Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“The DNC and Biden Team knew they had friends at Twitter who would do their bidding during the election. And Twitter lied to the FEC about that influence…. But that’s just at the surface….” —TechnoFog on Substack
James A. Baker
At what point in his arduous take-over of Twitter did Elon Musk realize that the package came with a joker in the deck: James A. Baker, formerly general counsel of the FBI? Did he wonder: what is this guy doing here? Were there any conversations between the two? Or did Mr. Musk just quietly observe his presence at a remove in nervous wonder, as one might, say, upon discovering a scorpion in the corner of his hotel room?
Mr. Baker, you understand was notoriously at the center of the FBI’s FISA court fuckery that got the ball rolling in the Crossfire Hurricane operation, Act One of RussiaGate, as well as the Alpha Bank caper concocted by Hillary Clinton (disclosed this year by special counsel John Durham), and probably every other sedition pie the FBI cooked in its oven in those years, considering Mr. Baker’s position as chief legal advisor to Director Chris Wray. When the alt-news media caught onto Mr. Baker’s nefarious activities, he became inconvenient to the agency, was re-assigned to some nebulous task (polishing Mr. Wray’s cuff links?), and quit in May, 2018. He landed temporarily — or was he, rather, parked out-of-sight? — at the shadowy R Street Institute, an Intel Community cut-out, one of its countless PR channels in the DC Swamp.
But then, mysteriously, Mr. Baker got hired by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in June of 2020 — the heat of a presidential election — to work under Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s general counsel (and chief of “legal, policy, and trust” [ha!]), where he remained until just the other day. Is it a stretch to imagine Mr. Baker’s former employer, the FBI — which, let’s face it, operates as a sort of blood-brotherhood — purposely installed Mr. Baker in that sensitive job at Twitter to help “moderate” the national conversation in the central forum public debate had moved to in our time?
If so, he apparently did a crackerjack job, and just at the right time, too, after the FBI discovered, in emails they ripped off Rudolf Giuliani’s purloined cloud account, that Donald Trump’s attorney had possession of a copy of the hard-drive from the laptop computer of one Hunter Biden, son of presidential candidate Joe Biden — said computer (the FBI knew full-well by then) being stuffed not just with pornographic photos of crack orgies and other personal infelicities, but also a trove of emails and deal memos laying out a bribery and money-laundering scheme that the younger Biden was running all over Eurasia as a family business.
Of course, the FBI had that selfsame computer in its possession for the better part of a year when The New York Post broke the news of its existence days before the election of 2020. In fact, the Bureau had had possession at the very time that Mr. Trump was busy getting impeached for daring to suggest to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, that the Bidens were involved in some shady business worth investigating with the Kiev-based Burisma gas company. Evidence of that and much much more — including way-bigger shady deals with CCP cut-outs — lay moldering in the laptop the FBI just silently sat on. Isn’t it a little strange that during the impeachment ordeal neither Attorney General William Barr or FBI chief Chris Wray volunteered to Mr. Trump’s legal defense that they held exculpatory evidence on that laptop for the very thing he was impeached on?
That was January, 2020, many months before The New York Post took the laptop’s existence public. And whaddaya know… by June of that year, James A. Baker was in place at Twitter, ready to serve! As election day approached, he apparently succeeded in stifling transmission of the Post’s laptop story plus any-and-all conversation about it in the Twitterverse, and was careful not to leave a memo trail of his heroic interventions. Do you suppose he might have had some conversations about all that with his old colleagues at the FBI? At the same time, you understand, the FBI was leaning successfully on that other social network giant, Facebook, to likewise smother the laptop story. And Google, too, having become an Intel Community tool, was avid to tailor its search algorithms to steer the curious away from Hunter’s laptop. And so was fortune’s fool Joe Biden inserted into history….
Amazingly, after all that huggermugger, James A. Baker remained in place last week at Twitter — even as his putative boss, censor-in-chief Vijaya Gadde got drop-kicked out the door — just as Elon Musk prepared to release a trove of information detailing Twitter’s censorship activities of recent years. Yes! And, evidently, Mr. Baker functioned as a sort of one-man clearing house for all the documents getting shoveled to independent reporter Matt Taibbi, whom Mr. Musk had designated to be the news conduit for these awaited revelations. And, yes, there is every reason to suspect that Mr. Baker censored, or perhaps even tried to destroy, the very documents that Mr. Musk ordered released.
Was that not like leaving a wolverine in Twitter’s henhouse? How could Mr. Musk not know how absurd it was for Mr. Baker to moderate that release? Well, the chatter is that Mr. Musk was seeking a way to encourage Mr. Baker to inculpate himself, so as to foreclose any lawsuits he might think to bring against Twitter for wrongful termination. I have to say, Mr. Musk would be an idiot if he did not have copies of the server that James Baker had access to and had the opportunity to delete stuff from. I guess we’ll find out.
But there is one other matter that has been left out of all the sound and fury about the Twitter doc release: the meta story of the US government’s rogue agencies’ greater war against the public interest. Not just the Intel Community but all the public health agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services: the FDA, CDC, NIAID, NIH, and more.
Consider that James A. Baker — formerly the FBI’s consiglieri — was in that job at Twitter most of the time that Covid-19 was raging across the land. How much did he have to say about censoring the life-and-death information surrounding the pandemic? Did he stifle debate about the early treatment medications — ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, Vitamin D, etc. — that could have saved many thousands of lives otherwise sacrificed to the medical establishment’s Moloch of intubation-and-remdesivir?
