>>9169185 (pb)
>Who [former WH staff][one or more] introduced [pushed] DAN COATS as DNI DIR to POTUS?
>>9169566 (pb)
>So why choose Mr Coats?
>The answer may lie not with Mr Trump, but his running mate, vice-president-elect Mike Pence.
>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38543124
TRUE, but Q specified "former" WH staff
Pence may be compd, but he's not the target (yet).
BTW, Coats has a lot in his closet.
"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.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/us/politics/dan-coats-direction-national-intelligence-trump.html
and there is moar if you go deeper (eg banned documentary Conspiracy of Silence)