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Elon Musk fires Twitter deputy general counsel Jim Baker amid Hunter Biden laptop fallout
FOX Business ^ | December 6, 2022 | By Paul Best

Posted on 12/06/2022 2:40:19 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Elon Musk said that Twitter's former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker was "exited" from the company on Tuesday after revelations about his role in the platform's handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Baker was involved in discussions about whether the laptop falls under Twitter's "hacked materials" policy.

"I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," Baker wrote in one email chain. "At this stage, however, it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."

Baker was responding to a Twitter executive who was wondering whether they could "truthfully claim" that the laptop story was "part of the policy."

Before joining Twitter, Baker worked as general counsel at the FBI, where he was involved in the bureau's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Taibbi said Tuesday that he and another journalist, Bari Weiss, were dealing "with obstacles to new searches" when Weiss discovered that Baker was responsible for releasing the files over the weekend.

"The news that Baker was reviewing the 'Twitter files' surprised everyone involved, to say the least," Taibbi tweeted.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxbusiness.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020; bidencorruption; bidenlaptop; coverup; deepstateoperative; doj; elon; fbi; hunter; jimbaker; musk; twitter
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Has anyone suggested that Baker may have tweaked the contents of The “ Twitter Files” before he was canned?

He had time.


81 posted on 12/06/2022 4:41:52 PM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: Travis McGee
It looks like his Wikipedia page has been scrubbed by experts. It's all very blurry about why he left the FBI.

Except it isn't. He was caught leaking and allowed to resign instead of facing disciplinary action. Which, it's a bad look for the General Counsel for the FBI to be "under heavy manners".

He "resigned" on the same day as Lisa Page - another person who was going to be put through the ringer if she stayed, and probably eventually fired like her boyfriend and co-conspirator Peter Strzok was, but instead, they resigned.

Having worked at a high level in Corportate America I can tell you that such "near firings" are pretty common, and one of the things that is routine is to present or leak it in such a way that the smell of the manure sticks to the person "resigning".

For intance: A big restatement of earnings due to fraudulent accounting are announced in the same press release as the CEO "resigning". Everyone knows what that means.

So when Baker was lumped together with the most visible nut-and-slut of Russiagate, Lisa Page, that wasn't a "coincidence", that was a permanent marker being applied by someone skilled in the FBI. (Maybe even a hidden patriot, sick of the place but waiting to retire or something.)

Here it is:

CNN: FBI officials Lisa Page and James Baker resign

CNN: Peter Strzok Fired by the FBI

Here is the offical co-conspirator's journal, the N.Y.Times trying to spin and soften this for their quisling buddies:

2 F.B.I. Officials, Once Key Advisers to Comey, Leave the Bureau

As usual you have to go the right-wing alternative press to get any clear accounting of all this. Here's one that lays it out straight:

Embattled FBI Officials Lisa Page & James Baker Resign Amid Treasonous Revelations In Collusion Investigation

82 posted on 12/06/2022 4:54:47 PM PST by Vlad0 (Other people supporting Ukraine: Biden, Soros, Nuland, Kristol, Pelosi. Think about it! )
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To: Flick Lives
Baker was there long enough, with access to Twitter records. You can bet he’s destroyed critical info.

It's very hard to destroy information from systems that are managed by other systems (corporate eamail system provided by Bluehost, Ionos, Web.com for instance) that are designed to have the ability to restore lost data, and are not designed to have a "purge" function.

83 posted on 12/06/2022 4:58:04 PM PST by Vlad0 (Other people supporting Ukraine: Biden, Soros, Nuland, Kristol, Pelosi. Think about it! )
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To: FreeReign

Musk didn’t know that Baker was still there until Laura pointed it out?


Baker was on vacation what with all the hard work on the last stolen election.


84 posted on 12/06/2022 5:17:01 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Baruch Ha Ba Ba Shem Adonai!)
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To: Vlad0

“Baker was there long enough, with access to Twitter records. You can bet he’s destroyed critical info.”

If I were a betting Rebel.... I believe the powers that be probably had him under close watch to see what he might be getting rid of. they knew full well he was there.


85 posted on 12/06/2022 5:18:07 PM PST by rebelskid
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To: G Larry

How about Fauci’s daughter? Is she still at Twitter?


86 posted on 12/06/2022 5:22:57 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: All

Bookmark


87 posted on 12/06/2022 5:29:43 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: Travis McGee

I need at least that, and housing values going down in the DC area, indicating we’ve seriously taken a lot of money out of the FedGov annual budgets.


88 posted on 12/06/2022 5:39:08 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

This is the Pentagon Papers of our time!!


89 posted on 12/06/2022 5:59:44 PM PST by Braak (2022 - Vote like your country depended on it...it does.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Wonder how many other will be found out and fired

Musk is sure cleaning house....

showing us how this should be done in Congress!


90 posted on 12/06/2022 6:33:56 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: chief lee runamok
need permanent incarceration. Neckties.
91 posted on 12/06/2022 7:41:03 PM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !7)
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To: Maris Crane

I stopped watching Varney for six months after the 2020 election. Then I came back. Then Varney started harping against investigating fraudulent elections and then Trump to the point of ad nausium. Very disappointing to say the least. I can’t even stand watching Kudlow now. Folks, the Calvary is not coming.


