Pelosi Faces Off With Obama On CIA Oversight -- Time Magazine
Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama are unlikely political foes, but the House Speaker is in the middle of an ugly fight with the President — as well as the CIA and powerful House and Senate Democrats and Republicans — about Congress's watchdog powers over the U.S. intelligence services.
Bucking a veto threat by President Obama and overruling a deal cut between the White House, Republicans and two Democratic committee chairmen, House Speaker Pelosi is pushing to dramatically expand Congressional oversight of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. At issue is Congress' ability to monitor the intelligence programs deemed most sensitive and closely held by the executive branch. And the battle is turning into the biggest confrontation yet over executive power between the liberal House Speaker and a White House that has moved steadily to the center on national security matters.
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Update #1: Pelosi's Deadlock Holds Up Intel Czar Nomination -- Newsweek
Update #2: New spy agency chief held up by congressional infighting -- CNN
My Comment: Another example of poor management from the White House. Before firing the previous Intel Czar, all of this groundwork should have been done ... or at least understood among the White House and Congress .... before major changes were done. Unfortunately, the impression that I am receiving is that everything is being done on an ad hoc basis, and the consequences .... well .... they will be worked out later.