1) One note of caution. I will draw attention to a very similar framework now rolling out with the Twitter File releases that we saw in the John Durham investigation.
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1601365295763193856
2) Notice how both Bari Weiss and Matt Taibbi are drawing attention to the Twitter executives, but NOT drawing any attention to the government officials. This does not appear to be coincidental.
3) Bari Weiss could have easily identified the head of the Twitter head of the “Strategic Response Team” an intelligence official named Jeff Carlton. She didn’t. 
4) Similarly, Matt Taibbi could have identified the official from the DNI office in contact with Twitter executive Yoel Roth, ODNI official Shelby Pierson. He didn’t.
5) Just as John Durham structured his public investigative releases to cast the unlawful shadow on only those people outside government, so too is Weiss and Taibbi structuring their public reviews of the Twitter files to draw attention only to the Twitter executives outside govt.
6) The officials from the U.S. government, who are transmitting through the DHS portal to Twitter, are not being named and identified, why not?
7) From Taibbi and Weiss and Taibbi again, we are getting an outline of actions taken by Twitter officials, but we are still blind to *how* the information, requests and demands come into Twitter from the U.S. government, and who specifically is sending them.
8) I hope I'm wrong, but currently to expand the metaphor, Musk is playing the role of Bill Barr and carefully selected journalists are playing the role of John Durham.
Musk is the Bondo applier.
Taibbi et al are the spray paint.
Musk is the Bondo applier.
Taibbi et al are the spray paint.
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