President-elect Donald Trump — who openly admires Russian President Vladimir Putin and who has been publicly feuding with the US intelligence community over its assessment that Russia tried to influence the US election — just picked a man who was once banned from Russia to be the nation’s spy chief.
Former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats is Trump’s pick to be the director of national intelligence — the person who oversees all 16 of the nation’s intelligence agencies, from the CIA to the NSA. In 2014, Coats and several other members of Congress were banned from Russia in retaliation for the …read more
Source: Vox
