​Jofi Joseph has been outed as the man behind @NatSecWonk, the anonymous and biting Twitter account that took aim both at Obama administration officials and Republicans. Making matters worse for the president, Joseph was part of his national security staff. He has since been fired.

Public relations – actions of an organization or individual in promoting goodwill between itself and the organisation's publics (PR rarely has the resources to focus on the "general public" and so segments populations into "target publics" being those specific groups of like-minded people with an ability to "help" or hurt" the organisation from sustaining itself within its operating environment), the community (e.g. neighbours), media, government (three-tiers), competitors, staff and employees, suppliers and contractors, investors, and so on.

On a sunny afternoon in October 2012, 68-year-old Mamana Bibi was killed in a drone strike that appears to have been aimed directly at her. Her grandchildren recounted in painful detail to Amnesty International the moment when Mamana Bibi, who was gathering vegetables in the family fields in Ghundi Kala village, northwest Pakistan, was blasted into pieces before their eyes. Nearly a year later, Mamana Bibi’s family has yet to receive any acknowledgment that it was the US that killed her, let alone justice or compensation for her death.

On the evening of August 29, 2012, five men gathered in a grove of date palms behind the local mosque in Khashamir, a village in southeast Yemen. Moments later, US remotely piloted aircraft, commonly known as drones, launched three Hellfire missiles at the group.  The strike killed four of the men instantly, hurling their body parts across the grounds. The blast of a fourth missile hit the fifth man as he crawled away, pinning him lifeless to a wall. Yemen’s Defense Ministry described three of the men as members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Yemen-based armed group that has been fighting the Yemeni government, and which the United States calls the most active affiliate of Al-Qaeda. The men were killed, it said, while “meeting their fellows.”

The ridiculous fiasco which attended the attempt at aerial navigation in the Langley flying machine was not unexpected. unless possibly by the distinguished Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who devised it, and his assistants. Prof. MANLY, who undertook the voyage, prudently clothed himself in a cork jacket—doubtless because cork is a good non-conductor and would tend to keep the wearer warm in the rarefied strata of the upper atmosphere in which he perhaps expected to cruise.