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.

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, and has gained deep experience in the Middle East. Lopez worked for the CIA for two decades before later joining Frank Gaffney's Center for Security Policy (CSP), 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, 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." 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. She was a co-author of the CSP's Team B II report Shariah: The Threat To America in 2010, and has written for the news websites Breitbart News and WorldNetDaily. and was later reportedly being considered for deputy national security advisor to President-elect Donald Trump. Trump also cited her work to support his proposed Muslim immigration ban.