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December 7, 2022
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When Miranda Devine commented on Elon Musk’s first installment of Twitter emails released through journalist Matt Taibbi last Friday, she said she thought there was still a piece missing --- that he was holding something back. And Musk himself had announced there would be more to come.

Devine’s intuition was spot-on. And on Tuesday, there was something else, but it didn't come in the form of more documents.  It was the news that the initial release of documents concerning information that had been censored at Twitter had been, ironically, censored at Twitter, by someone still working there. Would it surprise you to know that this person turned out to be JAMES BAKER?

So on Tuesday, Musk fired Baker, who had served as Twitter’s deputy general counsel. The most surprising part of this development is the fact that Baker –- of all people –- wasn’t already gone, as part of the first big wave of top-level firing that Musk carried out right away. It would be interesting to know why Musk hadn’t quite gotten around to firing him yet, as surely there is a method to his madness. But Musk announced Baker’s "exiting" in a tweet (naturally) on Tuesday, citing “concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue.”

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600237095364096000

Taibbi summed Baker up this way on Tuesday afternoon: “Baker is a controversial figure. He has been something of a Zelig [shadowy figure who’s always around] of FBI controversies dating back to 2016, from the Steele Dossier to the Alfa-Server mess. He resigned in 2018 after an investigation into leaks to the press.”

As it turns out, the “crucial element.” as Devine calls it, was missing because Baker had gone through the materials before they were handed off to Taibbi and his colleague Bari Weiss, holding part of it back. That’s the “suppression” Musk was talking about in reference to him. And the part that Baker had made sure was missing apparently had to do with (surprise!) the FBI.

Weiss found this out by accident. She learned that someone in charge of releasing the files was named Jim. When she called to ask Jim’s last name, she was told it was Baker. “My jaw hit the floor,” she said.

A NEW YORK POST update has more background on Baker.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/06/elon-musk-fires-twitter-lawyer-james-baker-over-hunter-biden/

This explains why Taibbi tweeted after reviewing the first installment of documents that he’d seen no role played by the government in the censorship. Those of us who’ve been following this story and knew better were scratching our heads over that remark, wondering if Musk himself had redacted the information for some reason. No, it was Baker who had prevented Taibbi and Weiss from seeing it.

As the POST reports, “Twitter tapped Baker to help lead its legal team in June 2020, a month after the social-media company generated controversy for labeling two Trump tweets claiming that mail-in ballots will lead to a ‘rigged election’ as promoting misinformation.” I think, though, that we’re going to learn more about why this particular person was hired at this particular time.

Devine appeared with Tucker Carlson Tuesday night to discuss Baker’s newly-discovered subversion. We knew, of course, through other means --- accounts from various whistleblowers and the testimony of former Twitter employee Yoel Roth, for example –- that the FBI had been briefing Twitter and other social media companies weekly about the expected “Russian disinformation,” possibly even involving Hunter Biden, cropping up in October. And we knew they said this KNOWING that the laptop was real, Devine’s story was legitimate, the information was not hacked, and it did not come from Russia.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/hunter-biden-laptop-fbi/2022/12/05/id/1099218/

Now we know why the “Twitter Files” first released to Taibbi contained essentially nothing about this. There was just the one “privileged and confidential” email from Baker (date and time removed, oddly) that’s been widely quoted, reacting to Devine’s breaking story and saying it was advisable to use their anti-hacking policy as a reason to censor it. Devine said Tuesday that “it was pretty obvious who was suppressing that information, who was the person with the biggest motive. It was Twitter’s top lawyer, James Baker, who...had been the top lawyer at the FBI, the ‘quarterback’ of the FBI Russia collusion scandal.”

Recall that when Baker left the FBI (putting himself conveniently out of reach of any internal investigation), he landed a job at the Clinton-connected Brookings Institution, home of Igor Danchenko and Charles Dolan of “dossier” fame. Then, five months before the 2020 election, he was hired at Twitter. I would note that this was around the time it would’ve been obvious to Biden’s people that they had a serious scandal on their hands with the laptop –- one that had to be contained.

Devine concluded, “Elon Musk needs to let all the information out, let us all see it, no more of this curating and holding back.” And Musk does say he plans to release it ALL.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/06/tucker-devine-baker-fbi-twitter-musk/

It should come as no surprise that the guy who came aboard at Twitter to suppress information was still doing just that, suppressing the information his new boss wanted to release. And when Baker left the salt out of the stew, he led the ‘journalists’ at ROLLING STONE, for example --- where actual journalist Taibbi used to work --- to call it a big nothing. Their word for it was “snoozefest.”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/former-employees-react-elon-musk-014619450.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

At the time of this writing, we’re still waiting for that second drop. In the meantime, the most informative article you could read on the subject comes from Julie Kelly, who has a way of finding details that no one else has. Here she goes into the effort made by the Biden campaign and Democrat Party leadership to control media coverage of what was known to be “the worst kept secret in Washington,” namely, Biden family corruption.

https://theohiostar.com/2022/12/07/commentary-obama-biden-government-in-exile-ran-hunter-laptop-suppression-operation/

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  • Carol J Mathews

    12/07/2022 01:54 PM

    It is time McConnell was gone. Trump made a big mistake in helping him stay in office. He is Old, old and beyond school and does not accept the way things are now. He, like McCain, want to see the stuff shirted bypartison candidates that make they little deals with decorum and that is not the world we live in now. I am now saying that I do not wish that is was still that way where respect and protocal was the norm but not now. When one side is out of blood and will use any means necessary to get they objective, we can't sit by and play nice guy. He did not want Herschal Walker in his senate and was willing to see us loose the seat rather than get out there and fight for it. Maybe Walker is not his suit and tie polished candidate but his vote would have kept us from destroying the US. McCain sabotaged Obama Care by his wanting the old ways of back room discussions and deals and then telling the public what they would do. In a perfect world we can play nice and I wish we were there, but we are not and unless we play hardball and clean up the mess we are in, we will never ever see that perfect world or ever come close. The Republicans got to get some hard backbone. Fight smarter and harder than your opponent.