92 posted on 12/06/2022 8:48:52 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell..)
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To: Chgogal

Kudlow too now?

Very disappointing.

Well, Fox should be Ecstatic, they have a bunch of little Neil Cavutos, whom I despise!


93 posted on 12/06/2022 9:04:24 PM PST by Maris Crane ( )
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To: isthisnickcool
What has always been puzzling to me is why didn’t the Democrats clean house in 2020? They had millions of fake ballots with just Biden’s name on them where the “voter” didn’t vote down the ballot. Why didn’t they make up bogus votes down the ballot?

Good question.

If the Democrat Party Cabal (DPC) tried to steal every individual race at every level across the nation, it would be too obvious: Say like 90% of Democrat politicians won their 2020 political races, and only 10% of Republicans won. Instead, the DPC focused on winning the White House, Senate, and House in 2020.

The DPC (which includes all RINOs) did whatever it took to block and prevent President Trump from a second term. Recently, the Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that Twitter, before he acquired it, "obviously" had "interfered in elections." Musk released Twitter's internal documents showing that the Sleepy Joe Presidential Campaign ordered Twitter to censor any tweets reflecting poorly on Sleepy Joe's candidacy (and Twitter eagerly complied by censoring all those tweets). Stolen Election.

Even today, the DPC is still obsessed with stopping President Trump from a second term in 2024. That's why you see endless government investigations of President Trump, endless lawsuits against President Trump and his Trump Organization, endless class actions against President Trump's companies, endless yelling that Trump-voting Republicans are an extremely dangerous "threat to American democracy," etc. The President Trump-hating Democrat Party Cabal will never stop ... as long as the possibility exists that President Trump or any of his children are considered serious candidates for the Presidency.

The career Republican political consultant, RINO Rick Wilson, was a political consultant for RINO George Bush, and in 2019 he co-founded the "Lincoln Project" (a cabal of fellow RINOs) whose sole mission and obsession was to destroy the hugely successful & hugely popular President Trump's political career, regardless of the will of American voters. For years, RINO Rick Wilson has been and is still going on the extreme-left CNN & extreme-left MSNBC (and other extreme-left Democrat-controlled MSM political "news" shows) relentlessly bashing President Trump, calling him every ugly and nasty name you can possibly imagine that can still make it on-air without bleeping.

On one particular MSNBC political "news" segment (just a day before the 2020 so-called "Election Day"), the far-left MSNBC political "news" host, Nicolle Wallace, excitedly said to RINO political consultant Rick Wilson: "... Your unyielding, unrelenting ass-kicking of Donald Trump and his children and everything about his presidency that was so screwed up" (as Wallace, RINO Rick Wilson, and two other far-left guests all chuckled and smirked), "what is [your] closing kick in the teeth [against President Trump] from your Lincoln Project?" Here's how the career RINO consultant Rick Wilson responded to her question: "We're seeing that Democrat voters are coming out on election day, even after already having kicked his ass in early voting ... [President Trump] blew up the economy, he's a narcicist lunatic, [voters] are done! ... they are determined to push this man out of office ... it might be a cataclysm for the GOP."

Nope, extreme-left RINO Rick Wilson, it wasn't American voters that were "determined to push [the hugely successful & hugely popular President Trump] out of office," it was extreme-left RINOs (such as Rick Wilson) and extreme-left Democrats, forming the Democrat Party Cabal who were not merely "determined," they were and are extremely obsessed with destroying the Trump name and President Trump's political career. And they'll go so far as to steal Presidential elections to do it. When you steal the U.S. Presidential election, you can literally steal any election you want. Amirite, Democrat Party Cabal? Amirite, RINO Rick Wilson?

There's no difference between RINOs & Democrats. Here's the RINO career political consultant Rick Wilson yukking it up with Don Lemon on his CNN political "news" show:


94 posted on 12/08/2022 9:09:39 AM PST by gw-ington (My Preferred Pronouns: senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
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To: gw-ington
I hope everyone notices how the Democrat Party Cabal (including RINOs) continues relentlessly yelling that all Trump-voting Republicans are an "extremely dangerous" "threat to American democracy." So if you voted for the hugely successful & hugely popular President Trump in 2016 and/or 2020, then the Democrat Party Cabal (including RINOs) considers you a "threat to American democracy." Go figure. Little 'ol you - a "threat to American democracy."

That never-ending demonstrably false claim by the DPC proves my long-held viewpoint yet again: Democrats/RINOs perpetrate extremely bad things against the U.S. (e.g., 2020 Stolen Election), and then falsely blame Republicans for doing what the Democrats/RINOs themselves have already perpetrated against the United States. (Democrat/RINO hypocrites.)

Maybe I'm wrong but stealing the U.S. Presidential election sure sounds like a "threat to American democracy."

95 posted on 12/08/2022 9:23:38 AM PST by gw-ington (My Preferred Pronouns: senile, sleepy, puppet, laughing, hyena, stolen, election.)
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