But they insist to abolish the office would be an overreaction. Other intelligence agencies behave similarly, creating too many turf wars that leave the ODNI looking ineffectual. Goodman, OpEdNews. Best Jr. From to , Negroponte was a member of the Career Foreign Service. From to , he was employed in the private sector as executive vice president for global markets of The McGraw-Hill Companies in New York.
He was later U. State Department Bio. Dan Coats, who was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee before retiring from the Senate in , was nominated on January 5, , to be director of national intelligence. On March 15, the U. Senate confirmed him by a vote of 85 to There, he was on the soccer team and met the woman who would become his wife, Marsha. Coats graduated in with a B. He was drafted the following year and spent two years in the Army, leaving with a rank of staff sergeant.
When he left the service, Coats went to law school at Indiana University. He earned his J. In , he was made director of the Indiana office of Rep. Dan Quayle R. Coats won the seat on his own in Coats declined to run for re-election in when Democrat Evan Bayh threw his hat into the ring. When George W. Bush assumed the presidency in , Coats was said to be on the short list to be secretary of defense. Instead, that job went to Donald Rumsfeld and as a consolation prize, Coats was named ambassador to Germany.
Coats returned to the U. Coats then returned to lobbying, this time with the firm of King and Spalding. Coats represented General Electric, Google and other companies in the pharmaceutical, defense and energy industries. He also represented electrical products manufacturer Cooper Industries when that company was fighting to keep a tax break after it had moved its corporate headquarters from Texas to Bermuda.
Indiana voters returned Coats to the Senate in and he had spots on the intelligence, armed services and labor and human resources committees. In , Coats fought for tough sanctions against Russia after its invasion and annexation of Crimea. He was subsequently put on a list of those forbidden by the Russian government to travel to that country. Coats is socially very conservative. He was a member of the secretive The Fellowship or The Family , a Christian group that includes many conservative lawmakers and has promoted a fundamentalist agenda in the United States and around the world, including anti-gay laws in African countries.
Coats fought the idea of gays serving openly in the U. In , Coats backed a bill that expanded cyberthreat data-sharing between the government and the private sector. The proposal alarmed privacy advocates. Coats is the author of the book Mending Fences: Renewing Justice Between Government and Civil Society , based on a lecture he gave the previous year. In they founded the Foundation for American Renewal. The couple have three adult children: Laura, Lisa and Andrew.
They also have ten grandchildren. Trump to Tap ex-Sen. James R. Clapper, Jr. Air Force and in the administration of President George W. On July 29, the Senate Select Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to approve Clapper's nomination, and he was confirmed by the whole Senate on August 5. Main Menu. Back to Departments Back to Independent Agencies. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. History: Before there was a Director of National Intelligence, the leading intelligence figure in the U.
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The Deputy Director for Collection coordinates the collection of intelligence data from throughout the Intelligence Community and ensure that the National Intelligence Strategy NIS priorities are appropriately reflected in future planning and systems acquisition decisions. Clapper was still on the job as of August Comments Susan 2 years ago. Losing pride in our government!!! Mary S. Munro 2 years ago. Thank you Dan Coates for your service in these times.
You will be sorely missed. You did your duties with honor and integrity with the best interest of the United States. JR Richmond 3 years ago. A 1; big step forward. Since then, she has been covering the security industry and reporting on issues affecting enterprise security leaders, to include cybersecurity, leadership and management, risk and resilience and pressing security challenges facing the industry. This website requires certain cookies to work and uses other cookies to help you have the best experience.
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