Intel chief Dan Coats clashed repeatedly with the President's view on key national security matters, so naturally he's being replaced with a congressman whose only qualification appears to be his fealty to Trump, writes Peter Bergen for CNNOpinion
Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the author of"United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles at CNN.
Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, is resigning, according to a tweet on Sunday from President Donald Trump. Peter BergenCoats' departure was utterly predictable because he performed his job, which was to tell the truth. Unfortunately, his boss didn't like those truths.On many of the key foreign policy and national security issues of the Trump administration -- Iran, ISIS, North Korea and Russia -- the director of national intelligence and the President fundamentally disagreed about the facts. So naturally Trump is nominating Rep.
Who is DNI Dan Coats? 01:45Trump was said to be"enraged" by the coverage of Coats' testimony, which he believed undercut his efforts with the North Koreans to have them agree to complete"denuclearization." Experts on North Korea almost universally believe that it is quite doubtful that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will give up all his nukes.
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Dan Coats Stepping Down as Intelligence Director, Will Be Replaced by Trump Loyalist Rep. John RatcliffeHe and the president had been butting heads, with the president choosing to believe what he heard on Fox News rather than believe the intelligence community’s assessments
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