I haven't seen any update on this from two weeks ago, Protecting agencies from oversight, Obama threatens to veto intelligence funding "The 2010 Intelligence Budget has gone through a number of key changes over the past few months, with House Democrats and the Obama administration butting heads over a number of provisions. Key among them for the latest White House veto threat is a provision that would allow the Government Accountability Office to investigate intelligence agencies."
"In its' present form, the 2010 Intelligence Budget would also significantly revise the "Gang of Eight" requirement, under which the president informs key members of Congress about ongoing covert activities. As a reaction to the Bush administration's secrecy over its' massive electronic spying program, Congress last year approved the revisions that would allow House and Senate intelligence committees to write their own rules on who is told what. "
I like that last bit. As I understood it, the who committee wasn't informed just the top four members of each party of each chamber. If they didn't like something, they couldn't do anything about it because to tell the rest of the committee was an intelligence leak.
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