those movies came to mind today because of this woman who has regularly appeared on cnn and other networks. i travel with groups where we actually can kind of identify the more extremist checkpoints. elizabeth o bagy. as the obama administration prepared its case for military reforce, she wrote an op ed for the wall street journal in which she pushed back against the narrative that the rebels are al qaeda-led extremists. she argued that quote moderate opposition groups make up the majority of actual fighting forces. there is a real moderate opposition that exists. the op ed was cited just days later by senator john mccain and secretary of state john kerry as kerry testified before congress. dr. elizabeth o bagy. she works with the institute of war, fluent in arabic. but she also works for an organization that advocates for the syrian rebels. the syrian emergency task force.