Clare M. Lopez

Clare M. Lopez (born 1953) is an American former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer who has served as Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy. She has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist by '' HuffPost'' and other media outlets.

Career

Lopez received a Bachelor of Arts in communications and French from Notre Dame College, and a Master of Arts in international relations from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, before completing Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. She then declined a military commission to instead join the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as a career operations officer, gaining deep experience in the Middle East.

During her service she acquired "extensive expertise in counterintelligence, counternarcotics, and counterproliferation issues with a career regional focus on the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans," and "has served in or visited over two dozen nations worldwide, ndspeaks several languages, including Spanish, Bulgarian, French, German, and Russian." Lopez worked for the CIA for two decades before later joining Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy (CSP), where she became Vice President for Research and Analysis from 2014 to 2020. In the CSP she described her work as "project manager" in the " counterjihad movement".

Lopez has also been vice president of the Intelligence Summit, a senior fellow at the Clarion Project, co-founder of the Iran Policy Committee, professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, Senior Scientific Researcher at the Battelle Memorial Institute, a Senior Intelligence Analyst, Subject Matter Expert, and previously produced Technical Threat Assessments for U.S. Embassies at the Department of State.

Views and activities

Lopez has published papers for the Gatestone Institute and the CSP, and given interviews and presentations claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood, which she considers to be a terrorist organization, has "infiltrated the United States government, and that Sharia law is taking hold in American courts." According to Georgetown University's Bridge Initiative, she "believes President Obama and his administration have a 'pattern' of 'enabling' or directly supporting Muslim terrorist groups," and "claims that Obama and Huma Abedin, an aide of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, both have ties to the Muslim Brotherhood." She has said that because Obama's father was Muslim, that "de facto makes him bamaa Muslim," and that the "Obama administration very clearly has switched sides in the war on terror." Furthermore, she asserts that the Muslim Brotherhood has an "unholy alliance" with the Black Lives Matter movement, that 80% of American mosques promote extremism, and that there are Muslim no-go zones in Minnesota.

Lopez appeared in the documentaries '' The Third Jihad: Radical Islam's Vision For America'' in 2008, and ''Iranium'' in 2011. She was a co-author of the CSP "Team B II" report '' Shariah: The Threat To America'' in 2010, and has written for the news websites '' Breitbart News'' and ''WorldNetDaily''. She was named one of the twelve most hardline anti-Muslim women in America by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2015. In 2016 she was an advisor to the Ted Cruz presidential campaign for national security, and was later reportedly being considered for deputy national security advisor to President-elect Donald Trump. According to a Trump adviser, Lopez was considered "one of the intellectual thought leaders about why we have to fight back against radical Islam." Trump also cited her work to support his proposed Muslim immigration ban.

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1953 births
Living people
21st-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
American conspiracy theorists
American counter-jihad activists
American women non-fiction writers
Breitbart News people
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs alumni
Notre Dame College (Ohio) alumni
People of the Central Intelligence Agency
WorldNetDaily people