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Monday, May 08, 2006

Porter Goss was CIA director for just two years before he submitted his resignation on Friday. The move followed a massive restructuring of intelligence and harsh criticism over pre-war intelligence. Find out the political implications with Time columnist, Joe Klein. Also, historian Simon Schama looks at the Revolutionary War from the standpoint of the slaves.

Monday Morning Politics

Joe Klein, senior writer at Time Magazine and author, Politics Lost : How American Democracy Was Trivialized By People Who Think You're Stupid (Doubleday, 2006)
-on the reasons behind the resignation of Porter Goss and other news

» Time Magazine

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Simon Schama, professor of art history and history at Columbia University and author, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Ecco, 2006/US)
-offers a new look at Britain, America, slavery and freedom during the Revolutionary War

» Simon Schama at Columbia

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Schama: Re-examining early U.S. history

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Program Director Mikel Ellcessor and Brian making the case for listener supported public radio

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Required reading: May 8, 2006

In which: Republicans wonder about Hayden for CIA, National Guard may lose combat role, City seeks to regulate pedicabs, C-Span sidelines YouTube, state pols woo Bloomberg, Bush demonstrates fishy memory, illegal immigrants urged to name their offspring Lou Dobbs.

In GOP, Doubts Linger Over Bush's CIA Pick (Wash Post)

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