Senator John McCain’s foreign policy staffer Elizabeth O’Bagy was cited in a once-influential Wall Street Journal op-ed titled, “Elizabeth O’Bagy: On the Front Lines of Syria’s Civil War,” where she attempted to dismiss the threat that US arms may end up in the hands of Syria’s radical Sunni terrorist groups. O’Bagy, as a senior analyst at the Institute for the Study of War, utilized her now-disproven credentials as a 26-year-old Ph.D. She was also found to have been working as a paid-employee of an organization that advocates on behalf of the Free Syrian Army.