As someone "who worked on the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under President Barack Obama," it sounds like he wasn't particularly close to the top and there would have been multiple layers of staff between him and the president. Hundreds of people work in presidential administrations. Also that screenshot doesn't give any indication that anyone is "scrubbing" anything, just that you're searching a current event
Google and the WH are scrubbing all links between him and Obama
As someone "who worked on the National Security Council South Asia Directorate under President Barack Obama," it sounds like he wasn't particularly close to the top and there would have been multiple layers of staff between him and the president. Hundreds of people work in presidential administrations. Also that screenshot doesn't give any indication that anyone is "scrubbing" anything, just that you're searching a current event
My search returns pages and pages. Probably just a user error on your part.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=Stuart+Seldowitz+Obama
Gross