 On September 6, 2018, Director Coats denied that he had authored the anonymous op-ed piece from a Senior Trump Administration official that berated the President which had been published by the New York Times the day prior.The day before, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell had speculated that Coats was the author of the controversial anonymous piece.Coats released the DNI's "Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community" on January 29, 2019, listing the major threats to the United States.