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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</span></font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">wiki</span></font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-spacing: 3px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; line-height: 1.5em; width: 22em;"><caption class="fn org" style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund Inc</font></caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund.jpg" class="image" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund.jpg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund.jpg/325px-Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund.jpg" width="325" height="114" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e1/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund.jpg/488px-Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund.jpg 2x" data-file-width="531" data-file-height="187" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></font></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Abbreviation</font></th><td class="nickname" style="vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OPSEC</font></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Formation</font></th><td class="note" style="vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Headquarters</font></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,Virginia" title="Alexandria, Virginia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alexandria, Virginia</font></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><div style="padding: 0.1em 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">President</font></div></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Taylor(Republican_candidate)" class="mw-redirect" title="Scott Taylor (Republican candidate)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Scott Taylor</font></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><div style="padding: 0.1em 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spokesperson</font></div></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Kolton" title="Chad Kolton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Chad Kolton</font></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><div style="padding: 0.1em 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spokesperson</font></div></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Smith</font></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; padding-right: 0.6em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Website</font></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.opsecteam.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">www.opsecteam.org</font></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, Inc.</b> (OPSEC) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)#501.28c.29.284.29" class="mw-redirect" title="501(c)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">501(c)(4)</a> organization in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States</a>, formed in 2012. It began a media campaign critical of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">President Obama</a> in August 2012, accusing his administration of disclosing sensitive information about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Death of Osama bin Laden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">killing of Osama bin Laden</a> and taking too much credit for the operation.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_1-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OPSEC's members are primarily former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_special_operations_forces" title="United States special operations forces" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. special operations forces</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community" title="United States Intelligence Community" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">intelligence community</a> personnel. The group has extensive ties to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Republican Party</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement" title="Tea Party movement" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Tea Party movement</a>, though it describes itself as non-partisan.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-NYT_2012-08-15-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FP_2012-08-21_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-FP_2012-08-21-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters1_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-reuters1-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup> As of mid-August 2012, it claims to have raised almost $1 million.<sup id="cite_ref-McConnell_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-McConnell-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Ohlheiser-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The military <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau" title="Portmanteau" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">portmanteau</a> "OPSEC" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_security" title="Operations security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Operations Security</a>) is where security measures are taken to prevent friendly operations and intentions from being observed by an adversary's intelligence systems.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="user-select: none;"> [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#Leadership_and_composition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Leadership and composition</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#Activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Activities</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#Web_video" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Web video</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Funding</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Leadership_and_composition">Leadership and composition</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Leadership and composition" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OPSEC's </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">president is Scott Taylor, a former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_SEAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Navy SEAL" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Navy SEAL</a> who vied for the Republican nomination for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Virginia,2010#District_2" title="United States House of Representatives elections in Virginia, 2010" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">a Virginia congressional seat in 2010</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Ohlheiser-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[6]</a></sup> Its lead spokesperson and former SEAL, Ben Smith, was also a spokesperson for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Express" title="Tea Party Express" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Tea Party Express</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FP_2012-08-21_3-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-FP_2012-08-21-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></sup> Another spokesperson is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Kolton" title="Chad Kolton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Chad Kolton</a>, who worked for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W.Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Bush administration</a> as a spokesperson for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence" title="Director of National Intelligence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Director of National Intelligence</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-McConnell_5-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-McConnell-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a></sup> and who was hired to perform media relations for OPSEC in July 2012 through <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMK" title="HDMK" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">HDMK</a>, a Republican strategic communications firm.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[7]</a></sup> Public records filed with authorities indicate the group's treasurer, lawyer and TV producers also have affiliations with Republican Party organizations.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters-1" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none;">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters-1" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">1]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Activities">Activities</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Activities" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2012 United States presidential election" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2012 United States presidential election</a> it began a media campaign asserting that leaks of sensitive information from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Obama Administration" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Obama Administration</a> have endangered U.S. personnel and compromised <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security" title="National security" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">national security</a>, and that Barack Obama has taken too much credit for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Death of Osama bin Laden" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">death of Osama bin Laden</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-McConnell_5-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-McConnell-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Web_video">Web video</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Web video" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On August 15, 2012, the organization released <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishonorable_Disclosures" title="Dishonorable Disclosures" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Dishonorable Disclosures</a></i>, a 22-minute documentary film that accuses the Obama Administration of taking credit for killing bin Laden and leaking information for political advantage, featuring interviews with former special forces personnel. The film appears on the organization's website and on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">YouTube</a>, and OPSEC also intends to show it in a handful of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_states" class="mw-redirect" title="Swing states" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">swing states</a>, including Virginia, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, and Nevada.</span><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-NYT_2012-08-15-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Ohlheiser-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Elizabeth Flock of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_News" class="mw-redirect" title="US News" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">US News</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> questioned the group's claims to be non-partisan noting that "its ranks are filled with Republicans" and stating that OPSEC "has clearly taken a political side".</span><sup id="cite_ref-USNews_8-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-USNews-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> News reports have described the group's ties to the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Republican Party</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, noting that several prominent leaders of the group are Republicans and Tea Partiers and that it shares an office with a Republican consulting firm and a Republican polling firm.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters1_9-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters1-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-NYT_2012-08-15-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USNews_8-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-USNews-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_1-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_presidential_campaign,2012" title="Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Obama campaign</a> has likened it to the discredited "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftboating" title="Swiftboating" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">swift boat</a>" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smear_tactic" class="mw-redirect" title="Smear tactic" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">smear tactics</a> used against presidential nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Kerry</a> in 2004. In an official statement, the Obama campaign responded to the film by saying "The Republicans are resorting to 'Swift Boat' tactics because when it comes to foreign policy and national security, Mitt Romney has offered nothing but reckless rhetoric".<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters1_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters1-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USNews_8-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-USNews-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup> Leaders of OPSEC responded by stating the group is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-partisan" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-partisan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">non-partisan</a> and unconnected to any political party or presidential campaign. The veterans political action committee called VetPAC has said "OPSEC is a shadowy Republican front group," and called their video "dubious" and "silly".<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters1_9-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters1-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-NYT_2012-08-15-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-USNews_8-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-USNews-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup> Juliet Lapidos of the New York Times called the OPSEC video "a dishonest hatchet job" and remarked that while the stars of the video presented themselves as concerned citizens with no partisan motivations, their positions were inconsistent with their decision to appear in the video.