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8:00 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 …
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.
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:
David Stout / New York Times:
C.I.A. Director Porter Goss Resigns  —  WASHINGTON, May 5 — Porter J. Goss abruptly resigned today as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a post that had been diminished in the restructuring of the intelligence bureaucracy after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Mac Ranger / Macsmind:
Mission Accomplished  —  No matter what you hear, Goss came, he saw, he conquered.
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
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.
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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
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Time to smear the latest Bush critic  —  Yesterday, Ray McGovern — an American citizen with a 27-year career as a CIA analyst behind him — stood up at a speech given by Donald Rumsfeld and aggressively questioned Rumsfeld on various statements Rumsfeld made regarding Iraq.
Michael Kinsley / Slate:
Sign Language  —  Why does the press hold Bush to one constitutional standard and itself to another?  —  If there is anything scarier than a president who thinks he is above the law, it is a president who thinks that journalists aren't.  That is the combined message from two major newspapers this week.
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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 …
TCS Daily:
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 …
Doug Struck / Washington Post:
Climate Change Drives Disease To New Territory  —  Viruses Moving North to Areas Unprepared for Them, Experts Say  —  TORONTO — Valere Rommelaere, 82, survived the D-Day invasion in Normandy, but not a mosquito bite.  Six decades after the war, the hardy Saskatchewan farmer was bitten …
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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