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12:10 AM ET, May 6, 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 …
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 …
Time:
The Next Head of the CIA?  —  EXCLUSIVE: Air Force General Michael Hayden is likely to be named Porter Goss's successor.  Then the partisan fireworks will really begin  —  President George W. Bush stunned Washington on Friday by accepting the resignation of CIA Director Porter J. Goss …
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 …
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.
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
David Stout / New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Porter Goss Resigns
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In From the Cold:
Goss Steps Down  —  This may be administration spin, or …
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Associated Press:   Source: CIA Director Goss Resigns
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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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.
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.
CNN:
Rep. Kennedy entering rehab after crash  —  Capitol Police: Initial probe of incident 'improper'  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy said Friday that he will enter a rehabilitation program after crashing his car on Capitol Hill a day earlier.
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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Poll: Conservatives Cutting Approval Rates  —  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.  —  Six months out …
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 …
Juan / Informed Comment:
Cole/Weisberg Correspondence on Hitchens  —  With Mr. Weisberg's permission, I am posting our correspondence on the Hitchens hatchet job on me in Slate earlier this week.  —  From: Jacob Weisberg  —  Sent: Thu 5/4/2006 6:15 PM  —  To: Cole, Juan  —  Subject: RE: Forwarded from Weisberg
 
 
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