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| White House mole fired for 'snarky |
| White House mole fired for 'snarky tweets' is an Indian-American
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-November-2013
9:24:22 AM |
| It turns out that a White House mole, fired recently for snarky anonymous tweets about top Obama administration officials and its policies, is an Indian-American policy wonk.
Jofi Joseph, 40, who served as a non-proliferation expert on the National Security Council, was a key aide of President Barack Obama, whose administration has more Indian-Americans in key jobs than any other previous US administration.
Mr Joseph, who was said to be part of the team working on negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, was fired after it was discovered that he was the author of @NatSecWonk Twitter feed known for its snarky blasts about the Obama administration.
Under the cover of his alias, Mr Joseph, over two years, took aim at high-ranking administration officials and Republicans alike, slamming their intellect and criticising their appearance.
"I'm a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me," he once reportedly tweeted of the president's senior adviser.
Summing up his colleagues, he tweeted another time, "'Has shitty staff.' #ObamaInThreeWords."
Again, it was Mr Joseph who reportedly supplied some of the ammunition to Republicans for torpedoing the nomination of Susan Rice, President Obama's first choice to succeed Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, over her handling of the government's response to the terrorist attack on the US consulate in Benghazi in Libya.
Mr Joseph did not spare Ms Rice either when President Obama appointed her National Security Adviser (NSA) a few months later.
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