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> Military journalist and former Marine, Geoffrey Ingersoll, reported in BusinessInsider that the video is a partisan effort instead of an effort to protect US troops, saying, "Obama used SEALs to kill bin Laden. Republicans are using them to eliminate Obama."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Funding">Funding</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Funding" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In mid-August 2012, the group said that it had raised almost $1 million since June of that year.<sup id="cite_ref-McConnell_5-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-McConnell-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> Registered with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Internal Revenue Service</a> as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)organization#501.28c.29.284.29" title="501(c) organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">501(c)(4)</a> social welfare organization,<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_1-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Reuters-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> which, unlike 501(c)(3), can participate in partisan politics,<sup id="cite_ref-IRSman_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-IRSman-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> the group is not required to disclose its donors and OPSEC has declined to discuss its funding.<sup id="cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-Ohlheiser-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reuters1_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_note-reuters1-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177);" linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist columns references-column-width" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.3em; column-width: 30em; list-style-type: decimal;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-Reuters-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Reuters_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Reuters_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Reuters_1-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Reuters_1-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Reuters_1-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Hosenball, Mark (17 August 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/18/us-usa-campaign-leaks-idUSBRE87G0Z320120818" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Group behind Obama attack ad has Republican Party ties"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">18 October</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Group+behind+Obama+attack+ad+has+Republican+Party+ties&rft.date=2012-08-17&rft.aulast=Hosenball&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2012%2F08%2F18%2Fus-usa-campaign-leaks-idUSBRE87G0Z320120818&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-NYT_2012-08-15-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-NYT_2012-08-15_2-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Shane, Scott (15 Aug 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/us/politics/ex-military-and-cia-officers-attack-obama-over-bin-laden-leaks.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Ex-Officers Attack Obama Over Leaks on Bin Laden Raid"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a></i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Company" title="The New York Times Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times Company</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2012-08-16</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Ex-Officers+Attack+Obama+Over+Leaks+on+Bin+Laden+Raid&rft.date=2012-08-15&rft.aulast=Shane&rft.aufirst=Scott&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2012%2F08%2F16%2Fus%2Fpolitics%2Fex-military-and-cia-officers-attack-obama-over-bin-laden-leaks.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-FP_2012-08-21-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-FP_2012-08-21_3-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-FP_2012-08-21_3-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Rogin, Josh (2012-08-21). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/21/in_facebook_postings_opsec_spokesman_rips_communist_in_chief_hussein_mao_bama" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"In Facebook postings, OPSEC spokesman rips 'Communist-in-Chief Hussein Mao-bama<span style="padding-right: 0.2em;">'</span>"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Policy" title="Foreign Policy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Foreign Policy</a></i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="The Washington Post Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post Company</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2012-08-21</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Foreign+Policy&rft.atitle=In+Facebook+postings%2C+OPSEC+spokesman+rips+%E2%80%98Communist-in-Chief+Hussein+Mao-bama%E2%80%99&rft.date=2012-08-21&rft.aulast=Rogin&rft.aufirst=Josh&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fthecable.foreignpolicy.com%2Fposts%2F2012%2F08%2F21%2Fin_facebook_postings_opsec_spokesman_rips_communist_in_chief_hussein_mao_bama&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-reuters1-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-reuters1_4-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-reuters1_4-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Hosenball, Mark; Alexander Cohen (August 14, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/us-usa-campaign-binladen-ad-idUSBRE87E01F20120815" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Special ops group attacks Obama over bin Laden bragging, leaks"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Reuters</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Special+ops+group+attacks+Obama+over+bin+Laden+bragging%2C+leaks&rft.pub=Reuters&rft.date=2012-08-14&rft.aulast=Hosenball&rft.aufirst=Mark&rft.au=Alexander+Cohen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Farticle%2F2012%2F08%2F15%2Fus-usa-campaign-binladen-ad-idUSBRE87E01F20120815&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-McConnell-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-McConnell_5-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-McConnell_5-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-McConnell_5-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-McConnell_5-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">McConnell, Dugald; Brian Todd (August 16, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/politics/former-seals-obama/index.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Former special forces officers slam Obama over leaks on bin Laden killing"</a>. CNN.