Last week’s appearance of Joseph Maguire, the acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI), highlighted the importance of an obscure position. Maguire deferred to the Trump Justice Department’s tortured argument for withholding a whistleblower’s complaint from Congress but insisted he was following the law, not covering up. Democrats were unconvinced. Trump ousted the previous DNI, Dan...
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Keep Hope Alive: South Korea’s Moon Meets Dan Coats to Save Nuclear Talks
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats is in South Korea meeting with President Moon Jae-in. Moon is trying to coax Trump into an agreement with North Korea that will end the Korea war and gradually denuclearize the Korean peninsula. On this issue, many Democrats in Washington are mindlessly siding with John Bolton against the peace-minded...
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Moon Rising: Trump and Kim Letters Revive Hope for Denuclearization Talks
Maybe the U.S.-Korea denuclearization talks aren’t dead after all. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have exchanged friendly letters and Trump is headed to South Korea for a visit. These developments are boost for South Korean president Moon Jae-in who has facilitated the on-again, off-again negotiations of the two mercurial leaders. With talks...
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Coats and Haspel: Trump Is ‘Engaged and Knowledgable’
You know those days at the office when you have to coddle your boss’s ego just because you’d like to keep your job? Gina Haspel and Dan Coats had that kind of day. They know the boss is cranky. Last month Trump rubbished Haspel’s testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee as “lame.” He griped about...
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Why Trump Is Going After Dan Coats, Not Gina Haspel
Dan Coats, Director of the Office National Intelligence, is a low-key man in hot water, says The Washington Post. Coats got his start in Washington politics as a congressman from Indiana. In the 1980s he was sometimes confused with Dan Quayle, his fellow Hoosier in the House. Quayle was better looking than Coats but a much...
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