White House Insider With Secret Inappropriate Twitter Account Fired

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“In his day job at the White House, Jofi Joseph was known as a generally collegial guy, a junior but experienced staff member working on some of the nation’s most serious business — specifically arms proliferation, and especially involving Iran.

But after hours? That is when he became @NatSecWonk: “I’m abrasive and I bring the snark,” he wrote anonymously on his now-closed Twitter account. “Unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks” on “the foreign policy and national security scene.”

Now that Mr. Joseph has been unmasked as @NatSecWonk, call him unemployed.”.* Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Ben Mankiewicz and John Iadarola break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Jackie Calmes / NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/24/us/secret-white-house-tweeter-and-national-security-council-official-loses-job.html

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