A senior White House national security official was fired for posting insulting and controversial comments on Twitter about US officials for two years.
Jofi Joseph, 40, was the director of nuclear non-proliferation on the White House National Security Council staff. The firing was first reported by the website Daily Beast.
Joseph was sacked for criticizing White House policies, insulting Administration officials and leaking internal information on Twitter. His twitter account was active for more than two years before he was caught.
In his Twitter biography, now removed from the social networking website, Joseph described himself as a “keen observer of the foreign policy and national security scene” who “unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks.”
In one of his tweets earlier this month, Joseph wrote that Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, “had few policy goals and no wins” in the Middle East.
He agreed with Republican Representative Darrell Issa, who has relentlessly pursued Clinton for administration actions after last year’s attack on the US diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. “Look, Issa is an ass, but he’s on to something here with the @HillaryClinton whitewash of accountability for Benghazi,” he tweeted.
He also sniped at US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power’s use of Twitter. “Can someone again brief @AmbassadorPower that Bashar Assad likely doesn’t follow her Twitter feed?” he recently wrote.
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Source: Press TV