Why did POTUS circumvent DNI Coats (normal protocol for DECLAS) and give AUTH directly to AG Barr?
Because the IC has already cleared for DECLAS?
Because Barr is aware of all the investigations currently ongoing?
Because Barr handles indictments?
Why did POTUS circumvent DNI Coats (normal protocol for DECLAS) and give AUTH directly to AG Barr?
Because the IC has already cleared for DECLAS?
Because Barr is aware of all the investigations currently ongoing?
Because Barr handles indictments?
Or Coats is dirty?
Or Coats is going to be a witness?
Or somehow optics?
I don’t have an opinion on Coats yet, because I don’t know enough about him. No idea what color his hat is.
#3347 DAN COATS
#3347
23 May 2019 - 10:13:18 PM
Why did POTUS circumvent DNI Coats (normal protocol for DECLAS) and give AUTH directly to AG Barr?
Q
From Dan’s Wiki page, several possibilities come to light about why POTUS may have circumvented Coats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats
[Dan is a total derp regarding the 2nd amendment.]
GUN LAWS
On multiple occasions, Coats has supported gun control measures. In 1991, he voted in favor of the Biden-Thurmond Violent Crime Control Act of 1991. This act, which did not become law, would have created a waiting period for handgun purchases and placed a ban on assault weapons. Subsequently, he supported the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act that President Clinton signed into law in 1993. The legislation imposed a waiting period before a handgun could be transferred to an individual by a licensed dealer, importer, or manufacturer. This waiting period ended when the computerized instant check system came online. Coats also supported Feinstein Amendment 1152 to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1993. The purpose of the Feinstein Amendment was to “restrict the manufacture, transfer, and possession of certain semiautomatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices”.
In April 2013, Coats was one of forty-six senators to vote against passage of a bill which would have expanded background checks for gun buyers. Coats voted with 40 Republicans and 5 Democrats to stop the passage of the bill.
RUSSIA
Coats pressed President Barack Obama to punish Russia harshly for its March 2014 annexation of Crimea. For this stance, the Russian government banned Coats and several other U.S. lawmakers from traveling to Russia.
[He seems to really want war with Russia]
OTHER
“….Coats served as co-chairman of the Washington government relations office of KING & SPALDING.”...
[Guess who started out her law career at King and Spalding….SALLY YATES. She also returned there after being dismissed by Trump shortly after he took office.]
[The following may be A major reason, if not THE reason why Trump has distanced himself from Coats:]
DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
“…On July 16, 2018, Coats released a statement affirming the consensus of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a day after the 2018 Russia–United States summit where President Trump recanted his endorsement of the IC’s assessment.
ON SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 DIRECTOR COATS DENIED THAT HE HAD AUTHORED THE ANONYMOUS NEW YORK TIMES OP/ED PIECE FROM A SENIOR TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL THAT BERATED THE PRESIDENT. THE DAY BEFORE, MSNBC HOST LAWRENCE O’DONNELL HAD SPECULATED THAT COATS WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE CONTROVERSIAL ANONYMOUS PIECE…”
PERSONAL
Personal life
He is married to Marsha Coats, Indiana’s woman representative to the Republican National Committee.
He received the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America’s Charles G. Berwind Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012.
[Oh boy…. “BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS.”]