{"id":35577,"date":"2019-02-21T00:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35577"},"modified":"2019-02-21T00:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:55:52","slug":"dni-coats-might-be-fired-for-telling-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35577","title":{"rendered":"DNI Coats might be fired for . . . telling the truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats reportedly is about to be canned by the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump supposedly is angry because Coats isn’t a “team player”; he doesn’t display outward “loyalty” to the president.<\/p>\n

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Good grief! DNI Coats is telling the truth. His truth-telling runs counter to the messages that the president delivers.<\/p>\n

Trump said the Islamic State is “defeated”; Coats said ISIS is still recruiting members and is still capable of inflicting damage on targets; Trump said North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat; Coats said North Korea is continuing to develop nukes; Trump said Iran is a direct threat to the Middle East and is working toward developing a nuclear bomb; Coats said Iran is following the terms of the nuclear deal that bans the Islamic Republic from developing nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n

Is there a pattern here? Sure there is. Trump is lying about national security matters; Coats is telling the truth.<\/p>\n

As we know about the president, he has barely a passing acquaintance with the truth.<\/p>\n

Coats and Trump reportedly never have clicked. Coats is a veteran Republican politician: a former GOP member of the House and a senator from Indiana, as well as a former U.S. ambassador to Germany. He knows the ropes in Washington. He has friends and allies on both sides of the widening political chasm.<\/p>\n

He also is prone — as they say — to speak truth to power<\/em>. So he has done that. Coats’ penchant for honesty now is reportedly going to cost him his job. It also would cost the nation another grownup in a presidential administration that is sorely lacking in them.<\/p>\n

Trump was asked this week if he is about to fire Coats. He responded that he hasn’t “even thought about it.”<\/p>\n

Do you believe him? Neither do I.<\/p>\n\n

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