Identity

About Sean Andrew Misko

Titles and dates come from the Atlantic Council expert page, the CNAS fellow page, House Statement of Disbursements reporting, H. Rept. 116-335, the January 3, 2021, HPSCI Democrats statement, and LegiStorm. Identity confidence: high for this government résumé. The name is not unique. This site does not merge the South Carolina high-school teacher or other private Sean Miskos. No free-use Wikimedia or U.S. government portrait of this Sean Misko was located. Episode images are the Capitol, Rayburn, the White House, and Adam Schiff’s official congressional photograph — not a generated face.

North Portico of the White House. Tina Hager, Executive Office of the President. U.S. government work. Used on this identity page because no qualifying Misko portrait was found.

Sean Andrew Misko is a national-security staffer: CIA fellow on his own think-tank bios, State and NSC official, then professional staff for Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee and, as of July 14, 2025, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. This page is identity only. The episodes live in the posts. This is not the biography he would write. It is not a tribute.

Documented roles

Public name. Sean Andrew Misko; Sean A. Misko on the Atlantic Council page and H. Rept. 116-335. LegiStorm.
Education (as those bios state). B.A. degrees in International Politics and Media Studies, Penn State; MPP, International Security and Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School. Penn State Alumni Achievement Award, 2012, per CNAS. CNAS; Atlantic Council.
Early government (self-described on those pages). Roberts Intelligence Fellow and political analyst, CIA; Presidential Management Fellow, State Department Office of Iranian Affairs; special assistant, OMB National Security Division; policy adviser, U.S. Central Command.
2009–2012. Special adviser to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP). Coordinated negotiation of the U.S.–Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement, those bios say.
State Policy Planning. Member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff; advised Secretary John Kerry on South Asia and the Middle East; led staff work on the Obama 2015 National Security Strategy, per the Atlantic Council page. CNAS (2014 fellow page) places him on Policy Planning at the time of the fellowship.
2014. Next Generation National Security Fellow, Center for a New American Security. CNAS.
~2015–first half of 2018. Director for Gulf States, National Security Council. Present-tense title on the Atlantic Council expert page; date range as reported by the Washington Examiner. Examiner, Nov. 19, 2019.
2019–2022. Professional staff, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Examiner, citing quarterly disbursements: official hire date July 26, 2019. HPSCI Democrats, Jan. 3, 2021: offered and accepted in May 2019 (Middle East), formally joined in July 2019. Epoch Times, reporting Twitter Files: on that staff until September 2022. Named on the Impeachment Inquiry Investigative Staff in H. Rept. 116-335.
From July 14, 2025. Professional staff member, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. LegiStorm salary table.
Not this person. Other private Sean Miskos exist, including a South Carolina high-school teacher of the same name. This file is the national-security staffer.

ALWAYS-CHECK (as of 2026-08-26)

Real pieces that name him were found at the Washington Examiner, RealClearInvestigations / RealClearPolitics, Breitbart, Daily Wire, The Federalist, Fox News, The Epoch Times, The Post Millennial, the New York Post, Judicial Watch, and Jonathan Turley. House and Senate payroll, H. Rept. 116-335, and the HPSCI Democrats statement are the primaries. No piece naming this Sean Andrew Misko was found at The Gateway Pundit, Conservative Treehouse, OANN, Deep Capture, Daily Caller, DataRepublican / datarepublican.com, doge.gov / doge.gov/savings, or USAspending.gov. No FEC contribution record for this staffer was located. Those absences are noted. Headlines were not invented.

What this site is not

It is not a finding that Sean Misko committed a crime. A payroll date the day after a presidential phone call is not a conspiracy verdict. An anonymous “bro-like” description is not a sworn friendship. The RCI “take him out” account is an allegation from anonymous sources — not a transcript. HPSCI Democrats denied that he met with or guided any whistleblower and denied a “take out” plot. Atlantic Council funding from Burisma is not his employment by Burisma. A Twitter takedown request by Schiff’s office is a documented ask, not a conviction. This site does not invent quotes, titles, or crimes. It does not invent friendliness to Donald Trump. The public record of this office is the Schiff / HPSCI / first-impeachment file.

It is not a White House product. It is not lawsuit-proof. There is no Method page. Read the posts.