Former Trump intel chief Coats introduces Biden nominee Haines at hearing

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who served under President Trump, on Tuesday introduced Avril Haines, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to serve as DNI, at her Senate confirmation hearing.

“After several conversations with Avril, there is no doubt in my mind that President-elect Biden has chosen someone who has all the capabilities and qualities, experience, and leadership to be the next director of national intelligence,” Coats said ahead of Haines’s opening statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

According to acting panel Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Coats had been scheduled to appear virtually, but came in person at the last minute.

Coats, who served as DNI for Trump between 2017 and 2019, described Haines as an “exceptional choice,” praising her stated goal of “bringing non-politicized truth to power and restoring trust and confidence in the intelligence community and the American public.”

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/534773-former-trump-intel-chief-coats-introduces-biden-nominee-haines-at

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And Trump can't tweet another attack on Coats.

[Mme. Defarge]

1. I Coates will get his security clearance restored.

[still_one]

2. In The Woodward book Rage, Dan Coats advised trump against his treatment of our allies along with

The facts of Russia, Middle East, and North Korea, and trump ignored the question advice.

Mattis, Coats, Tillerson, and Kelly were all fired by trump, not only unprofessionally, but indirectly through his tweets and media outlets

[IronLionZion]

3. Avril Haines is a fascinating character

I've followed her career from when she worked in the Obama administration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avril_Haines