Questions must be answered on ex-Twitter lawyer James Baker’s role in censorship scandals

Let’s award 3.14159 stars to Elon Musk for firing Twitter’s lawyer, James Baker, Tuesday.

However there are nonetheless a number of questions that should be answered concerning the function of Baker, the FBI’s former Russiagate protagonist, in — not one, however two — censorship scandals.

First, having been parachuted into Twitter conveniently 5 months earlier than the 2020 election as deputy common counsel and vp, Baker performed an instrumental function within the censorship of The Publish’s Hunter Biden laptop computer story in October 2020.

Second, Baker was concerned within the potential suppression of fabric that Musk ordered launched from Twitter’s recordsdata final Friday to disclose who was concerned in killing The Publish’s story and thus stopping derogatory materials about candidate Joe Biden from being disseminated broadly. The “most necessary knowledge was hidden [and] could have been deleted,” Musk says.

When Musk requested Baker what he was as much as, “his clarification was . . . unconvincing.”

Musk claims he realized solely Sunday that Baker had intervened to suppress “info necessary to the general public dialogue.”

However it was apparent Friday that somebody had excised point out of the FBI from the “Twitter Recordsdata,” and it wasn’t laborious to guess who, when you realized Twitter’s lawyer was Baker, who had been the FBI’s prime lawyer concerned in each one of many bureau’s Russia-collusion plots towards Donald Trump. It’s laborious to not see his function as a gatekeeper planted at Twitter to make sure info useful to Trump’s re-election by no means noticed the sunshine of day.

The New York Post's cover for Oct. 15, 2020
The New York Publish’s cowl for Oct. 15, 2020.

Jack Dorsey, the genius inventor of Twitter, posed a query Wednesday that lower to the guts of Musk’s halting efforts to reveal the reality.

“If the purpose is transparency to construct belief,” tweeted Dorsey, who nonetheless owns a small stake within the social-media firm and give up as CEO final yr, “why not simply launch all the things with out filter and let individuals choose for themselves? Together with all discussions round present and future actions? Make all the things public now.”

Musk, who paid $44 billion for Twitter in October, main wags to say he purchased a “crime scene, not an organization,” replied to his predecessor eight hours later.

“Most necessary knowledge was hidden (from you too) and a few could have been deleted, however all the things we discover might be launched.”

Matt Taibbi attends the Build Series to discuss the new documentary 'Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge' at Build Studio on Oct. 31, 2017 in New York City.
Reporter Matt Taibbi claimed he had seen no “authorities involvement within the laptop computer story.”
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Musk’s promise is sweet information, and it’s a bit wealthy for Dorsey to be demanding transparency now, when he was in cost in 2020 when Baker was employed and when the subterfuge was occurring ­beneath his nostril.

However we do want greater than haphazard Twitter threads curated by Substack journalist Matt Taibbi, who was deputized by Musk to ­launch the Twitter Recordsdata.

Taibbi’s declare that he had seen no “authorities involvement within the laptop computer story” rang alarm bells as a result of we all know that the FBI “pre-bunked” the laptop computer story throughout weekly conferences with Twitter earlier than the election.

Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-head of web site integrity, has said in a sworn declaration that the FBI warned them to look out for “hacked” materials, doubtless in October, involving Hunter Biden. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg equally has admitted the FBI warned Face­guide about an impending “dump” of Russian disinformation that “match the sample” of The Publish’s Hunter Biden story. Time for Zuckerberg to come back clear.

Joe Biden walks with Hunter Biden and his wife Melissa Cohen after having lunch in Nantucket, Massachusetts on Nov. 25, 2022.
Joe Biden strolled the streets of Nantucket, Massachusetts with Hunter on Nov. 25.
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There is also mounting proof from whistleblowers, and from Senate Republicans, that the FBI colluded with congressional Democrats via 2020 to guard Joe Biden from proof of his involvement in his household’s corrupt ­worldwide influence-peddling scheme.

Sens. Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley have disclosed that they had been ambushed by two FBI brokers on Aug. 6, 2020, with a bogus “defensive briefing” to “falsely assault [as] Russian disinformation” their investigation into Hunter Biden’s monetary connections to China and Ukraine. Information of the FBI briefing was then leaked to Democrat-friendly media efficiently to discredit, prematurely, their correct and prescient Sept. 23, 2020, report “Hunter Biden, Burisma, and Corruption: The Affect on U.S. Authorities Coverage and Associated Considerations.”

Three weeks after that report was launched and ignored by a media primed by the FBI to consider it was “Russian disinformation” got here The Publish’s story and its fast censorship by Face­guide and Twitter, citing a brand new “hacked supplies” coverage.

For this reason Musk’s promise to disclose the interior workings of the censorship of The Publish’s Hunter Biden laptop computer story is so necessary for mounting a case of FBI corruption.


Compensate for Twitter’s censorship of The Publish’s Hunter Biden laptop computer story


We all know that Baker weighed in on the aspect of censorship when Twitter executives had been frantically discussing deal with The Publish’s story on Oct. 14, 2020, however we don’t know the total extent of his affect.

Is there proof he was speaking with individuals on the FBI or anybody related to the Biden marketing campaign? What different proof is there of FBI interference?

When the White Home was requested concerning the Twitter Recordsdata, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre airily dismissed the scandal as “previous information.”

The president’s response has been extra flagrant. He has been flagrantly parading his son in entrance of the cameras.

Jack Dorsey
Jack Dorsey was in cost in 2020 when James Baker was employed.
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There was Hunter strolling the streets of Nantucket along with his ­father. There he was on the White Home balcony watching fireworks. There he was on Marine One coming back from a weekend with dad at Camp David, the place journalists don't have any entry to customer logs.

There he was in a tuxedo on the White Home, glad-handing visitors on the French state dinner final week, and there he was shmoozing with Hollywood celebrities on the Kennedy Middle Honors occasions Sunday.

However nothing modifications the truth that the FBI credibly now stands accused of interfering within the 2020 election on behalf of Joe Biden and conspiring to violate the First Modification.

FBI Director Chris Wray and his boss, Lawyer Common Merrick Garland, have been oddly silent about this grave allegation.

If it's not true, they need to say so, and reassure tens of millions of involved Individuals that the FBI shouldn't be a corrupt arm of the Democratic Celebration.

The issue is that the FBI is the lead company within the US tasked with investigating election interference. So who will examine the FBI?

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