The House Intelligence panel is worried about emerging threats in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Mexico, and thinks spy agencies are behind in addressing cybersecurity, diversity and foreign language training, according to a committee report released Monday.

The Democrat-controlled committee approved a fiscal 2010 intelligence authorization bill June 18 behind closed doors. The bill and committee report are made public later in accordance with the panel’s procedures. Republicans, meanwhile, bristled in their section of the report at what they said was poor Obama administration consultation with Congress on intelligence matters such as the transfer of detainees from Guantánamo Bay and the release of previously secret documents on Bush administration interrogation policies.

One of the major provisions of the bill would eliminate the executive branch’s right to control when the full intelligence panels are briefed as opposed to more limited “Gang of Eight” briefings for panel and congressional leaders. That language was the subject of a major dispute between the Democrats and Republicans.

On Afghanistan and Pakistan, the report states that “the committee notes with increasing concern that both the political and military situation in these countries continue to deteriorate.”

The intelligence community needs to improve intelligence cooperation with Mexico and Latin America, the report states, given the region’s importance to U.S. security.

And the report identifies Yemen and Somalia as emerging terrorist safe havens that require an increased focus from spy agencies.

The panel warned that “funding for cybersecurity programs may need to be reduced or slowed until the future direction for cybersecurity is better defined,” and called on the intelligence community to work toward increasing the ethnic diversity of its staff and improving foreign language training.