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Former+special+forces+officers+slam+Obama+over+leaks+on+bin+Laden+killing&rft.pub=CNN&rft.date=2012-08-16&rft.aulast=McConnell&rft.aufirst=Dugald&rft.au=Brian+Todd&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2012%2F08%2F16%2Fpolitics%2Fformer-seals-obama%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Ohlheiser-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-Ohlheiser_6-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Ohlheiser, Abby (August 15, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/08/15/special_operations_opsec_education_fund_starts_swift_boat_like_anti_obama_media_campaign.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Special Ops Group Launches Anti-Obama Media Blitz"</a>. Slate.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Special+Ops+Group+Launches+Anti-Obama+Media+Blitz&rft.pub=Slate&rft.date=2012-08-15&rft.aulast=Ohlheiser&rft.aufirst=Abby&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fslatest.slate.com%2Fposts%2F2012%2F08%2F15%2Fspecial_operations_opsec_education_fund_starts_swift_boat_like_anti_obama_media_campaign.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span>^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Mundy, Alicia (August 15, 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/08/15/faulting-obama-former-officers-plan-ads-on-bin-laden-leaks" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Faulting Obama, Former Officers Plan Ads on Bin Laden Leaks"</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wall Street Journal</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Faulting+Obama%2C+Former+Officers+Plan+Ads+on+Bin+Laden+Leaks&rft.pub=Wall+Street+Journal&rft.date=2012-08-15&rft.aulast=Mundy&rft.aufirst=Alicia&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.wsj.com%2Fwashwire%2F2012%2F08%2F15%2Ffaulting-obama-former-officers-plan-ads-on-bin-laden-leaks&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASpecial+Operations+OPSEC+Education+Fund" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-USNews-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-USNews_8-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-USNews_8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-USNews_8-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_OPSEC_Education_Fund#cite_ref-USNews_8-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news" style="font-style: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;">Flock, Elizabeth (16 August 2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/08/16/navy-seal-group-hits-back-at-obama-campaign-for-swift-boat-comparison-" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url("");" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" csvg="Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E" cpath="Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" c="C" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">"Navy SEAL Group Hits Back At Obama Campaign For 'Swift Boat' Comparison"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.News_and_World_Report" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. News and World Report" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">U.S. News and World Report</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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As of yesterday, the novice candidate is handling both poorly.</span></font><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The first issue is Gomez's involvement in a head-shaking tax scam -- he claimed a $281,500 tax deduction by claiming not to change the facade of his house, despite the fact that <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/08/gomez-claimed-controversial-tax-deduction-home/skZgaV3aBoGflKtR03ZEEJ/story.html?camp=newsletter" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">he was already forbidden</a> under local bylaws from changing the facade of his house. The Senate candidate, in other words, accepted a very generous reward for failing to do something he couldn't do anyway.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked for an explanation, Gomez <a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/09/gabriel-gomez-defends-280000-tax-break-on-cohasset-home/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">said</a> it's "disgraceful" and "dishonorable" for his opponent, Rep. Ed Markey (D), to bring this up. Apropos of nothing, Gomez added that the veteran congressman is a "hack."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Of course, that didn't answer the question about his apparent tax scam. <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/09/gomezhouse/sMTxfyGqCM0STJBqfG6jPO/story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Neither did this</a>.</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican US Senate nominee Gabriel E. Gomez, facing questions about a $281,500 historic tax deduction on his Cohasset home, rejected calls Thursday from the media and Democrats to release tax returns and other details about the deal.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I have nothing to hide,'' said Gomez on a campaign stop in Lawrence, when asked by a Globe reporter why he would not make public the details about how the federal tax deduction was calculated for the easement to limit changes on the home that the candidate and his wife bought for $2.1 million in November 2004.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's a tip for politicians everywhere: don't say you have nothing to hide <i>while you're hiding things</i> without explanation.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Complicating matters, while this story was raising questions about Gomez's integrity, <i>another</i> story was putting the Republican's credibility in doubt.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gomez is a rookie when it comes to seeking public office -- his only previous experience was running for a local office in his small hometown, and he came in third out of three candidates -- but he's not entirely new to politics. In fact, just last year, he <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/07/1207436/-Reince-Priebus-demands-Ed-Markey-remove-video-of-Gabriel-Gomez-swiftboating-Obama-on-bin-Laden-raid" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">worked with</a> a right-wing super PAC called the "Special Operations Opsec Education Fund," which seemed to exist only to attack President Obama over the mission that killed Osama bin Laden.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This week, Gomez sought to <a href="http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2013/05/08/national-democrats-hit-gomez-opsec/MCgkIxZHlhnRR9S331Ee3O/story.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">distance himself</a> from the smear operation, saying he didn't work for the group he used to work for.</font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At a campaign event in Boston on Tuesday, Gomez addressed his involvement with the group.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As far as OPSEC, I did two interviews for OPSEC. I was never associated with OPSEC. I never donated to OPSEC. I wasn't part of OPSEC," he said. [...]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I was never connected with them in the first place. I just went on there because we overlapped on that issue about the president taking too much credit and, more importantly, they leaked information that was bad for the unit down there and it put their lives at risk," he said.