John McCain and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats spotted together abroad
What happens when a powerful United States Senator, known for his trips overseas to conduct clandestine business, is spotted abroad alongside the U.S. Director of National Intelligence? At the least, it gets people talking. That’s the case now that John McCain and Daniel Coats have been spotted – of all things – taking a boat ride together in Italy.
When it comes to official explanations, there’s a perfectly good reason for McCain to be there: he’s attending a high profile international forum while the Senate is recess, according to the Associated Press via the Washington Post (link). But see, the Senate is actually not in recess, because Senators left it technically in session when they most recently headed out of town so that Donald Trump couldn’t start firing and replacing cabinet members. And that context is part of what adds intrigue to the matter.
John McCain once secretly traveled to Syria to meet with the rebels there, without bothering to tell anyone – even President Obama – that he was doing so. After the most recent election, McCain also secretly sent an envoy to Europe to pick up a copy of the now-infamous Trump Russia dossier, which detailed everything from election collusion to the Pee Pee Tape. Any time Senator McCain travels abroad, or sends someone abroad, it always raises eyebrows. Considering the current chaos with Trump and his scandals, it sets off even more alarms.
Come to think of it, just why is the Director of National Intelligence meeting up with John McCain in Italy? Why does McCain consider this particular conference to be so important that he’s traveled to it in the midst of punishing brain cancer treatment? Dan Coats and McCain are old buddies from when they were in the Senate together. Maybe they were merely using that boat ride to catch up. Or just maybe – as has so often turned out to be the case – McCain is working on something under the radar. We’ll see.
