President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats (R) as his director of national intelligence, The New York Times reported Thursday, citing a Trump transition official. The official announcement will likely come as soon as Friday.
Coats, who the Times described as a "mild-mannered conservative," will be coming aboard amid Trump's recently announced plans to restructure the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency; Trump reportedly believes the agencies have become too politicized. Coats would be joining Rep. Mike Pompeo, the more "hard-charging conservative" Trump has appointed to be his director of central intelligence, on Trump's national security team.
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