:*Coats resignation and Ratcliffe's nomination was due to the [[IC]]'s non-compliance with President Trump's declassification order of May 23, 2019 to Attorney General William Barr. The declassification order put the DNI beneath the Attorney General. Coats has not complied with the order to produce documents from [[John Brennan]]'s [[CIA]] exposing CIA's role in 2016 election interference and the subsequent coup plot. | :*Coats resignation and Ratcliffe's nomination was due to the [[IC]]'s non-compliance with President Trump's declassification order of May 23, 2019 to Attorney General William Barr. The declassification order put the DNI beneath the Attorney General. Coats has not complied with the order to produce documents from [[John Brennan]]'s [[CIA]] exposing CIA's role in 2016 election interference and the subsequent coup plot. |