{"id":395165,"date":"2017-01-06T00:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=395165"},"modified":"2017-01-06T00:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T22:12:59","slug":"trump-selects-former-indiana-sen-dan-coats-for-dni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/01\/trump-selects-former-indiana-sen-dan-coats-for-dni\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump selects former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats for DNI"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ Donald Trump has picked former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats to be director of national intelligence, CBS News\u2019 Arden Farhi reports, citing a senior transition official.
Coats\u2019 name has been floating for weeks (which has not always turned out well for potential appointees).
CBS News\u2019 Major Garrett had reported that Mr. Trump was also seriously considering cutting back the DNI. However on Thursday, Trump transition spokesman Sean Spicer said \u201call discussions are tentative\u201d and went on to say, \u201cthere is no truth to this idea of restructuring the intelligence community infrastructure. It is 100 percent false.\u201d
The senior transition official said that Mr. Trump \u201cwould like to streamline [the CIA and ODNI]. He needs to confer with the intelligence community, but many of them have asked for this for a long time.\u201d
On another remaining cabinet position, Garrett reports Sonny Perdue is the leading candidate for agriculture secretary. It\u2019s not clear whether this has been finalized, though it is certainly close — he was most recently being vetted through Senate GOP leadership.<\/p>\n

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