Factbox: Who will be Trump's next intelligence chief?

Reuters | August 07, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump promised to move quickly to nominate a successor to Dan Coats, who leaves his position as Director of National Intelligence on Aug. 15. Here are three potential candidates who could be named after Trump last week dropped his choice of John Ratcliffe to be spy chief after questions arose about the congressman’s lack of experience and exaggerations in his resume, according to administration officials and media reports.

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