Late to the party……….wasn't Pence the one who recommended Dan Coates?
Found an article in Time Magazine quoting Adam Schiff on Coates:
“He’s a person of great personal integrity,” says California Democrat Adam Schiff, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee. “He has been nonideological and nonpolitical.”
Looking back it should have been the kiss of death.
https://time.com/5286677/dan-coats-dni-donald-trump-north-korea/