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Elon Musk Fires Deputy General Counsel For Suppressing Information Important To Public
Slay ^ | 6/12/22 | David Hawkins

Posted on 12/06/2022 1:47:28 PM PST by Eleutheria5

“In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today”

Elon Musk fired deputy general counsel Jim Baker over his involvement in suppressing information important to the public. Baker was a key player in Twitter’s effort to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Musk said: “In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today

Jonathan Turley wrote about Baker: “Baker has been featured repeatedly in the Russian investigations launched by the Justice Department, including the hoax involving the Russian Alfa Bank. When Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann wanted to plant the bizarre false claim of a secret communications channel between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, Baker was his go-to, speed-dial contact. (Baker would later testify at Sussmann’s trial). Baker’s name also appeared prominently in controversies related to the other Russian-related FBI allegations against Trump.

“After leaving the FBI, Twitter seemed eager to hire Baker as deputy general counsel. Ironically, Baker soon became involved in another alleged back channel with a presidential campaign.

“This time it was Twitter that maintained the non-public channels with the Biden campaign (and later the White House). Baker soon weighed in with the same signature bias that characterized the Russian investigations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baker; elonmusk; jimbaker; musk; suppression; yourefired
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To: FlyingEagle

Is ELON our JOHN GALT????


61 posted on 12/06/2022 5:23:41 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Eleutheria5

At the closing months of Obozo administration’s second term which I’m convinced now he never won, leftists set in motion the burrowing of scores of leftist shrubs into every executive agency.

The swamp is deep and murky.


62 posted on 12/06/2022 5:44:35 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: ModelBreaker

It will be interest to see where Baker turns up next..


63 posted on 12/07/2022 1:17:27 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: Eleutheria5

64 posted on 12/07/2022 8:34:04 AM PST by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: Eleutheria5

Bump


65 posted on 12/07/2022 8:28:42 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lewislynn

Drop the Trump worship, he was far from perfect. He made a boatload of crap hires.


66 posted on 12/09/2022 11:39:12 AM PST by newbie 10-21-00
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