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n2doc

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Wed Oct 23, 2013, 06:43 AM Oct 2013

Top White House security official fired over critical tweets

A senior White House national security official has been fired after being unmasked as the voice behind a Twitter account that embarrassed the Obama administration by aiming stinging criticism at government figures.

As director of nuclear non-proliferation, Jofi Joseph was helping to negotiate nuclear issues with Iran. But for more than two years, he also sent hundreds of tweets, many of them containing personal insults, using the Twitter handle @NatSecWonk.

In his Twitter biography, which has been taken down, Joseph described himself as a "keen observer of the foreign policy and national security scene" who "unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks".

In one tweet, he said: "'Has shitty staff.' #ObamaInThreeWords." In another, he made fun of the choice of husband by one of Hillary Clinton's top aide, comparing their partnership unflatteringly to two senior White House officials.


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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/23/white-house-security-official-fired-tweets

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Top White House security official fired over critical tweets (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2013 OP
shithead, he was probably also on the RNC payroll also gopiscrap Oct 2013 #1
What is really disgusting is that he was sent back to work at the Pentagon. DURHAM D Oct 2013 #2

DURHAM D

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2. What is really disgusting is that he was sent back to work at the Pentagon.
Wed Oct 23, 2013, 08:25 AM
Oct 2013

He should no longer be employed by the government as I don't want to pay his salary and benefits.

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