{"id":30199,"date":"2017-09-29T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T19:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=30199"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:46:35","slug":"sen-daniel-coats-dni-meets-with-pardee-school-students-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2017\/09\/29\/sen-daniel-coats-dni-meets-with-pardee-school-students-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Dan Coats, DNI, Meets With Pardee School Students, Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bu-slideshow-container dni-coats autoplay\" id=\"bu-slideshow-container-30209\" data-slideshow-name=\"dni-coats\" data-slideshow-delay=\"5000\" style=\"width: auto; \"><div class='slideshow-loader active'><div class='loader-animation'><\/div><p>loading slideshow...<\/p><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-slides\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow transition-slide\" id=\"bu-slideshow-30209\"><li id=\"bu-slideshow-30209_0\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/09\/DNI6-516x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><li id=\"bu-slideshow-30209_1\" class=\"slide \"><div class=\"bu-slide-container slide-caption-bottom-right\"><img src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2017\/09\/DNI10-516x300.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation-container\"><ul class=\"bu-slideshow-navigation nav-icon\" id=\"bu-slideshow-nav-30209\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-1\" class=\" active\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>1<\/span><\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"#\" id=\"pager-2\" class=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><span>2<\/span><\/a><\/li> <\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Senator Daniel Coats, the United States Director of National Intelligence, visited the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University on September 28-29, 2017 to meet with students and faculty.<\/p>\n<p><span>The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) serves as the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community, overseeing and directing the implementation of the National Intelligence Program and acting as the principal advisor to the President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prior to serving as DNI, Sen. Coats served as a<span>\u00a0<\/span>United States Senator<span>\u00a0from\u00a0<\/span>Indiana<span>\u00a0(1989-1999, 2011-2017),\u00a0the\u00a0United States Ambassador to Germany\u00a0(2001-2005) and\u00a0as a member of the\u00a0U.S. House of Representatives (1981-1989).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Coats met with\u00a0a group of Pardee School students and talked to them about his role as the Director of National Intelligence, his time serving in Congress and the current security challenges facing the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the Sen. Coats discussed current security challenges facing the U.S. as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?s=policy+leaders+\"><em>Policy Leaders @BUPardeeSchool<\/em><\/a><span> series. The\u00a0<\/span> <em>Policy Leaders @BUPardeeSchool<\/em><span>\u00a0brings senior international policy makers to Boston University for important policy conversations with faculty and students. Guests included faculty and experts from across Boston University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pardee School hosted Senator Daniel Coats, the US Director of National Intelligence, for discussions with students and with faculty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11588,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8411],"tags":[9860,10413,10414,10415,1170,9989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30199"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30228,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30199\/revisions\/30228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}