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...After serving nearly 16 years in Congress, much of it on the House Intelligence Committee, Goss eyed Negroponte's job. When the DNI began to take control of the agency that Goss had been named to run, Goss had nowhere to turn. The agency's normally loyal allies on Capitol Hill could not help him fight back because nearly all the lawmakers on the intelligence-oversight committees believed, if anything, that Negroponte wasn't moving fast enough with reform...
...earlier statement issued on Thursday, Kennedy denied consuming alcohol and said that he was under the influence of two medications that had been prescribed to him by the Capitol physician -Phenergan, an antinausea medication, and Ambien, a sleep aid which recent studies have shown may be linked to many car accidents across the country...
...when Rep. Patrick Kennedy, 38, smashed his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill around 2:45 a.m. on Thursday morning, which was first reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call. About 36 hours later Kennedy, a Rhode Island Congressman and the youngest of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's three children with his wife Joan Kennedy, was standing before microphones on Capitol Hill to announce that he was headed to the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota to battle what he said had been a longtime struggle with addiction and depression. He also told the group that he'd been...
...numerous reports are already surfacing that cast some doubt on that explanation. Roll Call quoted a letter from a Capitol Police union official who urged an investigation into whether Kennedy had received preferential treatment. According to the letter, officers approached Kennedy after the crash, in which he reportedly swerved into the wrong lane through a construction zone and nearly hit a police cruiser. After finally coming to a stop, Kennedy allegedly staggered as he got out of his car and appeared intoxicated. The letter charges that the officers were forbidden from performing a sobriety test on Kennedy under orders from...
...White House plans to name his replacement on Monday: Air Force General Michael V. Hayden, who as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence has been a visible and aggressive defender of the administration's controversial eavesdropping program. His nomination is sure to reignite the battle over the program on Capitol Hill, where one House Democrat promises "a partisan food fight" during the confirmation process...