March 01, 2017
Durbin Meets With Intel Director Nominee Sen. Dan Coats
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statement after meeting with President Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence, Senator Dan Coats of Indiana:
I’ve known and respected Dan for decades as a person of integrity—the challenges facing our intelligence community, both foreign and domestic, call for a leader like him. In our meeting, Senator Coats pledged to provide information and cooperate with investigations of Russia’s cyberattacks on the U.S. and of any Russian connections in the last presidential campaign.