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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 …
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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.
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.
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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 …
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Washington Post:
Rep. Kennedy's Car Crashes Near Capitol — Officers Accuse Supervisors of Preventing Thorough Investigation — Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy crashed his car into a security barrier near the Capitol early yesterday, and officers at the scene suspected that he might have been intoxicated, a police union official said.
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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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.
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:
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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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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
RUMSFELD'S FOLLY — Donald Rumsfeld told a bald faced lie yesterday. In the process of telling the lie, the Secretary of Defense showed that public officials still don't get it, that with the advent of the internet and its powerful search engines, every utterance made in public yesterday …
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.
New York Times:
Memorial Cost at Ground Zero Nears $1 Billion — The projected cost of building the World Trade Center memorial complex at ground zero has soared to nearly $1 billion, according to the most authoritative estimate to date. — Rebuilding officials concede that the new price tag is breathtaking …
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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 …
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.
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.
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Senate Defies Bush on Spending — $109 Billion Bill for Wars, Storm Relief Disdained in House — The Senate ignored President Bush's veto threat yesterday and easily passed a $109 billion emergency spending bill for war and hurricane recovery costs that also brimmed with favors for farmers …
Colleen O'Boyle / Media Research Center:
Hiding Good News — During the Clinton years, network journalists argued (correctly) that strong economic growth, a rising stock market, low unemployment and low inflation were the benchmark indicators of a good economy. Today, economic growth is a phenomenal 4.8 percent …