There is no statutory requirement to inform Reid about anything related to surveillance. Zero. The fact that he heard about it "in the last few months" is irrelevant to anything.
Pelosi, on the other hand, has been on the House Intel Committee for the last 10 years (longest in history) and was thus in a position to be informed as a direct statutory requirement of 50 USC 1802. She would have heard about it in late-2001/early-2002.
Pelosi is revealing/acknowledging classified information she learned in her legal capacity as a member of the House Intel Committee. That's wrong, even if the NYT reported it.
Nancy Pelosi is just plain wrong!
(Further evidence that cousins shouldn't marry cousins.)