Dan Coats Selected As Director of National Intelligence

Former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats (R) has been tabbed as Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, the Associated Press reports on Thursday.

BREAKING: AP Source: Trump selects former Indiana Sen. Dan Coats as director of national intelligence.

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 5, 2017

Coats represented Indiana in the Senate from 2011-2017, and also from 1989-1999. In between his time in the Senate, he was the U.S. Ambassador to Germany.