Elon Musk’s newest “Twitter Recordsdata” drop has left extra liberal journalists fuming, after the brand new Twitter proprietor unexpectedly fired former FBI Basic Counsel James Baker from the corporate in developments revealed Tuesday.
Substack journalist Matt Taibbi introduced that the drop of inside paperwork was delayed resulting from discovering that Baker had been “vetting” the paperwork beforehand, with out Musk’s data.
The previous FBI official expressed help for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop computer story within the first set of Twitter Recordsdata Taibbi launched final week. Whereas on the bureau, Baker labored underneath former Director James Comey and performed a key position within the Russia collusion investigation involving Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign.
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Musk wrote on Twitter, “In mild of considerations about Baker’s attainable position in suppression of data essential to the general public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter right now.”
The information prompted quite a lot of reactions on-line. Conservative pundits cheered Musk for “cleansing home” whereas Republicans known as for Baker to testify earlier than Congress.
However some liberal media figures noticed nothing unsuitable with Baker’s involvement in trying over the paperwork that detailed how the corporate selected to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop computer story in October of 2020.
Mom Jones reporter Dan Friedman steered Baker was “only a man with a troublesome job” who was unfairly maligned.
“Jim Baker was concerned in numerous controversies as a result of he was the FBI’s basic counsel. Is he “one thing of a Zelig” or only a man with a troublesome job? Baker has been the topic of mch innuedo like this, however not been discovered to have leaked something.”
Former Twitter Deputy Basic Counsel and former FBI basic counsel Jim Baker
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ELON MUSK FIRES TWITTER LAWYER JIM BAKER, WHO WAS INVOLVED IN CENSORING HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP AND RUSSIA PROBE
Former New Yorker journalist James Surowiecki mocked the concept he should not have been concerned.
“A prime lawyer at Twitter vetted the general public launch of recordsdata that contained materials that may expose the corporate to authorized legal responsibility, together with with regard to privateness points. That is actually scandalous,” he tweeted.
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NBC Information reporter Ben Collins additionally took the main target off Baker, writing, “The scandal right here is that Elon Musk found who his firm’s deputy basic counsel was six weeks after he bought it.”
New Republic reporter Matt Ford knocked the story as a non-scandal.
“Twitter’s basic counsel had the unmitigated gall to evaluate inside paperwork earlier than they have been publicly launched,” he tweeted.
Protection lawyer and Substack creator Ken White additionally downplayed the information, writing in a Twitter thread, “Wow this Jim Baker narrative from Musk & Taibbi is determined and dumb.”
In follow-up tweets he slammed Musk’s “fool viewers” and mocked the most recent information as “notably dumb.”
“However right now’s new mini-update to the ‘scandal’ is especially dumb. Oh, in-house basic counsel regarded via supplies a few controversy earlier than they have been despatched to the press? SHOCKING,” he wrote.
Liberal information shops who denounced the Hunter Biden laptop computer as Russian disinformation earlier than the 2020 election have paid little consideration to the most recent bombshell Twitter developments.
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