Musk vs. The Deep State

Kudos to Elon Musk for making extraordinary efforts to expose the truth about censorship at Twitter!  Here’s the key to understanding the controversy.

In the summer of 2020, the FBI went to Twitter and warned of possible “hack-and-leak” operations by Russia and other countries to influence the election.  Yoel Roth, a former Twitter executive, told the Federal Election Commission in December 2020 that he was informed these operations would involve Hunter Biden, which was certainly very specific information.

Some left-wing commentators are suggesting that this is exactly what the FBI should do, and Twitter can’t be blamed for acting when information involving Hunter Biden’s laptop appears in the press and seems to be hacked and leaked. 

Don’t fall for this excuse!

It doesn’t pass the straight face test because the FBI had the laptop in its possession since December 2019.  The FBI wasn’t speculating about foreign disinformation campaigns.  The FBI knew the laptop and its contents were real because they had it!

This was not a normal investigative or law enforcement action for the Bureau to take.  It was running political interference for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.

Some commentators have pointed out that this wasn’t the Biden Administration’s FBI doing this because he hadn’t been elected yet.  But it involved the same left-wing elements of the Deep State that interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton.

The FBI allowed itself to become a tool of the Clinton campaign when it pushed the Russia collusion hoax without any evidence.  The same left-wing Deep State hacks who went to bat for Hillary were going to bat for Joe Biden by working with left-wing hacks in Big Tech. 

And they were in fact some of the very same people.  For example, James Baker was a top FBI lawyer involved in approving FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign in 2016.  By 2020, Baker was a top official at Twitter who helped censor the Hunter Biden story!

Just to be clear, leftists in the FBI were coordinating with leftists in Silicon Valley to ensure that conservative voices were suppressed and that conservatives didn’t win elections.  This was not a “mean FBI” threatening a private company.  These were activist hacks in both organizations working together to silence MAGA conservatives. 

By the time the 2022 elections rolled around, the relationship between the Deep State and Big Tech had only grown deeper.  The Biden Administration’s “Disinformation Governance Board” was meeting weekly and government censors had direct access to Big Tech platforms via special portals.  Anything related to COVID coming from the Wuhan lab to satire from the Babylon Bee was shut down. 

We must get to the bottom of this, and I am hopeful that the new House majority will do just that.  We need to know to what extent this was also going on at Google and Facebook.

We already have Mark Zuckerberg’s statement that the FBI pressed Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, and I suspect we will discover far more was done.