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Undated: Daniel
Ray Coats (born May 16, 1943) is an American
politician and former diplomat. Since 16 March 2017, he has served as the
Director of National Intelligence in the
Trump Administration. A member of the
Republican Party, he previously served as a
United States Senator from
Indiana from
1989 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. He was the
United States Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005, and was a member of
the
United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats served on
the
United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence while in the U.S.
Senate.
After retiring from the Senate, Coats served as the
U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2005 and then worked as a lobbyist
in Washington, D.C. He was reelected to the Senate by a large margin in 2010,
succeeding Bayh, who announced his own retirement shortly after Coats declared
his candidacy. Coats declined to run for reelection in 2016 and was succeeded by
Todd Young.
On January 5, 2017, Coats was announced as U.S. President-elect
Donald
Trump's nominee for the post of
Director of National Intelligence, to succeed
James R. Clapper.[1]
His term in office commenced on March 16, 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats
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January 29: The
nation’s intelligence chief contradicted President Trump’s statements on North
Korea, Syria and Russia while addressing the Senate on Tuesday, arguing that
ISIS continues to pose a threat to the United States despite the
Administration’s claims that it has been defeated.
Director of U.S. National Intelligence Dan Coats released the results of the
Worldwide Threat Assessment, which describes the biggest international dangers
facing the United States, and told lawmakers during the Senate hearing that the
U.S. must “keep our eyes on” ISIS.
Coats also appeared to contradict Trump’s statements about the threat posed by
North Korea. Last June, Trump tweeted that there is “No longer a Nuclear Threat
from North Korea.”
http://time.com/5515473/trump-coats-senate/
January 30:
Trump singled out Dan Coats in morning rant about
intelligence community
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/politics/trump-dan-coats-rant/index.html
February 1:
When Dan Coats was tapped by President Donald Trump to be his intelligence
director, some of the Indiana Republican's former Senate colleagues wondered if
he was too nice for the job.
“I’m not sure likeability and affability are the qualities I want in this
position,” Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, told Coats at his
confirmation hearing. "You’re going to be reporting to a president who may
or may not want to hear what you have to say.”
That turned out to be an understatement.
"They are wrong!" Trump
tweeted Wednesday, after Coats and other leaders of the intelligence
services backed differing views of the president's on Iran and North Korea when
testifying before Congress this week.
Trump
backtracked Thursday, accusing the news media of incorrectly describing the
testimony, after initially telling reporters that time will prove him right and
his intelligence leaders wrong.
That's become a familiar pattern.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/01/trumps-rips-intel-naive-crossing-swords-dni-coats-again/2737141002/
February 20:
Talk grows that Trump will fire Dan Coats
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/430787-talk-grows-that-trump-will-fire-dan-coats
February 20:
Members of Congress voice alarm about report that Trump has grown frustrated
with Coats
Several Republican and Democratic lawmakers threw their support Wednesday behind
Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, who some administration
officials worry may soon be dismissed from his position by President Trump.
The Washington Post
reported Tuesday that, according to people familiar with the matter, Trump
has become frustrated with Coats over public statements that the president views
as undercutting his policy goals.
In an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon, Trump
said he was not thinking about removing Coats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/members-of-congress-voice-alarm-about-report-that-trump-has-grown-frustrated-with-coats/2019/02/20/711ab080-353c-11e9-a400-e481bf264fdc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3d2b21a7b359
February 21:
The Impossible Job of Speaking Truth to Trump
How do you offer intelligence to a president who’s not interested—and keep your
job?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/dan-coats-tells-trump-truth-what-cost/583198/
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March 26:
Mike Pence talked Dan Coats out of quitting the Trump
administration
Whenever Trump is souring on Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whom
he calls "Mister Rogers," Pence encourages him to stick with Coats.
Among the tensions the officials said have marred the relationship between the
president and
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Trump pushed Coats to find
evidence that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him; he demanded Coats
publicly criticize the U.S. intelligence community as biased; and he accused
Coats of being behind leaks of classified information. More recently Trump also
fumed to aides after Coats publicly defended the importance of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization in countering
Russia's aggression, officials said.
But the tipping point for
Coats came in December with Trump's abrupt decision to withdraw all U.S.
troops from Syria, and the contentious departure of former Defense Secretary
James Mattis after protesting the policy, according to the current and former
officials. The vice president, who has repeatedly played the role of envoy
between Trump and Coats, convinced his longtime Indiana friend to stay until at
least this summer, the officials said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096
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