Did he advise the blackballing, silencing, and cancellation of doctors who opposed Dr. Fauci’s regime of lockdowns, masks, and “vaccines”? Did he prevent the public from learning how ineffective and harmful the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA shots are? Did he help promote every government-sponsored untruth about Covid-19, meaning just about everything public officials have uttered about it for three years? Did he, in sum, in his machinations at Twitter, so pervert the national conversation through an epic crisis that he has contributed to the collapsing US economy and a genocide-like campaign against the people of this country. I think he probably did. That’s how serious this matter is.
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Baker is a tool…another soldier in the war against the American people. If the sheep don’t wake up soon they will find they’re broke and sleeping on the street begging for a bed and free meal at the FEMA camp. The Canadians have a solution…
We should all be proud to be that sheep warning the others (whether it helped or not) “I’m telling you, the man and the dog are working together!”
And all these revelations will result in the usual …..nothing.
He has a very punchable face.
“I think he probably did.”
Say what? The all-powerful JamesBaker.FBI probably managed to ’pervert the national conversation”?
WHAT national conversation? JK has it backwards.
It’s a rare thing, these days, for a family to discuss anything at dinner without our ‘national perversions’ polarizing the conversation. On a national level, we’re the Tower of Babel. Nobody speaks the same language because the definitions of words long held in common have been perverted to mean anything and everything.
Freud discovered long ago that women cannot be understood, much less defined, but it took a Supreme Court nominee to inform us that seriously scientific biologists can, by perverting the conversation, define a man as a woman. THAT is the national conversation.
I like Kunstler’s writing, but his thinking just goes ‘round and ‘round.
He thinks that some day, somebody’s gonna pay for all the blatant, in-your-face fuckery by our federal government. That, some day, the revolving doors between the oversight agencies and those they oversee will be welded shut by our pissed-off public. That’s his internal dialogue. It’s never become a national conversation, much less an accurate prediction. It’s not even a ‘probably’.
Our corrupt, insane government isn’t going to police itself because lobbyists have plenty of $$$ to keep FJB licking ice cream and everybody else trying to keep the IRS from torching their tail feathers.
When the enforcement of justice is billions in fines for fraudulent banking practices – paid for by shareholders (but no banker goes to jail), when lying to congress or the FBI is only prosecuted against those not in the politically protected party, when there’s plenty of evidence screaming for a hanging and nobody builds a scaffold, the national conversation has been muted into silence.
When facts no longer matter, the national conversation is over.
Well said. Kunstler is entertaining and informative, but doesn’t seem to understand the nature of empire in decline – justice is lost for good, and there is no accountability or retribution, just the continuing inevitable slide into chaos and the dustbin of history.
Last sentence tells it ALL.
Sheesh! What imbecile appointed these clowns?
Ann Coulter’s buddy.
If I was Baker, I would take out a full page add in the NYT announcing “I AM NOT SUICIDAL!”
We are all that guy in the meme saying “I have to find new conspiracy theories. All my old ones have come true.”
That’s how serious this matter is and nothing is going to happen NOTHING !
When I see people being ushered out of the Capitol in orange jumpsuits and shackles escorted to a military tribunal and a gallows awaiting these wretched individuals necks especially members of the January 6 committee then maybe I can have some faith and loyalty to what was my country !
Now it’s just a playground for the CCP operations and treasonous benefactors with CHICOM CASH flooding everywhere in the political parasite arenas!
ITS NUREMBERG TIME !
Jefferson thought there should be a revolution every twenty years.
Jefferson wasn’t briefed (?) on the NeoNose plan to have his successors to hold beanie-bonnets’ Zionist beer while starting revolutions for them in seven countries in five years.
Today, Jefferson would be potting substation transformers.
May be what is going on. I saw a news blurb today about numerous cases of electrical transmission infrastructure being shot up over the past weeks or months. Not a good development.
JHK is one heck of a journalist and a great wordsmith but funny how none of these key players in corruption ever gets put away for life let alone indicted. The Repugnicants are either just too retarded to be able to figure out how this game is played (“release the Kraken” ho ho ho) or they are in on it. (The treatment of the likes of Roger Stone and Rudy Giuliani lead Auntie to believe the Rs are simply just that stupid.)
This Baker chap knows where ALL the bodies are buried at the Eff Bee Eye and Shitter. He will retire to a Georgetown* colonial with a sweet condo in St Croix for chillier months and a pied-a-terre in Tel Abib for when summoned to briefings.
*Stand-in reference point for any wealthy and connected utterly corrupt fancy neighborhood filled with apparachiks e.g, Matha’s Vinyid, Manhattan, Sunnyvale, etc.
that smiling traitorous trash stole an election. what should be the response to the gloating traitor?
Musk knew Baker was involved. He knew he would censor anything which implicated the intelligence services or FBI. Now Musk claims that the genuinely interesting stuff has been “deleted”. No doubt Musk would have been destroyed if the truth was revealed and he had no choice, but he is still being dishonest.
All information points to an ongoing coup lead by intelligence services and their global masters against us. Presidents go along. Baker was put there in 2020 to manage an important intelligence asset. They castrated or bought the chiefs of the big three, Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Getting rid of Trump was one piece of their operation.
Trump needs to go scorched earth on all of this now.