TERA DAHL
Senior Advisor
2020-2021
BANNON ALLY LEAVES WHITE HOUSE AS MCMASTER CONSOLIDATES POWER
July 6, 2017
Dahl entered the White House with strong ties to members of the nationalist wing of Trump’s White House — including Bannon, whose website she wrote for, and NSC aide Sebastian Gorka, whose wife worked with Dahl at the Council on Global Security, a now-defunct counterterrorism think tank that warned about the dangers of Islam.
The think tank that Dahl co-founded with Katharine Gorka, by contrast, derided efforts to use image-conscious terms when describing Islam-inspired terrorism. The United States “must stop the misguided narrative that terrorism and extremism have nothing to do with Islam,” declared a white paper published by the group in 2014.
DONALD TRUMP KEEPS PARTING WAYS WITH 'THE BEST PEOPLE'
August 18, 2017
One might expect to see this number of firings and resignations at the end of a president's first term, not before Labor Day in a president's first year.
A BANNON ALLY IS THE LATEST CONTENTIOUS HIRE AT USAID
July 10, 2020
Like some other new political appointees at the aid agency, Dahl has a history of controversial commentary. She has described the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group linked to al-Qaida — a characterization many Middle East experts disagree with — and written favorably of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt’s military dictator. In 2013, Sisi presided over a bloody crackdown against Muslim Brotherhood members that left more than 1,000 dead.
“There is no difference between Hamas and Hezbollah, and the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Qaeda, and the Boko Haram; all are dedicated to the creation of a global Islamic Caliphate,” Dahl was quoted as saying in one Breitbart report.