On September 3rd, Senator John McCain referenced the work of Elizabeth O’Bagy, citing her column in the Wall Street Journal to help make his case for an attack on Syria. A short time later, her work at the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF) indicated she wasn’t the objective observer she was portrayed to be.

Since then, the SETF, which lobbies Congress on behalf of the Syrian rebels has undergone multiple changes; several links now direct readers to the group’s homepage.

The staff has now gone from four to one in one week.

As of September 7th…

Syrian Emergency Task Force Staff when it was a staff of four.

As of September 10th, Ahmad Soliman, whose background is quite suspicious, was suddenly gone…

Syrian Emergency Task Force when there were three…

By September 13th, Cassie Chesley was out at SETF…

Syrian Emergency Task Force: And then there were two…

O’Bagy, who was fired from her other gig at the Institute on the Study of War on September 11th, has since been jettisoned from the SETF website and – like her cohorts – unceremoniously.

As of September 16th, Mouaz Moustafa is the only member of the SETF staff…

SETF: Now a Staff of one.

Now, thanks to Moustafa’s increasingly alarming connections, SETF may eventually become the first organization in history to have a staff of zero.

Here is McCain, the one-man SETF wrecking crew in the Senate hearing that started it all: