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| Former CIA Analyst Clare Lopez Explains Policy Shift, Benghazi, and Syrian rebels (video) |
| 2019-01-11 |
| Reaching back nearly five years for perspective and truth. [Daily Caller 8/17/2014] The Center for Security Policy’s Vice President for Research and Analysis, Clare Lopez, says in this exclusive video interview with The Daily Caller that very few have seemed to care that America switched sides in the global war on terror when President Obama deposed an erstwhile ally in the Middle East and provided weapons to al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood. About the author. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Thank you for explaining that, Besoeker. It’s easy to forget that what matters is the work product, not the raw material. Of course we together create our own open source work product here at Rantburg, as well as the raw material. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-01-11 22:53 |
| #1 Ms. Lopez made the point that the majority of information supporting her policy shift assessment is 'open source (OS)' or unclassified. I fully concur. The majority of intelligence supporting data or information is derived from unclassified or OS documents, events, and sources. The fusion of the OS data and the creation of assessment products is generally the stuff that gets classified. The corroboration and validation of the collected data (OS or classified) and the creation of fusion products helps answer the 'so what' question. This is where disinformation and fake news assist in the creation of doubt, clouding of events, statements, and facts come into play. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-01-11 09:30 |