The FBI set up a classified briefing for Twitter lawyer James Baker weeks before news reports emerged about incriminating information found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop computer, according to internal Twitter documents.
Mr. Baker, a former FBI lawyer chosen for the top-secret briefings, would later push Twitter to block the reports that threatened then-candidate Joseph R. Biden’s presidential run in October 2020.
Internal emails released on Monday by independent journalist Michael Shellenberger in the latest installment of Elon Musk’s Twitter Files, revealed the depth of ties between federal officials and social media platforms. It included this scheme to grant Twitter executives access to classified information as the FBI sought to discredit the laptop computer that had been in the bureau’s possession for 10 months before the New York Post broke the story about it in October 2020.