White House Official = Twitter Troll?

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This is disturbing news:

Jofi Joseph, a director in the non-proliferation section of the National Security Staff at the White House, has been surreptitiously tweeting under the moniker @natsecwonk, a Twitter feed famous inside Washington policy circles since it began in February, 2011 until it was shut down last week.
Two administration officials confirmed that the mystery tweeter was Joseph, who has also worked at the State Department and on Capitol Hill for Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Joe Biden. Until recently, he was part of the administration’s team working on negotiations with Iran.

Read the whole thing. Joseph was doing a New Media Age version of an old game played by disgruntled D.C. types, the anonymous “leak” that disparages one’s colleagues or superiors. During the Reagan years, there were always anonymous “sources” who would badmouth the administration’s policy and personnel in quotes to reporters at the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Such behavior is disgracefully selfish, because the leaker’s motive — petty revenge and the advancement of personal ambition — is never made apparent in the press coverage based on blind sources. Backstabbing the boss, or sabotaging one’s peers, is not something that lying cowards are ever willing to do under their own names.

Via Memeorandum, with more blog commentary at Outside the Beltway, Right Wing News, Weasel Zippers and Ann Althouse.

 


26 comments

  1. He thought Mr. Obama was a decent person, but was concerned about Valerie Jarret. Hmm. I wonder who’s really in charge.

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  3. Jarrett is. I’ve heard a LOT of nasty stuff about that harpy. Word is…she has her own “Oval Office” and people are genuinely afraid of her.

    Interestingly, this guy (who is a real piece of work, btw) isn’t the only one who works for the administration and now realizes how bad they are. I’ve heard there are others.

  6. Oh, where, oh where is His Semi-Mammalianness? A spammer named “DooMM” is inside the wire…

  7. The bouncer will along with his ban-hammer soon enough. Just have another drink. It’s 5 pm somewhere in the world. 😉

  10. Y’know… If you hold down the ALT key and tap in ‘0233’, you get the “é” character…

  11. Well, he DID do it to Republicans. In fact he did it to everyone. Conservatives, progressives, media, everyone. And I don’t have a problem with that. What I have a problem with…is that this guy kept taking the money. He had major issues and massive disdain for these people he was working with/for and he just kept taking the money.

    Kind of makes him the bigger scumbag.

  13. Interesting that he was fired. One of the ways this administration keeps disgruntled former employees from running to the media –notice how few there considering how heavy-handed and roguish this administration is– is to NOT fire them. Can’t help but believe that at some point, probably pretty soon, the floodgates will open and there will be a torrent of tell-all books and interviews.

  17. There’s always the default, “‘Tooshay!” for those who can’t handle an extended key set…

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