Dan Coats had been trying to reach me, and I called him immediately after we were airborne. He was, to say the least, upset. “Shock waves are rolling across Washington,” he said, and the intelligence community wanted a statement from him to prevent the community from being totally undermined. Coats had prepared something that in his view was necessary to defend the community, and I asked him to hold off issuing it for just a few minutes until I could talk to Kelly. I did not detect any hint that he was thinking of resigning, but his sense of urgency was palpable. I hung up and found Kelly, who
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