Submission + - White House Official Tracked Down and Fired over Insulting Tweets 1
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes: BBC reports that Jofi Joseph, a senior National Security Council staffer who was a key member of the White House team negotiating on Iran’s nuclear weapons program, has been fired that after a probe that included an investigation into his travel and shopping patterns – parsed from over 2,000 tweets. Joseph was fired from his job on the NSC nuclear non-proliferation team a week ago after a months-long probe into a barrage of tweets that included caustic criticisms of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and top NSC officials, especially Ben Rhodes – whom he accused of dodging questions about Benghazi. Joseph, who posted under the now defunct Twitter name @NatSecWonk, gave a lacerating commentary on anything from policy to personal appearance. "Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Weiner," he tweeted, referring to the scandal-hit former New York mayoral candidate and his wife, a former aide of Hillary Clinton. He tweeted that Mrs Clinton "had few policy goals and no wins" in the Middle East. He said Chelsea Clinton was "assuming all of her parents' vices" and targeted figures such as Republican commentator Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney's wife Ann for their looks and weight. Many in the foreign policy community reacted with shock to the revelation that Joseph was the mystery tweeter because Joseph was well known among policy wonks and his wife, Carolyn Leddy, is a well-respected professional staffer on the Republican side of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "What started out as an intended parody account of DC culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments," said Joseph in an apology. "I bear complete responsibility for this affair and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted."