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Joan McCarter <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/09/1208015/-Gomez-furiously-tries-to-distance-himself-from-his-swift-boat-organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">joked</a>, "No, he was never associated with them. He was just the person they put on national TV as <i>their spokesperson</i>."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gomez was "never connected" with the right-wing group? As a rule, political operations do not send a spokesperson to speak on their behalf on national television unless the spokesperson is, you know, connected to the group.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To answer your next question, I'm not familiar enough with Massachusetts election law to know what would happen if Gomez exits the race, but neither he nor the state Republican Party have much time to deal with these problems -- the Senate special election is on June 25.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus wants Massachusetts Democratic Senate nominee Ed Markey to take down </span><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/03/1206669/-Markey-calls-out-Gomez-for-trying-to-swiftboat-Obama-or-as-NRSC-spox-says-Markey-goes-ugly-early" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a YouTube video criticizing GOP nominee</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Gabriel Gomez for attempting to swiftboat President Obama during the 2012 election.</span></font><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Priebus <a href="http://www.gop.com/news/press-releases/rnc-statement-on-rep-markeys-shameful-attack-ad/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">is pretending</a> that Markey's video smears Gomez by showing an image of him side-by-side with Osama bin Laden, but the real story is that Markey's video showed an image of Gomez appearing on MSNBC alongside a clip from an anti-Obama swiftboating video that Gomez was defending. The video, produced by a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/us/politics/ex-military-and-cia-officers-attack-obama-over-bin-laden-leaks.html?r=0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">right-wing Super PAC called OpSec</a> in support of Mitt Romney during the 2012 president campaign, accused President Obama of leaking classified information to take more credit than he deserved for the killing of bin Laden.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As it turns out, the video Gomez was defending included images of both bin Laden and President Obama. So it's true that there was a fleeting split screen image of Gomez and bin Laden, but as you can see above, there was also an image Gomez and President Obama. It makes as much sense for Priebus to claim that Markey was trying to link Gomez with bin Laden as it would for him to claim that Markey was trying to suggest President Obama supports Gomez—or vice versa.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite all that, Priebus would have you believe that Markey's campaign <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKFYpd0q9nE" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">was doing</a> what Saxby Chambliss did to Max Cleland or what the swiftboaters did to John Kerry. But the truth is the exact opposite: Markey's video reveals Gomez's past as a spokesman for swiftboaters. It's baffling that Priebus would follow the <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/03/1206669/-Markey-calls-out-Gomez-for-trying-to-swiftboat-Obama-or-as-NRSC-spox-says-Markey-goes-ugly-early" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">National Republican Senatorial Committee's lead</a> by calling attention to a video revealing Gomez to be a typical Republican hack, but the fact that he would try to distort it is not surprising at all.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/07/1207436/-Reince-Priebus-demands-Ed-Markey-remove-video-of-Gabriel-Gomez-swiftboating-Obama-on-bin-Laden-raid</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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NO Viewpoint: Conservative Type of group: 501c; Electioneering communications only. 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Download data. <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Special Operations OPSEC Education</span> <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Fund</span> New York, NY (Legal domicile: NY). 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></div><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-snippet" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Board Members of Politically Active Nonprofits and Donor Organizations. No data reported. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the ...</font></div><div class="gs-per-result-labels" url="https://www.opensecrets.org/outside-spending/political-nonprofits/board-members?id=455552554" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gsc-webResult gsc-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; zoom: 1; position: static; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gs-webResult gs-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gsc-thumbnail-inside" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gs-title" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a class="gs-title" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=E" target="blank" dir="ltr" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php%3Fcycle%3D2012%26chrt%3DV%26disp%3DO%26type%3DE&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggMMAQ&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw35J68XeVTwxTsaCLvfwCfK" data-ctorig="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=E" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2012 Outside Spending, by Group | OpenSecrets</font></a></div></div><div class="gsc-url-top" style="line-height: inherit; 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box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="gs-image-box gs-web-image-box gs-web-image-box-portrait" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; text-align: inherit; width: 60px; position: static; height: 50px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="gs-image" href="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=E" target="blank" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php%3Fcycle%3D2012%26chrt%3DV%26disp%3DO%26type%3DE&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggMMAQ&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw35J68XeVTwxTsaCLvfwCfK" data-ctorig="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=E" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="gs-image" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAEpoirYCUKG4DX3KBA6kRnCayfxLGAREWrsJuZ67rhF8V0ncw9mSzMIs" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); height: auto; max-width: 50px; max-height: 120px;" /></font></a></div></td><td class="gsc-table-cell-snippet-close" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit; width: 900px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></div><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-snippet" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to "super PACs" (which can raise and spend unlimited funds) and regular political ... <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund</span>, $485,000, C, z, z, x.