The departure of two top officials has set off alarms in Washington
his confidants that their disagreements wore on him. “It’s time for a change. Dan’s a great guy but the president doesn't listen to him anymore,” a source told Axios in mid-July.
Indeed, Trump reportedly floated eliminating the office altogether, viewing it as an “unnecessary bureaucratic layer.” When advisers told him this was impossible, he apparently expressed his desire to “downsize” the office instead—a goal he now seems to be accomplishing in real time. At the very least, Trump’s pick to replace Coats, which he also announced on Thursday, has some familiarity with the job. The choice ofthe current director of the National Counterterrorism Center and a retired Navy admiral, came as a “relief,” sources told the“He’s not a career intelligence officer, but he does understand the role that the men and women of the intelligence community play and will represent them well,” a former senior intelligence official told the outlet.
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