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Director of National Intelligence resigns
Coats to step down, Trump tweets, as President says Ratcliffe will be nominated as next director of national intelligence
By Kaitlan Collins, Pamela Brown, Nicole Gaouette, Zachary Cohen and Alex Marquardt, CNN
Washington (CNN)Dan Coats will step down as the director of national intelligence on August 15, President Donald Trump announced Sunday in a tweet, a departure that marks the most recent chapter in Trump's tense and puzzling relationship with the US intelligence community.
Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe, who aggressively questioned former special counsel Robert Mueller last week during Congressional hearings involving his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, will be nominated by the President to replace Coats.
The former senator became director of national intelligence at a difficult time -- for a President who repeatedly made clear his dislike and distrust of intelligence services -- and spent his tenure in the administration at odds with Trump, helming a constellation of over a dozen agencies that the President has publicly mocked, ignored and dismissed. The unsettling dynamic has created one of the more unusual spectacles of Trump's presidency and raised questions about his motivations, particularly as they relate to investigations into possible collusion between Moscow and members of his 2016 presidential campaign.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/politics/dan-coats-national-intelligence-director/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=f003b46203-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_28_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-f003b46203-104928233
By Kaitlan Collins, Pamela Brown, Nicole Gaouette, Zachary Cohen and Alex Marquardt, CNN
Washington (CNN)Dan Coats will step down as the director of national intelligence on August 15, President Donald Trump announced Sunday in a tweet, a departure that marks the most recent chapter in Trump's tense and puzzling relationship with the US intelligence community.
Texas Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe, who aggressively questioned former special counsel Robert Mueller last week during Congressional hearings involving his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, will be nominated by the President to replace Coats.
The former senator became director of national intelligence at a difficult time -- for a President who repeatedly made clear his dislike and distrust of intelligence services -- and spent his tenure in the administration at odds with Trump, helming a constellation of over a dozen agencies that the President has publicly mocked, ignored and dismissed. The unsettling dynamic has created one of the more unusual spectacles of Trump's presidency and raised questions about his motivations, particularly as they relate to investigations into possible collusion between Moscow and members of his 2016 presidential campaign.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/28/politics/dan-coats-national-intelligence-director/index.html?utm_source=CNN+Five+Things&utm_campaign=f003b46203-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_28_08_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6da287d761-f003b46203-104928233
According to The Guardian on Mon 16 Jul 2018
The US-UK relationship is based on intelligence cooperation and a common loyalty born of history, but Britain now has to absorb the fact that the US president is willing to trust the word of a former KGB agent ahead of the consensus of his own intelligence community. The killer quote that will send a chill through western intelligence agencies runs as follows: “I have President Putin, he just said it’s not Russia. I don’t see any reason why it would be.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/16/trump-shows-trusts-ex-kgb-agent-putin-more-than-us-intelligence
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