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Dan Coats is out, but his influential team is here to stay

By Paul Bedard

Published August 6, 2019 1:18pm ET

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Dan Coats is out, but his influential team is here to stay — Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats arrives as House and Senate lawmakers from both parties gather for a classified briefing in a secure room about the federal investigation into President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 24, 2018. Trump is calling his newest attempt at discrediting special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation "spygate" amid reports that a longtime government informant approached members of his campaign during the 2016 presidential election in a possible bid to glean intelligence on Russian efforts to sway the election. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dan Coats, the former director of national intelligence who just resigned, may no longer be pushing the buttons in Washington but his old staff, sprinkled inside and outside the Beltway, are and will be for years.

Twice a senator who was also a former House member and ambassador to Germany, the conservative Coats has a long list of former aides who are now in key jobs and ready to carry on his Hoosier legacy.

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