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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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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 …
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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 …
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.
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
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:BREAKING: Porter Goss resigns as DCI
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In From the Cold:Goss Steps Down — This may be administration spin, or …
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Laura / War and Piece:I hear that when Porter Goss went to meet with Negroponte today …
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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.
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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.
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:
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.
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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.
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.
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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 …
Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
The second ever protein wisdom fundraiser (or, how I learned to stop worrying about begging and love the influx of beautiful greenbacks) — True, I'm no Andrew Sullivan—hell, I'm only about one-third of Oliver Willis, come to think of it (thank you, Smart Balance spread!)
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
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Sudan, Main Rebel Group to Sign Peace Plan — The government of Sudan and the biggest Darfur rebel faction agreed early this morning to strike a peace deal, raising hopes for a breakthrough in the bloody conflict that has left more than 2 million people homeless.
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Lance / Maine Web Report:
Warren Kremer Paino Withdraws Lawsuit — After suffering a week of merciless bludgeoning in the media, Tom McCartin and the rest of Warren Kremer Paino Advertising have withdrawn their lawsuit against me. — click here for the pdf >>> — This will make the Cinqo de Mayo celebration tonight …
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