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Jennifer Loven / Associated Press:
CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns — WASHINGTON — CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly Friday, leaving behind a spy agency still struggling to recover from the scars of intelligence failures before America's worst terrorist attack and faulty information that formed the U.S. rationale for invading Iraq.
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Timothy J. Burger / Time:
The Incredible Shrinking CIA — Recent moves by Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte have continued to chip away at the spy agency's role — It's more than a bureaucratic battle. Ever since John Negroponte was appointed Director of National Intelligence a year ago and given …
Think Progress:
BREAKING: CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns — UPDATE: AP has the story. — UPDATE II: We've put together a primer on the connection between Goss and the Cunningham scandal: — For more than a decade, Cunningham-linked defense contractor Brent Wilkes curried favor with lawmakers …
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CIA Director Goss resigns — Bush announces departure after short term … MSNBC TV — WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss is resigning, President Bush said Friday. — Bush called Goss' tenure one of transition. "He has led ably," Bush said from the Oval Office.
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CNN:
Porter Goss resigns as CIA chief — WASHINGTON (CNN) — CIA Director Porter Goss is resigning, President Bush announced on Friday. — "Porter's tenure at the CIA was one of transition, where he's helped this agency become integrated into the intelligence community, and that was a tough job …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:BREAKING: Porter Goss resigns as DCI
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Text: Statements From Rep. Patrick Kennedy — Text of statements on Rep. Patrick Kennedy's traffic accident: — ___ — Kennedy's first statement, released by his press secretary: — "I was involved in a traffic incident last night at First and C Street SE near the US Capitol.
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Andrew Miga / Associated Press:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy to Enter Drug Rehab — WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy (news, bio, voting record) said Friday he was entering treatment for addiction to prescription pain medication, a decision made after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol that the congressman said he cannot recall.
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Michelle Malkin:
KENNEDY PRESS CONFERENCE — ***scroll for updates*** — Coming up in seconds. — Rep. Kennedy says "I struggle every day with this disease...the chronic disease of addiction." — Translation: I am changing the subject. — More rough transcription:
New York Times:
Patrick Kennedy Says He'll Seek Help for Addiction — WASHINGTON, May 5 — A day after a minor traffic caused a major stir by raising questions about Representative Patrick J. Kennedy's condition while he was driving, the Congressman announced that he is entering treatment for addiction to prescription medication.
MSNBC:
Rep. Kennedy to enter rehab for addiction — Announcement comes after early morning car crash near Capitol … Today show — WASHINGTON - Rep. Patrick Kennedy will enter rehab for addiction to prescription pain medication Friday evening after a highly publicized car crash near the Capitol.
thesmokinggun.com:
Cops: Kennedy Was Under Influence — Capitol Police report says congressman's eyes watery, speech slurred — MAY 5—Here's the official Capitol Hill Police report on yesterday's early-morning crash involving a disoriented Representative Patrick Kennedy. According to cops …
Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
Pat cites pills in car wreck — WASHINGTON -U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that he had consumed "no alcohol" before he slammed his Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier near his office, but a hostess at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole told the Herald she saw him drinking in the hours before the crash.
Daniel Henninger / Opinion Journal:
'United 93' and the 20th Hijacker — Moussaoui will never rot in prison. — Need an antidote to the Moussaoui verdict? Go out this weekend to see "United 93." — Zacarias Moussaoui is lucky the jurors at his sentencing trial weren't allowed to see the movie "United 93" the day before reaching a verdict.
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New York Times:
Veto? Who Needs a Veto? — One of the abiding curiosities of the Bush administration is that after more than five years in office, the president has yet to issue a veto. No one since Thomas Jefferson has stayed in the White House this long without rejecting a single act of Congress.
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Michael Kinsley / Slate:Sign Language — Why does the press hold Bush to one …
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Why Isn't Socialism Dead? — The President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, celebrated May Day by ordering soldiers to occupy his country's natural gas fields. The purpose of this exercise was not military, but economic: Morales has demanded that all foreign companies currently operating …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Conservatives try to distance themselves from "Bush the liberal" — (updated below) — Yesterday, I referenced an article in National Review by Jonah Goldberg in which Goldberg argued that the two most glaring examples of failed Republican presidents — Richard Nixon and George Bush …
Stephanie Saul / New York Times:
Doctors Object to Gathering of Drug Data — Although virtually unknown to consumers, the information has long been considered the most potent weapon in pharmaceutical sales — computerized dossiers showing which physicians are prescribing what drugs. Armed with such data …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Poll: Bush's Approval Falls to New Low — WASHINGTON - Angry conservatives are driving the approval ratings of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress to dismal new lows, according to an AP-Ipsos poll that underscores why Republicans fear an Election Day massacre.
Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
Watergate Subpoenaed in Hooker Probe — I stopped by the Watergate Hotel this afternoon and chatted with Josh Graham, the assistant general manager, about the recent stories swirling around his establishment. — According to Graham, the Watergate has received multiple subpoenas in connection with the Wilkes Hookergate scandal.
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