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Welcome again to the Monday morning news kick off. For those of you who attended the ESRI User Conference last week, we hope you had a restful weekend and recovered from what was a most-excellent event. Speaking of ESRI, we are providing a link to Directions Magazine’s analysis of the event. Oh, and we have plenty of political and hard-news stories that impact what we do. So, as always, grab that cup of coffee, scroll down and be prepared for the most productive week of your life.

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The political battlefield is heating up surrounding the disclosure that former Vice President Dick Cheney did not disclose a secret counterterrorism program with Congress. Here’s the latest, Pelosi and House Democrats are pushing ahead with plans to hold a series of hearings investigating instances in which intelligence officials may have misled members of Congress. Although, this Op-Ed by Newt Gingrich came out on July 10, it mirrors a key message being touted by the Republicans: Democrats are playing politics with our national security.

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Welcome once again to the Monday morning news kick off. We hope everyone had a restful weekend. As many of us were en-route to San Diego this weekend for what will be a most exciting ESRI International User Conference (stay tuned for more ESRI coverage), we wanted to catch up on the latest news headlines from the past few days. And, wow, there is plenty of news going around — especially when it comes to Dick Cheney. There were some revelations this weekend that he hid mysterious counter-terrorism campaigns from law makers on the Hill. Surprising? No. Scroll down for more news you can use.

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In his second ever veto threat, President Obama has threatened to veto a Democratic-backed bill that expand the number of lawmakers who can be briefed by the White House on covert national security operations. The White House Office of Management and Budget issued a statement yesterday (below) that said it does support many provisions in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 The bill is currently making its way through the House. But it had “serious concerns with a number of provisions that would impede the smooth and efficient functioning” of the intelligence community.

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Our reader may recall our coverage last month — thank you all for the colorful comments — of the showdown between the C.I.A. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over what she knew about C.I.A. interrogation techniques. Well, it seems that as a result there has been some backlash: her popularity has plummeted. According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, only 38 percent of Americans approve of Pelosi’s performance as speaker, while 45 percent disapprove of her performance — the lowest approval rating Pelosi has received in the Post/ABC poll. What do you all think? Do you think the dip in approval had to do with her dust-up with the C.I.A.? It certainly did not help!

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Now that we have had a couple of days to rest up and recover from GEOINT Tech Days (Wow, that GEOINT Tech Days Gala was quite an evening on many levels.), we are ready to dive back into covering the latest and greatest news from the defense and intelligence world. So, essentially we are making up for last week and focusing on news stories that impact what we do and, hopefully, provide the actionable intelligence you need to kick off the week. This week’s installment of the “Monday Morning News Kick Off” post includes everything from Philip Mudd withdrawing his name as DHS intelligence chief to an update on the “Cyber Olympics.” Scoll down to read more.

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Welcome to the Monday Morning News Kick Off only on got geoint? While there was plenty of news happening over the weekend, the big story that kept rising to the was Nancy Pelosi and her tussle with the intelligence community. We opted to pull together a number stories on this topic, and ask our readers to weigh in with an opinion. Scroll down to learn more about how she was conspicuously absent from the talk show circuit this weekend, and, wow, her critics came out guns-a-blazing. Scroll down and happy Monday!

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