According to the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Bush Administration. This from Reuters:

The Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee blamed the White House and Pentagon on Sunday for resisting intelligence reform and gave the U.S. Congress a failing grade for not passing legislation.

Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas also cited turf battles and unwarranted concerns that proposed changes would somehow harm military operations during a time of war.

"There's been a lot of opposition to this from the first," Roberts said on the "Fox News Sunday" program. "Some of it is from the Pentagon. Some of it, quite frankly, is from the White House, despite what the president has said."

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Concern that intelligence reform would endanger military efforts during wartime was "a false claim," Roberts said.

"I don't think it was only House Republicans. I think some of us who have been working for reform perhaps underestimated the strong undertow of opposition to this and support for status quo," he said.

"And so you put all those factors together, and unfortunately intelligence reform went down. And as far as I'm concerned, Congress gets a big fat 'F' in regards to that effort," Roberts said.

Remind me again, who's in control of Congress right now? The Democrats must hold the GOP's feet over the fire on this issue and push for real change. As I've said before, it comes down to five words:

Government accountability and fiscal responsibility

[Update 7:52 PM Pacific]: The New York Times' reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg analyzes the story, asking the right question:

In the afterglow of his re-election, President Bush declared that he had ''earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." But the capital that he put on the line was not enough this weekend, when recalcitrant House conservatives refused to back an intelligence bill for which he had personally lobbied.

The compromise bill unraveled when two influential Republican House committee chairmen, Representatives Duncan Hunter of California and F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin, would not support it. At a time when Republicans control the White House and both houses of Congress, the outcome raises questions about how much power the president has on Capitol Hill and how he intends to exert it in a second term.

Did Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, who called both chairmen in an attempt to turn them around, press as hard for the measure as they led the public to believe? Or are Mr. Hunter and Mr. Sensenbrenner so powerful that they can embarrass Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois - who negotiated the bill, then declined to bring it up for a vote when the chairmen balked - and thwart the will of the president?

"I don't think it was only House Republicans," Senator Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas and head of the Intelligence Committee, told Fox News on Sunday. Mr. Roberts added: "There's been a lot of opposition to this from the first. Some of it is turf, you know, quite frankly. Some of it is from the Pentagon. Some of it, quite frankly, is from the White House, despite what the president has said."