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Trump's former spy chief (Dan Coats) is calling on Congress to create an election oversight commission
CNN ^ | Sep 17 2020 | Devan Cole

Posted on 09/17/2020 7:39:11 AM PDT by rintintin

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's former director of national intelligence called on Congress to create a commission to "oversee the election," an especially notable proposal from a former senior administration official that comes as the President continues to sow doubt about the integrity of the upcoming contest.

Former DNI Dan Coats outlined the proposed oversight commission in an opinion piece published Thursday in The New York Times in which he wrote that "our democracy's enemies, foreign and domestic, want us to concede in advance that our voting systems are faulty or fraudulent; that sinister conspiracies have distorted the political will of the people," among other things. As a result, Coats wrote, the "most urgent task American leaders face is to ensure that the election's results are accepted as legitimate."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dancoats; sedition; votefraud
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1 posted on 09/17/2020 7:39:11 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

The dirty ones are exposing themselves imo.


2 posted on 09/17/2020 7:40:43 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: rintintin

By “Congress”, does Coats mean Nancy’s House, the Senate, or some “non-partisan” group, which will either be politically appointed or powerless?


3 posted on 09/17/2020 7:41:07 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: rintintin

Coats is from the intelligence community and he’s here to help.


4 posted on 09/17/2020 7:41:25 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Where’s that Tracy Morgan no gif at.


5 posted on 09/17/2020 7:41:48 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: rintintin

Coats is about to go down and is scared.


6 posted on 09/17/2020 7:42:11 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: rintintin

“...are accepted as legitimate...”. How about actually legitimate?


7 posted on 09/17/2020 7:43:10 AM PDT by downtownconservative
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To: rintintin

Dan Coats is the one who orchestrated the coverup of the Mt Carmel massacre. Career Deep Stater.


8 posted on 09/17/2020 7:43:23 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Resist The Narrative.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“”Woodward book: Former intel chief Dan Coats believed “Putin had something on Trump” “”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.axios.com/bob-woodward-book-trump-putin-russia-dan-coats-b3994f91-8791-4fdc-9adb-ad093141592b.html

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Looks to me like Coats was another one of Trumps bad hires


9 posted on 09/17/2020 7:44:01 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Congress oversee an election?

Great idea if you want thousands of car trunks full of votes.

Many Pelosi would be thrilled to provide such oversight.


10 posted on 09/17/2020 7:44:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: downtownconservative

Coats is from the intelligence community and he’s here to help.


11 posted on 09/17/2020 7:44:51 AM PDT by rintintin
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https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/15/woodward-book-former-intelligence-director-dan-coats-concluded-would-useless-speak-out-against-donal/5803115002/

As for Vice President Mike Pence, the fellow Hoosier and good friend of Coats who brought him into the administration, Coats believed he had built a cocoon around himself and become passive, subservient and obedient, Woodward writes. Pence encouraged Coats to “look on the positive side of things” that Trump has done.

The book describes Marsha Coats confronting Pence at a White House dinner after something outrageous had happened.

“And I just looked at him, like, how are you stomaching this?” Marsha Coats is quoted as saying. “And he just whispered in my ear, ‘Stay the course.’”

It had been Marsha Coats who – along with Pence – had convinced a reluctant Coats to take the job after leaving the Senate at the end of 2016, according to the book.

Dan Coats had concluded that Pence was trying to seed the cabinet with allies, people who shared his religious values, and agreed to be nominated, Woodward writes.

It wasn’t long, however, before Coats began to think that Trump was impervious to facts.


12 posted on 09/17/2020 7:45:53 AM PDT by maggief
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To: DoughtyOne

Is Coats just Bolton without the Capn Crunch mustache?


13 posted on 09/17/2020 7:47:04 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

This is going to be the most interesting election in American history...The aftermath of the election is going to be equally interesting...

Use your imagination to define the word “interesting”.....


14 posted on 09/17/2020 7:47:10 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: rintintin

Before Coats was DNI he was a senator from Indiana and we Hoosiers can warn you he’s as deep state as it gets. He puts the oh in RINO.


15 posted on 09/17/2020 7:47:34 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: rintintin

I can only imagine who would be on the commission. Headed by Mueller, with Struck, Page and Comey as Co Chairs.


16 posted on 09/17/2020 7:47:47 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Great idea if you want thousands of car trunks full of votes.

Which, was exactly the scenario when Oklahoma's dope addicts/libertarians stole the election to legalize marijuana.

That's how they roll.

17 posted on 09/17/2020 7:48:06 AM PDT by LouAvul (The wheels of America are coming off and the media have stolen the lug nuts.)
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To: maggief

Have Bolton and Coats ever been seen in the same room together?

Is Coats just Bolton without the Capn Crunch mustache?


18 posted on 09/17/2020 7:48:53 AM PDT by rintintin
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To: rintintin

Hell no. Congress is a lying, filthy shithole.


19 posted on 09/17/2020 7:49:53 AM PDT by dforest
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To: b4its2late

What’s your favorite color ... revolution?


20 posted on 09/17/2020 7:50:19 AM PDT by rintintin
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