Trump to tap Coats for national intelligence director
By Katie Bo Williams - 01/05/17 03:26 PM EST
President-elect Donald Trump will name former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to direct the nation’s sprawling intelligence community, multiple media outlets reported Thursday.
The mild-mannered Republican, who did not seek reelection in November, was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
A former ambassador to Germany under George W. Bush, Coats served in the Senate twice — from 1989 to 1999, and again from 2011 until this year.
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