http://theweek.com/article/index/251520/the-revealing-occasionally-hateful-formerly-anonymous-tweets-of-a-white-house-insiderThe revealing, occasionally hateful, formerly anonymous tweets of a White House insider
October 23, 2013, at 1:31 AM
Marc Ambinder
The author of the @natsecwonk Twitter account, a gossipy, often invective-laced anonymous Washington beat sheet, could have been a thousand people. The bio line: "A keen observer of of the foreign policy and national security scene. I'm abrasive and bring the snark. Unapologetically says what everyone else only thinks."
Maybe it was a journalist who covered the State Department, or a low-level contractor, or a disgruntled junior researcher at a think tank. It could even have been me (and one of its targets thought it was, for a while).
Turns out it was someone who really was in a position to dish.
The Daily Beast disclosed yesterday that @natsecwonk was the online ego of Jofi Joseph, 40, a senior director of non-proliferation policy on the National Security Staff.
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