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Top White House security official fired over critical tweets
Guardian (UK) ^ | Wednesday 23 October 2013 03.51 EDT | Haroon Siddique

Posted on 10/23/2013 5:44:15 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin

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 one tweet, he said: "'Has shitty staff.' #ObamaInThreeWords." In another, he asked "Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Weiner? Almost as bad a pairing as Samantha Powers and Cass Sunstein ...." he wrote.

He also offered support to Republican representative Darrell Issa. "Look, Issa is an ass, but he's on to something here with the @HillaryClinton whitewash of accountability for Benghazi," Joseph tweeted.

Joseph also used the account to abuse journalists, including Daily Beast reporter Josh Rogin, who broke the story of his sacking. "Just a hunch, but I have the sense lots of people would like to punch @joshrogin in the face," he tweeted earlier this month.

The White House has confirmed that Joseph was fired last week but has declined to comment further.

An administration official told Politico that Joseph had been about to move from White House duty to a senior role in the Pentagon.

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1 posted on 10/23/2013 5:44:15 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
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To: DeaconBenjamin

They were about to promote this guy.


2 posted on 10/23/2013 5:48:43 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Dang it. We finally find someone honest on the White House staff and they go and fire him. /s


3 posted on 10/23/2013 5:50:38 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: All

Jofi Joseph, Obama's director of nuclear non-proliferation.

4 posted on 10/23/2013 5:51:53 AM PDT by Liz
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"Jofi described #ObamaInThreeWords----'Has *hitty staff.'

But the kicker was when Jofi described Michele as a grasping
*itch, and, Obama's two daughters as "ugly darkies" (/snix)

5 posted on 10/23/2013 6:01:24 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Bflr


6 posted on 10/23/2013 6:04:27 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberal: greedy person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
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To: ken in texas

LOL Yeah That’s about the size of it.

However think about someone heading the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty being dumb enough to get caught twittering like that.


7 posted on 10/23/2013 6:04:37 AM PDT by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Former Proud Canadian

If Bush were President, the guy would get a TV show.


8 posted on 10/23/2013 6:05:05 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: Liz

Muslim?


9 posted on 10/23/2013 6:08:00 AM PDT by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: DeaconBenjamin
This guy serves as further proof that under Obama, there is no such thing as a security clearance.
10 posted on 10/23/2013 6:08:19 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Chickensoup

Joseph is a common last name among Lebanese Christians, and he looks as if he could be Lebanese.

Funny, in any case. Poor Bambi - the truth hurts! And everybody around him is obviously afraid to tell it to him.


11 posted on 10/23/2013 6:14:08 AM PDT by livius
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To: Chickensoup
Jofi could very well be Muslim. Obama's obsession w/ his
religion includes giving "fellow believers" high level US govt jobs.

Ohaha's most trusted foreign policy advisors.

12 posted on 10/23/2013 6:14:33 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Is there anyone alive who doesn’t see that this one screwed-up bunch of sick puppies?


13 posted on 10/23/2013 6:25:22 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Liz
That kid?! Director of Nuclear non Proliferation?! Does that boy even shave yet?
14 posted on 10/23/2013 6:33:03 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: DeaconBenjamin

Anyone know how to see all of his tweets somehow? I know he deleted his account but I sure would like to read them...


15 posted on 10/23/2013 6:35:14 AM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
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Ohaha's most trusted foreign policy advisors.

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And here's Hillary and Bill's live-in house Mullim.

Gehad el-Haddad
The stupid Clintons did not know Gehad was Farsi for "jihad."

NOTE the Clintons have three (count 'em) three tax-exempt foundations worth millions to siphon off money from to keep themselves and fellow Dems in power.

HORROR OF HORRORS The NYT just outed the Clinton tax-exempts for shady dealings. AND the Clintons even employed a Muslim Brotherhood activist at their do-good tax exempt.

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo, charged with inciting violence. Gehad el-Haddad served as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top communications officials; he was a top Brotherhood official and adviser to Barack Obama's hand-picked Egyptian candidate, Morsi (now deposed).

Gehad el-Haddad served for five years as a top official at the Clinton Foundation, a tax-exempt do-good foundation founded by former President Bill Clinton. El-Haddad pushed the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist agenda in the foreign press, where he was often quoted defending the Brotherhood’s crackdown on civil liberties in Egypt.

Gehad became the public face of the Islamist terrorist organization soon after leaving his post at the Clinton Foundation.

Much of Gehad's official terroristic-type work with the Muslim Brotherhood took place while he was still claiming to be employed by the Clinton Foundation.

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CLINTONS SCURRYING FOR COVER Gehad's intimacy w/ the Clintons also explains why the Clintons just remade themselves into the hallowed "Clinton Family Foundation."

The "Holy Family."

The more cynical among us might wonder if the Clintons' Foundations were money laundering for the Muslim Brotherhood.

NY POST EXCERPT ----The Bill Clinton Foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses — Bill Clinton’s foundation has spent more than $50 million on travel expenses since 2003, an analysis of the nonprofit’s tax forms reveal.....includes $4.2 million in 2011 for the William J. Clinton Foundation (to which Hillary and Chelsea are attached); $730,000 for the Clinton Global Health Initiative; and $7.2 million for the Clinton Health Action Initiative (CHAI).

The Clintons' 24/7 self-promotion--a familiar do-good liberal schtick: whining about "helping" the needy, and hoping to make a buck on it.

16 posted on 10/23/2013 7:11:24 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Venturer

However think about someone heading the Nuclear Non-proliferation treaty being dumb enough to get caught twittering like that.

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Yes, I was wondering about that, as well. Surely, anyone in the Soros Administration should know how long the Dear Leader’s reach is.


17 posted on 10/23/2013 7:25:38 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Let me hear what God the LORD will speak. -Ps85)
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To: PowderMonkey
That kid?! Director of Nuclear non Proliferation?! Does that boy even shave yet?

In The Loop - Whitehouse Scene

(language warning!)

18 posted on 10/23/2013 8:34:25 AM PDT by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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