</font></div><div class="gs-per-result-labels" url="http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=E" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gsc-webResult gsc-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; zoom: 1; position: static; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gs-webResult gs-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gsc-thumbnail-inside" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gs-title" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a class="gs-title" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php?cycle=2012" target="blank" dir="ltr" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php%3Fcycle%3D2012&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggOMAU&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw1v8ZC8xH2XwLoufcjVZpwK" data-ctorig="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php?cycle=2012" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Political Nonprofits: Top Election Spenders | OpenSecrets</font></a></div></div><div class="gsc-url-top" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-visibleUrl gs-visibleUrl-long" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static; overflow: hidden; word-break: break-all;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php?...</font></div></div><table class="gsc-table-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 960px;"><tbody style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><td class="gsc-table-cell-thumbnail gsc-thumbnail" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="gs-image-box gs-web-image-box gs-web-image-box-portrait" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; text-align: inherit; width: 60px; position: static; height: 50px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="gs-image" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php?cycle=2012" target="blank" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php%3Fcycle%3D2012&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggOMAU&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw1v8ZC8xH2XwLoufcjVZpwK" data-ctorig="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php?cycle=2012" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="gs-image" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAEpoirYCUKG4DX3KBA6kRnCayfxLGAREWrsJuZ67rhF8V0ncw9mSzMIs" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); height: auto; max-width: 50px; max-height: 120px;" /></font></a></div></td><td class="gsc-table-cell-snippet-close" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit; width: 900px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></div><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-snippet" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood, $6,545,371, Y, 501(c)(4) ... <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund</span>, $485,000, Y, 501(c)(4).</font></div><div class="gs-per-result-labels" url="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/nonprof_elec.php?cycle=2012" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gsc-webResult gsc-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">2012 Outside Spending, by Group | OpenSecrets</font></a></div></div><div class="gsc-url-top" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-visibleUrl gs-visibleUrl-long" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static; overflow: hidden; word-break: break-all;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?...</font></div></div><table class="gsc-table-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 960px;"><tbody style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><tr style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;"><td class="gsc-table-cell-thumbnail gsc-thumbnail" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="gs-image-box gs-web-image-box gs-web-image-box-portrait" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; text-align: inherit; width: 60px; position: static; height: 50px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="gs-image" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=U" target="blank" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php%3Fcycle%3D2012%26chrt%3DV%26disp%3DO%26type%3DU&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggQMAY&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw1yVCFse2-r-hiLy5OVpGl-" data-ctorig="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=U" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="gs-image" src="https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQPo8kl9ZCx0BMb5Tgjm3q1cWkjX_D3KkSgR1TytR3LCSQKl84BVNltT82R" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); height: auto; max-width: 50px; max-height: 120px;" /></font></a></div></td><td class="gsc-table-cell-snippet-close" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit; width: 900px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></div><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-snippet" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund</span>, $485,000, C, $0, $485,000, $0, z, z, x ... National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, $450,419, L, $450,419, $0, $0, z ...</font></div><div class="gs-per-result-labels" url="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2012&chrt=V&disp=O&type=U" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gsc-webResult gsc-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; zoom: 1; position: static; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gs-webResult gs-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gsc-thumbnail-inside" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gs-title" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden; text-decoration-line: underline;"><a class="gs-title" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00009638&cycle=2012" target="blank" dir="ltr" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php%3Fid%3DN00009638%26cycle%3D2012&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggSMAc&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw30kpnkVjoUQBUslDZS63Qd" data-ctorig="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00009638&cycle=2012" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; cursor: pointer; height: 1.2em; overflow: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Independent Expenditures for Barack Obama, 2012 Cycle ...