Republicans Tense Up As Official Who Created ‘Disinformation Board’ In Biden Years Takes On New Role
Jennifer Daskal, a Biden administration official who helped launch the short-lived Disinformation Governance Council, was named an advisor to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) effective February 1.
Daskal will serve as amicus curiae, meaning “friend of the court,” and advise judges on “legal issues related to foreign surveillance warrants in national security cases,” according to the Washington Free Beacon.
Daskal is best known for her involvement in the Biden-era Disinformation Governance Council, for which she authored the character. Daskal would have helped select Nina Jankowicz to exercise the functions of director of the board of directors. Jankowicz, you will remember, is the woman who carried out A Mary Poppins parody of “misinformation”. (RELATED: ‘Don’t surrender’: Biden’s former ‘misinformation’ czar heads to Europe to make case against US ‘autocracy’)
In 2016, Jankowicz promoted allegations that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia, according to the Washington Examiner.
Jankowicz “cited Christopher Steele as an expert on disinformation, made misleading statements about funding his case, questioned the Hunter Biden laptop story, downplayed Iranian interference in the election and criticized the hypothesis of a lab leak in Wuhan, China,” claims the Washington Examiner.
Daskal previously served as senior counterterrorism advisor at Humans Rights Watch, a nonprofit organization that received a $100 million grant from George Soros in 2010. Daskal herself received a grant from the Open Society Institute, an organization founded by Soros.
Human Rights Watch asserted, in 2017, that the election of President Donald Trump “capped a campaign marked by misogynistic, xenophobic, and racist rhetoric and Trump’s adoption of policies that would cause significant harm to vulnerable communities, violate basic U.S. human rights obligations, or both.” »
Republicans are concerned about Daskal’s new nomination.
The presiding judges of the FISA court have just appointed Jennifer Daskal to advise the secret court. She helped create the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Council.
Mad.
Yet another reason to reform. pic.twitter.com/oyO5E5EFWB
– Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 17, 2026
“The American people must have confidence in the people charged with serving as friends before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,” The Republican senator from Iowa. Chuck Grassley said the Washington Free Beacon.
Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt sounded the alarm on X, calling Daskal’s nomination “[i]it’s crazy.
“Yet another reason for reform,” Schmitt continued, attaching a video of himself grilling Daskal on his involvement in the Disinformation Governance Council at a 2025 hearing. (RELATED: DHS-Linked ‘Disinformation’ Researcher Says She Advised, Influenced Twitter’s Censorship Regime)
“Senator, in my opinion it is not appropriate for the government to censor any point of view,” Daskal says in the video.
“Literally, you were part of the Disinformation Governance Council of the United States of America. My argument is that the Orwellian name Ministry of Truth was already taken, so the Disinformation Governance Council slipped right in. And you played a big role in all of that. I mean, you wrote the charter,” Schmitt responds.
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