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Dan Coats, the 'Mister Rogers' Senator Poised to Be Intelligence Chief

President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to choose as director of national intelligence

two-time Senator Dan Coats, a former ambassador to Germany, secret foodie and lover of all

things Indiana who also served as a member of his chamber's Intelligence Committee.

Known for a self-effacing style, Mr. Coats was popular among his colleagues.

"I always thought he should wear a red cardigan," said Senator Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado.

"He was the closest thing to Mister Rogers we could come up with."

While fiscally conservative, Mr. Coats, an Indiana Republican who completed his second

Senate stint this month, often found common cause with Democrats, who described him as

thoughtful on intelligence and national security issues, with a sharp intellect and disarming

humor.

"I have always been impressed with his demeanor," said Senator Angus King, a Maine independent

who caucuses with the Democrats, and who served on the Intelligence Committee with Mr. Coats

and traveled with him in Eastern Europe.

"He's not a fierce partisan and knows the intelligence community.

He's very amiable and easy to work with."

The position of America's top intelligence official was created by Congress in 2004,

as a response to criticism that the nation's spy agencies had failed to detect and prevent

the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Since then, the director has been charged with coordinating the intelligence-gathering

and analysis of the country's 16 civilian and military spy agencies, helping to prevent

a terrorist attack and serving as a central liaison to presidents and their White House

staff.

But bureaucratic turf wars have dogged the office of the director of national intelligence

since its creation.

Officials who run the C.I.A. and the Defense Intelligence Agency, among others, have sought

to maintain control over parts of the spying apparatus, and to exert influence with presidents

and members of Congress.

In 2009, for example, Leon E. Panetta, President Obama's incoming C.I.A. director, clashed

with Dennis C. Blair, the director of national intelligence at the time, after Mr. Blair

sought to select the top American spies for overseas postings.

Mr. Panetta sent a dispatch to the agency's employees telling them to ignore Mr. Blair's

message — an assertion that the C.I.A. was in charge.

The rivalries have weakened the national intelligence office and led some critics in the government

to question its effectiveness.

The year that Mr. Obama took office, an internal report criticized the office of national intelligence

for adding to — not removing — bureaucratic bloat and doing little to end the tensions

among the various spy agencies.

In 2010, James R. Clapper Jr., the current director of national intelligence, insisted

during his Senate confirmation hearings that he would not be a "hood ornament," saying

that despite the inherent limitations on his job, he would try to bring an end to turf

battles among the nation's spy agencies.

Six years later, the job appears to have limited appeal to some intelligence professionals,

several of whom were not eager to serve in the position for fear that they would not

be empowered.

Mr. Coats had been an early and strong contender for secretary of defense in the first term

of President George W. Bush, until Mr. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, successfully

pressed for Donald H. Rumsfeld.

Mr. Coats, 73, graduated from Wheaton College in Illinois, and served in the Army before

studying at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

He began a career in life insurance in Fort Wayne, Ind., before joining the office of

then-Representative Dan Quayle as a district representative.

Mr. Coats owed much of his political career to his ties to Mr. Quayle, the former vice

president.

Mr. Coats won Mr. Quayle's House seat in 1980, the year the latter was elected to the

Senate.

After Mr. Quayle was elected vice president in 1988, Mr. Coats was appointed to fill his

seat; he served on the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees.

In 1998, Mr. Coats decided to not seek re-election, largely because the Democratic challenger,

Evan Bayh, was considered unbeatable.

In 2001, Mr. Coats was named ambassador to Germany, arriving only three days before the

Sept. 11 attacks.

"Ambassador Coats found himself thrown into a role he couldn't have foreseen a day earlier,

a role in which he would excel but one that would forever change him," Senator Mitch

McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, said on the Senate floor last year in remarks

praising Mr. Coats.

"Those who know Dan Coats say that day in September affected him profoundly," he said.

"He may not have known it then, but he would feel the tug of that responsibility many years

later, and answer the call."

After a brief foray into lobbying, Mr. Coats returned to the Senate in January 2011, serving

again on the Intelligence Committee.

Mr. Coats was also one of only a few Republican senators who supported compelling Congress

to officially authorize the use of military force abroad.

"You're asking our sons and daughters to take up our cause," he said, "and every

person who is here has to decide with their own conscience if that's something we're

going to do."

Mr. Coats enjoys visiting restaurants both in Indianapolis and in small hamlets that

serve farm-to-table food, and featured several interesting restaurants and food purveyors

when it was his turn to host lunch for his Republican colleagues.

Correction: January 5, 2017 An earlier version of a summary with this

article incorrectly named the post for which Senator Dan Coats is being considered.

He is the presumed choice for director of national intelligence, not director of national

security.

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