Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats stepped down Sunday after more than two years of repeatedly clashing with President Trump on key national security claims. Trump tweeted his decision to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to replace Coats.
Ratcliffe, 53, played a prominent role in last week’s House hearing featuring former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. The third-term lawmakerMueller as having violated “every principle and the most sacred traditions” of prosecutors by including in his report “potential crimes that were not charged.”
Coats’s deputy, Sue Gordon, praised his performance as a non-political intelligence chief in a July podcast with former Deputy CIA Director Michael Morrell. In July 2018, Coats criticized Trump’s decision to meet alone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, saying at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado soon after that, “I would have suggested a different way, but that’s not my role, that’s not my job. So it is what it is.”
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