#TwitterFiles: Elon Musk fires chief legal officer. Without his agreement, he controlled the files given to journalists. The latter recall that he had played a key role in the false allegations of the FBI on Donald Trump

[Note de FDS : Jim Baker et James Baker sont la même personne. Jim est un surnom pour James]

Elon Musk has fired Twitter’s chief legal officer, James A. Baker, citing his alleged involvement in suppressing the publication of internal documents regarding Twitter’s censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.

In light of concerns over Baker’s possible role in suppressing information important to public dialogue, he was removed from Twitter today,” Musk wrote in a tweet on Tuesday.

Elon Musk added that Baker’s explanation of the events surrounding the laptop saga [de Hunter Biden] were “unconvincing”.

Journalist Matt Taibbi, who published the first batch of internal files on the Hunter saga on Friday, claimed Baker was fired in part for “controlling the first batch of ‘Twitter files’ – without the knowledge of the new management”.

Also on Tuesday, Congressman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, sent Baker a letter asking him to appear before the House Oversight Committee next year when the GOP takes control of the House.

Prior to joining Twitter, Mr. Baker was the former FBI General Counsel under James Comey, and played a key role in the saga surrounding the Bureau’s controversial investigation into possible collusion between Russia and the campaign. Donald Trump in 2016.

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In a new Twitter thread on Tuesday, Taibbi claimed that Baker was fired after it was discovered he “screened” internal documents before they were given away, delaying the release of the second set of files to Matt Taibbi and another reporter, Bari Weiss.

Taibbi wrote that the “new management,” i.e., Musk, was unaware of Baker’s role in reviewing the filings before they were released.

Taibbi tweeted: ‘The process of producing the “Twitter Files” involved delivery to two journalists (Bari Weiss and me) via a lawyer close to the new management. However, after the initial batch, things got complicated.

‘Over the weekend, as we both dealt with barriers to new research, it was @bariweiss who discovered that the person in charge of distributing the files was a certain Jim. When she called to ask for ‘Jim’s last name, the answer came back: ‘Jim Baker’.

“My jaw hit the ground,” Bari Weiss said.

Taibbi continues: “Baker is a controversial character. He has been in a way the Zelig of the controversies launched by the FBI since 2016, from the Steele file [ingérence russe supposée au profit de Donald Trump dans l’élection présidentielle de 2016] to the Alfa-Server brothel [lien supposé de Donald Trump avec une institution financière russe]. He resigned in 2018 after an investigation into press leaks.

‘The news that Baker was reviewing “Twitter records” surprised everyone involved, to say the least.

‘Twitter’s new chief Elon Musk moved quickly to ‘unload’ Baker on Tuesday.’

DailyMail

Baker, Musk, and the trial of the Democratic lawyer accused of lying to the FBI

James Baker has long been in the crosshairs of Elon Musk, who became his boss on October 27.

Baker played a key role in a series of events that led to the arraignment of Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann in May, accused of lying to the FBI.

He was not accused of giving false information to the FBI, but rather of lying about the person he worked for.

The saga began when Sussmann received information from a group of data scientists who analyzed bizarre internet data that they believed could suggest clandestine communications between a Trump Organization server and an Alfa Bank server. , a Russian financial institution linked to the Kremlin.

Mr. Sussmann then texted Mr. Baker, then the Bureau’s general counsel, to tell him he had information the FBI needed to know.

I come on my own — not on behalf of a client or company — I want to help the Bureau,” Sussmann wrote in his message to Baker.

Baker said he was sure Sussmann was acting as an individual and probably wouldn’t have met him if he had worked for the Clinton campaign.

Sussmann, a cybersecurity specialist, had worked for the Democratic Party in the context of Russia’s hacking of its servers, and Russia’s release of emails from those servers.

Sussmann was also linked to Democrats through one of his partners at the Perkins Coie law firm, Marc Elias, who represented the Clinton campaign and hired Fusion GPS.

Yet numerous people – including Elias – testified that Sussmann was indeed acting on his own, and argued that going to the FBI was not in the interest of the Clinton campaign, which would have preferred that he New York Times article draws attention to these claims.

The FBI later decided that the allegations of ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian bank were unfounded.

Musk had tweeted during the trial that he believed Sussmann had “created an elaborate hoax” about Russia, in an effort to help Clinton.

On May 16, staunchly pro-Trump Congressman Jim Jordan tweeted: “Christopher Steele created the dossier.

Glenn Simpson sold it to the press.

Michael Sussman took it to the FBI.

And the Democrats and the media lied to you about all of this.”

Musk then responded in agreement.

“It’s all true,” he tweeted on May 20.

I bet most people still don’t know that a Clinton campaign lawyer, using campaign funds, created an elaborate hoax about Trump and Russia.

There is reason to wonder all that is false in addition to that”.

On May 31, the jury found that Sussmann had not lied to the FBI and cleared him.

DailyMail

Matt Taibi’s series of tweets on the Baker episode: