Cybersecurity
Senate Confirms Dan Coats as Director of National Intelligence
- Coats will oversee coordination of 17 intelligence agencies
- Ex-senator faced little resistance with 85-12 Senate vote
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Dan Coats won Senate confirmation Wednesday to oversee 17 agencies as the U.S. director of national intelligence, a role that will challenge him to build ties in place of tensions between the spy agencies and the Trump administration.
Coats, a former Republican senator from Indiana, faced little resistance as the Senate voted 85-12 to confirm him. He will be responsible for coordinating the U.S. intelligence community, which includes the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation.