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Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden’s National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve
On January 30, 2017 — ten days into the Trump presidency —Rosa Brooks published an article in Foreign Policy titled “3 Ways to Get Rid of President Trump Before 2020.”
She outlined four scenarios for removing the new president from office: impeachment, the 25th Amendment, cabinet revolt, and a military coup. Of the last option, Brooks wrote that it was “a possibility that until recently I would have said was unthinkable in the United States of America.”
Brooks was a former Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon, where she reported to Michele Flournoy from 2009 to 2011. Before that, she served as Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute— the predecessor name for George Soros’s Open Society Foundations. After leaving government, she went to Georgetown Law, where she holds the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy
.Within the same year of her article, a new organization was quietly incorporated. National Security Action was incorporated in 2017 and launched publicly on February 2018 Its co-chairs were Ben Rhodes Obama’s deputy national security advisor, and Jake Sullivan who would become Biden’s national security advisor. Rosa Brooks sat on its advisory council. So did approximately sixty other people — 88.6% of them Obama administration alumni.
The organization’s primary funder was the Open Society Policy Center a Soros family 501(c)(4). Brooks also served on the board of the Open Society Foundations’ US Programs— the upstream grant-making entity within the same Soros network that was financing the organization whose advisory council she had joined.
This is the story of that organization.
The Roster
National Security Action launched with approximately seventy people— sixty advisory council members and ten staff. Its advisory council included Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, William Burns, Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Denis McDonough, Alejandro Mayorkas, Wendy Sherman, Wally Adeyemo, Kurt Campbell, Colin Kahl, Kathleen Hicks and Jon Finer.
.Tom Donilon— Obama’s former national security advisor — served on the advisory council.
Forty-six of seventy roster members— 65.7% — received Biden administration appointments. Sullivan became National Security Advisor
.Blinken became Secretary of State
.Burns became CIA Director
.Haines became Director of National Intelligence
.Power ran USAID
.Thomas-Greenfield became UN Ambassador
McDonough ran the VA
Mayorkas ran DHS
Julia Ioffe reported for Puck News on May 7 that the organization has been “funded largely by Alex Soros since its inception.” She called them “the Biden bros.” But Biden contributed five or six actual loyalists to a sixty-person advisory council. The other fifty-four were Obama alumni, maintained between administrations by Soros money. These are the Soros boys. They have been since the beginning.
The Pipeline
For twelve months and eleven days, from January 20, 2021 to January 31, 2022 Cathy Russell oversaw every senior appointment in the federal government. As Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office she oversaw the selection of every cabinet secretary, deputy secretary, assistant secretary, NSC director, and ambassador.
Russell is married to Tom Donilon— the former Obama national security advisor who served on NSA’s advisory council
. Between ten and fourteen members of that organization received senior national security appointments requiring her office’s coordination during her tenure. No public record of formal recusal exists.
Donilon simultaneously
chaired the BlackRock Investment Institute
while
sitting on NSA’s advisory council
. His brother,
, served as Senior Advisor to President Biden until January 2024. Tom Donilon did not take a formal Biden administration position. His wife ran the office that selected the others.
Caroline Tess ran NSA’s day-to-day operations as Executive Director. She also
. The person who ran the organization whose members were being placed also ran the process that placed them. She returned to NSA as
Interim Executive Director in June 2021
.
The Money
The money came through a single chain. George Soros’s personal wealth flows into the
, a 501(c)(4) with approximately
. The Fund sends hundreds of millions annually to the
, also called the Open Society Action Fund.
Alexander Soros sits on the boards of both entities
. The Action Fund distributes to NSA:
. Total confirmed from Open Society to NSA: $8.2 million —
67% of all documented grant revenue
.
served simultaneously as Executive Director of the
and as a
member of NSA’s advisory council
, the organization his entity was funding. His
tenure ran from November 2018 to July 14, 2023
. During that period, the entity he directed issued
,
$1.4 million to Win Without War
, and almost 2 million to
.
Ioffe found the same wall of opacity
: “Nobody — not even the various comms people working for N.S.A. — would tell me who is on the organization’s board or confirm that the group’s funding comes from Soros.”
What They Did in Office
On August 26, 2021 a suicide bomber killed thirteen American servicemembers and 169 Afghan civilians at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan
The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s investigation led by Chairman McCaul, found hat Sullivan systematically exercised powers over the withdrawal process, with the NSC serving as “the nerve center for critical decision making” — substituting its judgment for that of the State Department and Defense Department on decisions those agencies were designated to make.
Colin Kahl who served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy during this period, appeared on NSA’s advisory council roster
On October 7, 2023 Hamas launched its attack on Israel. The NSA alumni who occupied every senior intelligence and national security position in the United States government that morning included Sullivan as National Security Advisor, Blinken as Secretary of State, Haines as Director of National Intelligence, and Burns as CIA Director.
At the April 2026 meeting at Soros Fund Management Rhodes confronted Sullivan about the aftermath.
Ioffe reported that Rhodes “suggested that Sullivan needed to reckon with the stain of that policy.” A former senior State Department official told Puck: “This is the Jake and Jon Show: Redux, and nobody I know is happy about it. The idea that the same foreign policy leadership that brought us the Afghanistan withdrawal and the cover-up of Biden’s decline should be in charge of staffing the next Democratic administration and determining its foreign policy is tone deaf at best.”
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