@natsecwonk canned
This has been bothering me for a couple of days now. This fellow, Jofi Joseph, has been tweeting embarrassing stuff about the Obama Administration from inside the White House for years until this last week under the Twitter handle @natsecwonk. He was mean and no one was sacred (except the president, of course). So, according to the Washington Post, they planted false information to find Joseph. And then they fired him.
Now, no one has been fired for the failures of Benghazi, no one but a whistle blower was fired for the Fast & Furious debacle, no one has been fired at the IRS for terrorizing conservative groups, but this guy gets fired for being mean on the internet.
It is not clear whether the sting led directly to the unmasking last week of Jofi Joseph, 40, who was identified as the creative force behind @natsecwonk and was fired from his position on the administration’s Iran negotiations team. But the lengths to which White House officials went to find Joseph reveal how much of an embarrassment his Twitter feed had become inside the West Wing and across the street at the stately Eisenhower Executive Office Building, where Joseph worked alongside his NSC colleagues while secretly skewering them online.
“It was like they were hunting for bin Laden in a cave and he was right in the belly of the beast all along ,” said a former NSC official who worked with Joseph, marveling that he was able to keep his identity secret for over two years.
But, his only crime was that he was disloyal to the Obama Administration. The other things I mentioned, Fast & Furious and Benghazi, actually cost Americans their lives, but somehow what this guy did was worse.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden
Hondo-just because lefties are quick fire up the outrage bus at every opportunity, it doesn’t mean that outrages don’t occur.
Again, only the courts can compel a journalist to compromise their confidentiality and that isn’t what happened here. I’m not inclined to give the benefit of doubt to an organization that this reporter had revealed was engaged in improper behavior when they gain access to her confidential sources without judicial approval.
There are key principles that are the foundation of how our system of limited government is supposed to work to include serious safeguards against abuse of authority. Both the press and the courts have important roles to play in those processes and the more I see authority abused the more seriously I take those roles.