The Daily Beast (sorry) has an exclusive.
The mystery tweeter who has been tweeting out revealing and insulting personal tweets has been discovered and fired from The White House.
Apparently it was obvious that it was somebody with inside knowledge and his colleagues were dumfounded when they found out who @natsecwonk actually was.
You know where to go to find out...............
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.
During his time tweeting under the @natsecwonk name, Joseph openly criticized the policies of his White House bosses and often insulted their intellect and appearance. At different times, he insulted or criticized several top White House and State Department officials, including former National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, Secretary of State John Kerry, and many many others.
For many in the foreign policy community reacting Tuesday night, the revelation that Joseph was the mystery tweeter @natsecwonk was a shock 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 a plonker, fancy losing a great job and your reputation because you couldn't resist being a hot shot on twitter.
Apparently the administration hasn't got much sympathy for the guy getting fired after he betrayed their confidence.
The Daily Beast has a few of the tweets up, here's a sample...
“@MiekeEoyang Come on, I expected better of you. @jrubinblogger is CRAZY unhinged while @noonanjo is an overweight paid Romney shill,”
he was an equal opportunity twit though...
“Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Wiener? Almost as bad a pairing as Samantha Powers and Cass Sunstein ....,”
I suppose some of them were sort of funny, sort of. I'm curious as to how they found out it was him, the article didn't say.
One of his tweets said
“My friends call me Batman,”
They call him fired now.
7:27 PM PT: The Twit has been interview by Politico
http://www.politico.com/...
“It has been a privilege to serve in this Administration and I deeply regret violating the trust and confidence placed in me,” Joseph told POLITICO in an email.
“What started out as an intended parody account of DC culture developed over time into a series of inappropriate and mean-spirited comments. I bear complete responsibility for this affair and I sincerely apologize to everyone I insulted.”
and this, what an idiot, he was going places...
Joseph had been scheduled to rotate out of White House duty to a senior job in the Pentagon, an administration official told POLITICO.
Wed Oct 23, 2013 at 8:05 AM PT: Final update for anyone still reading.
Here's a link to all of the tweets...............
http://www.scribd.com/...