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M. Lopez is Founder/President of Lopez Liberty LLC, w/a mission to
alert Americans to national security threats, both international &
from the Islamic Movement/Muslim Brotherhood & their Marxist
collaborators in this country. She supported former Acting ICE
Director Tom Homan & Tom Trento at Defend the Border/The United West
& was an instructor for John Guandolo’s Understanding the Threat
“Into Action” program & its online National Security Academy. In
mid-2023, Lopez offered expertise as national security advisor to
U.S. Presidential candidate Bishop E.W. Jackson. She is also senior
advisory board member & Director of U.S. Geostrategic Security
Issues for Near East Center for Strategic Engagement. She served as
advisor/mentor to Special Forces students in a fall 2020 DoD course.
From 2014-2020, Lopez served as VP for Research & Analysis at the
Center for Security Policy. In 2016, she was named to Sen. Ted
Cruz’s presidential campaign national security advisory team.
From 2013-2016, Lopez served as a member of the Citizens’ Commission
on Benghazi & continues as a member of the Citizens’ Commission on
National Security. Formerly VP of the Intelligence Summit, she was a
career operations officer with the CIA, professor at Centre for
Counterintelligence & Security Studies, Executive Director of the
Iran Policy Committee from 2005-2006 & has served as a consultant,
instructor, intelligence analyst & researcher for a variety of
defense firms. She was named a 2011 Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont
Institute.
In Feb 2012, Ms. Lopez was named a member of the Congressional Task
Force on National & Homeland Security, which focuses on the
Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) threat & serves as its Director for
Counterterrorism. She has served as a member of the Boards of
Advisors/Directors for the Center for Democracy & Human Rights in
Saudi Arabia, the United West & Voice of the Copts. She has been a
Visiting Researcher & guest lecturer on counterterrorism, national
defense & international relations at Georgetown University. Ms.
Lopez is a regular contributor to a range of media on China, Russia,
Iran & the Middle East. She is the co-author of two published books
on Iran, author of multiple book chapters plus numerous articles on
China & its civilian-military fusion Biological Weapons program. She
is the author of The Rise of the Iran Lobby & co-author/editor of
CSP’s Team B II study, Shariah: The Threat to America as well as The
Tiger Team’s The Secure Freedom Strategy: A Plan for Victory Over
the Global Jihad Movement. She co-authored Gulen & the Gulenist
Movement w/CSP’s VP for Outreach, Christopher Holton, See No Shariah:
‘Countering Violent Extremism & the Disarming of America’s First
Line of Defense with Frank Gaffney, CSP’s past President & is both
editor & co-author of the Center’s Ally No More: Erdogan’s New
Turkish Caliphate & the Rising Jihadist Threat to the West. She has
contributed chapters to “Barack Obama’s True Legacy”, edited by
Jamie Glazov & Elizabeth Sabbaditsch Wolff’s 2019 book, “The Truth
is No Defense”.
Lopez received a B.A. in Communications & French from Notre Dame
College of Ohio & an M.A. in International Relations from the
Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She completed Marine Corps
Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virginia before
declining a military commission to join the CIA. |
