前白宮官員網上匿名謾罵高官被撤職
A White House nationAl security official was fired last week after being caught as the mystery Tweeter who has been tormenting the foreign policy community with insulting comments and revealing internal Obama administration information for over two years.
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.
“I'm a fan of Obama, but his continuing reliance and dependence upon a vacuous cipher like Valerie Jarrett concerns me,” he once tweeted.
“Was Huma Abedin wearing beer goggles the night she met Anthony Wiener? Almost as bad a pairing as Samantha Powers and Cass Sunstein ...,” he tweeted on another occasion, insulting a top Clinton aide, a then Congressman, and two White House senior officials in one tweet.
“So when will someone do us the favor of getting rid of Sarah Palin and the rest of her white trash family? What utter useless garbage ... ,” he tweeted last October.
“My friends call me Batman,” he once tweeted.兩年多來，一名神祕的白宮官員利用推特賬號在網上接連批評、謾罵美國外交策略委員會成員，還泄露奧巴馬政府內部信息。這位“內鬼”近日終於被查出，並於上週被撤職，推特賬號也已關閉。
涉事官員爲白宮國家安全委員會負責核不擴散的官員約菲•約瑟夫，他曾供職於美國國務院和國會，還曾在副總統約瑟夫•拜登和參議員鮑勃•凱西名下工作。兩名政府官員證實這一神祕推特用戶是約瑟夫。自2011年2月以來，約瑟夫通過賬號“natsecwonk”持續在網絡上發佈評論，直到上週該賬號被關閉，在華盛頓政治圈內非常出名。此前不久，約瑟夫正參與美國和伊朗的談判。
兩年多來，他公開批評上級的政策，點評他們的智商和着裝。被他罵過的高官人數衆多，包括：前國家安全顧問湯姆•多尼隆、國家安全副顧問本•羅茲、以及國務卿約翰•克里。
約瑟夫曾在推特上說：“我是奧巴馬的粉絲，但他一直依賴瓦萊麗•加勒特那種大腦空洞的傢伙，真叫我擔心。”（加勒特是奧巴馬總統的高級顧問。）
他還曾在一條推文中同時點評了克林頓的1位助手、1位國會議員還有2名白宮高官。“胡瑪•阿貝丁肯定醉的不成樣子，纔會看上安東尼•韋納。他倆簡直跟薩曼莎•鮑爾和卡斯•桑斯坦一樣糟糕。”
“什麼時候纔能有人幫幫我們，趕走薩拉•佩林和她全家白人垃圾？真是廢物，一點用都沒有……”（佩林曾任阿拉斯加州州長，2008年與麥凱恩搭檔角逐美國大選，最終輸給奧巴馬。）他去年十月份在推特上寫道。
他還曾經在推特上說：“我的朋友們叫我蝙蝠俠。”
