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| WH national security staffer reportedly fired for Twitter postings under alias |
| 2013-10-23 |
| [WAPO] A White House national security staffer was reportedly fired over Twitter postings, including unflattering views about Obama administration policies and administration officials, made under an alias. The Daily Beast reported Tuesday night that Jofi Joseph, a nonproliferation expert at the National Security Council, was fired last week. So administration officials CAN actually be fired ? Joseph did not respond to requests for comment. A White House official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the matter involves a personnel matter, said only that Joseph no longer works there. He be gone man! Just don't go there. The Twitter feed @natsecwonk, a guilty pleasure among national security analysts, reporters and others, disappeared last week. Searches for it Tuesday on Twitter yielded messages that there was no such user. Luckily, Twitter pulled everything before the IRS Web Enforcement Branch (IRSWEB) was notified. The Twitter feed had rankled Obama administration officials and career State Department higher-ups, some of whom suspected that @natsecwonk was a current or former department official. Among the tens, possibly hundreds of millions of twitter users, please tell us how Mr. Joseph was identified. The feed ran for more than two years. The posts appeared often, but not daily. Some were flippant comments about news stories or analyses done by WashingtonÂ’s large foreign policy commentariat. Others were musings on the policy workings of the administration. Musings to some possibly. The administration had recently tried to track the source of the anonymous tweets, a current and a former official said, but it was not clear whether that effort led to @natsecwonkÂ’s unmasking. I suspect friends at Fort Meade were very helpful. The posts never included classified or highly sensitive information, making a true leak investigation difficult to mount, but they often contained insider details. The type of things we see on Fox News every night ? The level of detail led to speculation that the poster was a Hill staffer with access to White House briefings, but also may have raised suspicion that the tweets were coming from within the White House. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 So administration officials CAN actually be fired? Only if they bore into your ego. Some of the tweets were hilarious. Newsmax has a sampling of some of these tweets: Sampling of Joseph tweets The administration spent a long time tracking this inside guy down. I only wish they would spend as much time on governing. ""I'm a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me." "'Has shitty staff.' #ObamaInThreeWords." |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-23 17:04 |