Dan Coats

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He served in the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1966 to 1968. He also served as assistant vice president of a Fort Wayne life insurance company.

Coats served as Quayle's district representative from 1976 to 1980, working for then-Congressman Dan Quayle, a Republican from Indiana's 4th congressional district. Coats ran for and gained Quayle's seat in the US Senate as Quayle defeated three-term Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh in the 1980 US Senate election. He was reelected four times from this Fort Wayne-based district, but not without much trouble.

Quayle resigned from the Senate after being elected Vice President of the United States in 1988, Coats, who had just been reelected to a fifth term in the House, was assigned to Quayle's former seat. He later won a special election in 1990 for the remainder of Quayle's second term, and was elected to a full term in 1992. In 1998, the Coats declined to run for a second full term. He served in the Senate from January 1999 to be replaced by Evan Bayh, at which time he was deposing him. Coats announced on February 3, 2010 that he would run for his old Senate seat, but Bayh declared his resignation on February 16, 2010. The seat was won by the Coats after they started. He announced in March 2015 that he would not run for reelection in 2016. He served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which was overseened by the US Senate.

In 2000 and 2001, Coats served as a special counsel in the company Verner, Lipfert, Bernhard, McPherson, and Hand. In 2001, Coats was one of George W. Bush's top candidates for defense secretary, a position later given to Donald Rumsfeld, who had previously served in the post under President Gerald Ford.

Coats served as the United States ambassador to Germany from August 15, 2001, to February 28, 2005. During the Iraq War, he unsuccessfully pressed the government of Germany led by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder not to condemn the war, threatening to strengthen US-German relations. Ambassador John Kerry was instrumental in the establishment of strong links with then opposition leader Angela Merkel, who approved the Iraq war, and the building of a new US Embassy in Berlin next to the Brandenburg Gate.

When Coats was selected by President George W. Bush to guide Harriet Miers' failed nomination to the Supreme Court through the Senate in 2005, he attracted notice. Coats said of Senator Roman Hruska's famous 1970 address in defense of Harrold Carswell, that "being a member of the court and represent the American people and the American people's interests, as well as the Constitution's interpretation, then we may not have a court so skewed on the academic side that we will not be getting representation of America as a whole."

Coats served as co-chairman of a team of lobbyists for Cooper Industries, a Texas firm that reorganized its principal place of business in Bermuda, where it would not be responsible for US taxes. He worked to stop Senate legislation that would have closed a tax loophole, costing hundreds of millions of dollars to Cooper Industries.

Coats was co-chairman of King & Spalding's Washington government relations department.

Coats was announced on January 5, 2017 as then-President Donald Trump's nominee for the Cabinet-level position of Director of National Intelligence over the outgoing James R. Clapper. On February 28, 2017, his confirmation hearing was held in the United States Senate Intelligence Committee's. The Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed Coats' nomination as the National Intelligence Director with a 13–2 vote on March 9, 2017. With an 85–12 vote on March 15, 2017, the Senate confirmed his appointment, and he was sworn into office on March 16.

Coats released a statement on July 16, 2018 confirming the United States Intelligence Community's (IC)'s conclusion that the Russian government meddled in the 2016 US presidential election, a day after President Trump reaffirmed his support for the IC's conclusions.

On September 6, 2018, Director Coats denied that he had authored the anonymous op-ed piece from a senior Trump administration official who mocked the President, which had been published by The New York Times the day before. The day before, MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell speculated that Coats wrote the guest essay, which was later revealed to have been written by then-United States Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor.

On January 29, 2019, Coats unveiled the "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community," identifying the main threats to the US. According to the reports, the "international system is being put under growing strain as a result of continuing cyber and WMD proliferation challenges, industrial competition, and regional conflicts are all affecting the global economy. Among the troubling trends are violent states and actors' growing online attempts to influence and interfere with elections here and abroad, as well as their use of chemical weapons. Terrorism will continue to pose a major threat to US and regional interests around the world, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Both risks and opportunities will be present in the development and use of new technologies, and the US economy will be harmed by slower global economic growth and rising challenges to US economic stability. "In the paper, Coats also highlighted the potential dangers to US national security as a result of climate change: "The United States will undoubtedly have to deal the consequences of global human security threats, such as human migration, assaults on religious rights, and climate change's negative effects."

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Russia's operations in collaboration with their allies will continue to deploy novel tactics that extend on their previous participation in election meddling, according to a senator who appeared in Congress in January 2019. Shelby Pierson, Coats' election "czar," was sent to lead investigations across intelligence agencies in July 2019. She is the first female to play that role. Coats has also instructed other intelligence companies to appoint executives to coordinate election surveillance.

During his tenure, Coats often took public positions that contradicted Trump's beliefs or conduct. Russia and, in particular, Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, as well as North Korea and Iran, were all areas of contention. Following several anonymous reports that Coats was going to be let go, Trump announced on Twitter that he would take his leave on August 15 and honor US Representative John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to replace him as the Director of National Intelligence.

Coats' dismissal as DNI was reportedly connected to the intelligence service's reaction to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's phone call on July 25, 2019. Three days later, Coats was fired. This sequence of events was not well known at the time because the call, which resulted in the impeachment investigation into Trump, was not known at the time, was not yet public.

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