CQ Politics | Balance of Power – A Stumble on the Road to More Open Intelligence Briefings

For a president who promised to create “a new era of openness,� Barack Obama sure is putting up a fight against a House proposal to open up intelligence briefings to lawmakers. But his veto threat against the bill is also a sign that maybe — just maybe — the chairman of the House intelligence committee could have spent a little more time talking through the proposal with the Obama administration.