</font></a></div></div><div class="gsc-url-top" style="line-height: inherit; 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box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="gs-image-box gs-web-image-box gs-web-image-box-portrait" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; float: left; text-align: inherit; width: 60px; position: static; height: 50px; overflow: hidden;"><a class="gs-image" href="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00009638&cycle=2012" target="blank" data-cturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php%3Fid%3DN00009638%26cycle%3D2012&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwiku9i35IXcAhXQqYMKHd6IBSEQFggSMAc&client=internal-uds-cse&cx=017286230146969096498:h0rvm83ntz4&usg=AOvVaw30kpnkVjoUQBUslDZS63Qd" data-ctorig="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00009638&cycle=2012" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; touch-action: manipulation; background-color: transparent; transition: background-color 150ms ease-in-out, border 150ms ease-in-out, color 150ms ease-in-out; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="gs-image" src="https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSAEpoirYCUKG4DX3KBA6kRnCayfxLGAREWrsJuZ67rhF8V0ncw9mSzMIs" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle; box-sizing: inherit; border: 1px solid rgb(226, 226, 226); height: auto; max-width: 50px; max-height: 120px;" /></font></a></div></td><td class="gsc-table-cell-snippet-close" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; box-sizing: inherit; width: 900px;"><div style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit;" /></font></div><div class="gs-bidi-start-align gs-snippet" dir="ltr" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CatholicVote.org Candidate Fund, $166,914, $0, $0, $0, $166,914. Chauffers ..... <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund</span>, $485,000, $0, $0, $0, $0.</font></div><div class="gs-per-result-labels" url="https://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/indexp_indiv.php?id=N00009638&cycle=2012" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;" /></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="gsc-webResult gsc-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; zoom: 1; position: static; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="gs-webResult gs-result" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; position: static;"><div class="gsc-thumbnail-inside" style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; 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For example, the "NEA <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Fund</span> for Children and Public <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Education</span>" is simply listed as "National <span style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: bolder;">Education</span> ...</font></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="70" data-ved="0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQFQhGKAEwBA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.opsecteam.org/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.opsecteam.org/&ved=0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQFghHMAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">OPSEC Team</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f hJND5c TbwUpd" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal;">https://www.opsecteam.org/</cite></font><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Special+Operations+Opsec+Education+Fund%22&oq=%22Special+Operations+Opsec+Education+Fund%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.3439j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b4" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQ7B0ISDAE" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a></font><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQqR8ISTAE" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:KnFmdQWynoQJ:https://www.opsecteam.org/+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:KnFmdQWynoQJ:https://www.opsecteam.org/%2B%26cd%3D5%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQIAhKMAQ" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></li></ol></div></div></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund</span>, Inc, is a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. Contributions are not tax deductible. Use of military ranks, titles ...</font></span></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="75" data-ved="0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQFQhLKAIwBQ" style=""><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><h3 class="r" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="http://www.politifact.com/personalities/special-operations-opsec-education-fund/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.politifact.com/personalities/special-operations-opsec-education-fund/&ved=0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQFghMMAU" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund's file | PolitiFact</font></a></h3><div class="s" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><div class="f hJND5c TbwUpd" style="height: 18px; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal;">www.politifact.com/personalities/special-operations-opsec-education-fund/</cite></font><div class="action-menu ab_ctl" style="display: inline; position: relative; margin: 1px 3px 0px; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="GHDvEf ab_button" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Special+Operations+Opsec+Education+Fund%22&oq=%22Special+Operations+Opsec+Education+Fund%22&aqs=chrome..69i57.3439j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" id="am-b5" aria-label="Result Options" aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" role="button" jsaction="m.tdd;keydown:m.hbke;keypress:m.mskpe" data-ved="0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQ7B0ITTAF" style="border-radius: 0px; cursor: default; font-weight: bold; height: 12px; line-height: 27px; margin: 1px 0px 2px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: none; user-select: none; background-image: none; border: 0px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 0px; filter: none; width: 13px; text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block;"><span class="mn-dwn-arw" style="border-color: rgb(0, 102, 33) transparent; border-style: solid; border-width: 5px 4px 0px; width: 0px; height: 0px; margin-left: 3px; top: 7.5px; margin-top: -4px; position: absolute; left: 0px;" /></a></font><div class="action-menu-panel ab_dropdown" role="menu" tabindex="-1" jsaction="keydown:m.hdke;mouseover:m.hdhne;mouseout:m.hdhue" data-ved="0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQqR8ITjAF" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: auto; top: 12px; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hhMcqm2RhmkJ:www.politifact.com/personalities/special-operations-opsec-education-fund/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:hhMcqm2RhmkJ:www.politifact.com/personalities/special-operations-opsec-education-fund/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQIAhPMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></font></li><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:www.politifact.com/personalities/special-operations-opsec-education-fund/+%22Special+Operations+Opsec+Education+Fund%22&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiNssn75IXcAhWGn4MKHWFQBgMQHwhQMAU" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;" /></li></ol></div></div></div><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="f" style="">Aug 24, 2012 - </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund</span>. A group of former special forces and CIA officers who oppose release of classified information.</font></span></div><div class="s" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; word-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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