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6:35 PM ET, May 5, 2006

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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 …
Associated Press:
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.
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 …
Liza Porteus / Fox News:   CIA Chief Porter Goss Resigns
Associated Press:
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.
Discussion: Leaning Straight Up
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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.
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.
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:
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.
CNN:
Rep. Kennedy entering rehab after crash
Discussion: Andrew Sullivan
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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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.
Associated Press:
WC: United States team bus to show no flag  —  FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) - The official team bus to be used by the United States during the World Cup will not bear a flag for security reasons.  —  The 32 official buses were presented Thursday in Frankfurt and the other 31 buses have large national flags …
 
 
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