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8:45 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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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 …
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 …
CNN:
Porter Goss resigns as CIA chief  —  'I honestly believe that we have improved dramatically,' he says  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — CIA Director Porter Goss is resigning, President Bush announced Friday.  —  "Porter's tenure at the CIA was one of transition, where he's helped this agency become integrated …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
BREAKING: Porter Goss resigns as DCI  —  Fox is reporting.... Obvious question is what this means for the administration's anti-leak initiative.  —  Update: Could frustration with the CIA's diminishing influence over intelligence have led Goss to quit?  Time magazine had this to say in a piece published online only three hours ago:
Mac Ranger / Macsmind:
Mission Accomplished  —  No matter what you hear, Goss came, he saw, he conquered.  This isn't a "staff change", it has nothing to do with Rove.  It was understood when he came in what he was coming in for.  He did what he came to do.  —  He swept, now others will collect the dust.
Liza Porteus / Fox News:
CIA Chief Porter Goss Resigns
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Source: CIA Director Goss Resigns
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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.
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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.
Dave Wedge / Boston Herald:
Pat cites pills in car wreck
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Never Again?  —  When something happens for the first time in 1,871 years, it is worth noting.  In A.D. 70, and again in 135, the Roman Empire brutally put down Jewish revolts in Judea, destroying Jerusalem, killing hundreds of thousands of Jews and sending hundreds of thousands more into slavery and exile.
Jerome Taylor / Independent:
Iraqi police 'killed 14-year-old boy for being homosexual'  —  Human rights groups have condemned the "barbaric" murder of a 14-year-old boy, who, according to witnesses, was shot on his doorstep by Iraqi police for the apparent crime of being gay.  —  Ahmed Khalil was shot at point-blank range …
 
 
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