilty to releasing 700,000 classified documents, which WikiLeaks then published on the Internet — the largest intelligence breach in American history.

The Trial of Bradley Manning for WikiLeaks Leaks

PFC Bradley Manning has pled guilty to releasing 700,000 classified documents, which WikiLeaks then published on the Internet — the largest intelligence breach in American history.

from To the Point

A photograph from the Obama White House shows the President, Vice President, Secretaries of State and Defense, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other aides watching in rapt…

JSOC and the Killing of Osama bin Laden

A photograph from the Obama White House shows the President, Vice President, Secretaries of State and Defense, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other aides watching in rapt…

from Which Way, L.A.?

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A private lab in Southern California says it’ll still take another two months before we know the extent of the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S.

from To the Point

When the president downplays a pandemic or implies aid to states are being withheld until governors say nice things about him, can he be sued?

from LRC Presents: All the President's Lawyers

President Trump signs a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill at the end of a very dramatic week.

from Left, Right & Center

How are Angelenos who rely on buses and trains feeling about coronavirus? What are LA Metro officials doing to ensure that passengers are safe?

from Greater LA

The U.S. response to the international criminal court’s decision to permit an investigation into the Afghanistan War highlights the profound danger America poses to the world.

from Scheer Intelligence

It’s not enough, and it’s too late.

from Left, Right & Center

With many people staying at home due to coronavirus, our apartments and houses have become work spaces, classrooms, gyms.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Former City Councilman Mitchell Englander has pleaded not guilty to obstructing an FBI investigation into him accepting cash, female escort services, hotel rooms, and expensive meals…

from KCRW Features

N ew York is calling on health care workers from all over to come help with the flood of coronavirus patients.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand