WASHINGTON - House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi has chosen a Border Patrol agent-turned-congressman to lead the House Intelligence Committee, ending weeks of Democratic debate about who will oversee the nation’s spy agencies.

Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, takes over the key post next year, as his party tries to intensify oversight of the intelligence community. Critics say Republicans failed to do that, leading to faulty prewar intelligence on Iraq and other stumbles.

In doing so Pelosi snubbed the Blue Dog coalition, who had written her a letter endorsing Jane Harmon, the ranking member, to lead the Intel Committee.  Between this and the Murtha episode I think it would behoove Speaker-to-be Pelosi to wake up and realize that her party shifted right on November 7th.  The Blue Dog Coalition is more important than ever and should not be spurned.

• Murtha too corrupt for House leadership
• Incoming Intel Chairman is Ignorant
• “Cut and Run” or “Stay and Pay”
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• The federal government is not the federal government

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