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Dan Coats To Be Replaced As Intelligence Chief By John Ratcliffe Who Berated Robert Mueller Last Week
It's no surprise that Dan Coats is set to step down as director of national intelligence.
After all, Coats hasn't always been on the same page with Donald Trump when it comes to Russian interference in America's democratic process. Following Trump’s joint press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki (during which the president appeared to suggest that he was inclined to believe the Kremlin over the US intelligence community when it comes to election interference), Coats was unequivocal.
From the NYT link:
….Mr. Ratcliffe, who served as mayor of Heath, Tex., and as a United States attorney, boasts on his website that he once “arrested 300 illegal aliens in a single day.” He was elected to the House in 2014, ousting Representative Ralph Hall, who at 91 was the oldest ….
This is when one hopes the “Deep State” is for real and functioning.
Still 16 months to go. A lot of damage can yet be done.