Elon Musk's latest "Twitter Files" drop has left more liberal journalists fuming, after the new Twitter owner unexpectedly fired former FBI General Counsel James Baker from the company in developments revealed Tuesday.

Substack journalist Matt Taibbi announced that the drop of internal documents was delayed due to discovering that Baker had been "vetting" the documents beforehand, without Musk's knowledge. 

The former FBI official expressed support for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story in the first set of Twitter Files Taibbi released last week. While at the bureau, Baker worked under former Director James Comey and played a key role in the Russia collusion investigation involving Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. 

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Musk wrote on Twitter, "In light of concerns about Baker’s possible role in suppression of information important to the public dialogue, he was exited from Twitter today."

The news prompted a variety of reactions online. Conservative pundits cheered Musk for "cleaning house" while Republicans called for Baker to testify before Congress. 

But some liberal media figures saw nothing wrong with Baker's involvement in looking over the documents that detailed how the company chose to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story in October of 2020.

Mother Jones reporter Dan Friedman suggested Baker was "just a guy with a tough job" who was unfairly maligned.

"Jim Baker was involved in various controversies because he was the FBI's general counsel. Is he "something of a Zelig" or just a guy with a tough job? Baker has been the subject of mch innuedo like this, but not been found to have leaked anything."

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Former New Yorker journalist James Surowiecki mocked the idea he shouldn't have been involved. 

"A top lawyer at Twitter vetted the public release of files that contained material that might expose the company to legal liability, including with regard to privacy issues. That's really scandalous," he tweeted.

NBC News reporter Ben Collins also took the focus off Baker, writing, "The scandal here is that Elon Musk discovered who his company's deputy general counsel was six weeks after he purchased it."

New Republic reporter Matt Ford knocked the story as a non-scandal.

"Twitter’s general counsel had the unmitigated gall to review internal documents before they were publicly released," he tweeted.

Defense attorney and Substack author Ken White also downplayed the news, writing in a Twitter thread, "Wow this Jim Baker narrative from Musk & Taibbi is desperate and dumb."

In follow-up tweets he slammed Musk's "idiot audience" and mocked the latest news as "particularly dumb."

"But today’s new mini-update to the ‘scandal’ is particularly dumb. Oh, in-house general counsel looked through materials about a controversy before they were sent to the press? SHOCKING," he wrote.

Liberal news outlets who denounced the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation before the 2020 election have paid little attention to the latest bombshell Twitter developments.

John Lennon, songwriting genius and founding member of The Beatles — a man who gifted the world with beautiful music that still rouses the human spirit long after his death — was murdered in New York City on this day in history, Dec. 8, 1980. 

He was 40 years old. 

"An unspeakable tragedy," legendary sports host Howard Cosell blurted in shock to the nation near midnight, interrupting the dramatic final seconds of a Monday Night Football broadcast. 

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"John Lennon, outside of his apartment building on the West Side of New York, the most famous perhaps of all the Beatles, shot twice in the back. Rushed to Roosevelt Hospital. Dead on arrival."

Cosell's dramatic words spoken on national television, decades before the internet spread news instantly, were the first that many Americans heard of the celebrated musician’s death. The world learned soon after initial reports that Lennon was actually shot four times.

Lennon ignited pop-culture mania with The Beatles in the 1960s. 

He went on to a hugely successful career as solo artist and peace activist in the 1970s. 

He was murdered outside his residence, The Dakota, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side at 10:50 p.m. and pronounced dead at the hospital 25 minutes later. 

Gunman Mark David Chapman, a deranged fan who received an autograph from the musician hours earlier, pleaded guilty to Lennon’s murder in 1981.

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An estimated 100,000 Beatles fans flooded The Dakota and Central Park in the hours after the tragedy for a tear-filled vigil that shut down auto traffic across several blocks of Manhattan. 

The John Lennon vigil has never ended.

The Dakota’s gracious vaulted entrance, the spot where Lennon was killed, is a daily global pilgrimage site today. 

So, too, is a corner of Central Park across the street from the residence, dubbed Strawberry Fields in Lennon’s honor after a popular Beatles tune. 

Both sites elicit emotion and reflection for visitors from all over the world, many of them born long after Lennon was killed.

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"His music made people happy," Ethan Doyle, 12, of Philadelphia, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday outside the stately residence, accompanied by his mother, Monique, and brother Brodie, 9. 

"This place radiates importance."

Strawberry Fields is highlighted by a black-and-white tile mosaic on a Central Park pathway with the word "Imagine," a reference to one of Lennon's best-known solo tunes. 

The sounds of Lennon and the other Beatles — Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — as well as the quiet murmur of a parade of fans fill Strawberry Fields throughout the day, every day. 

It's a testament to the power of Lennon's music that it still attracts and resonates with the souls of strangers 42 years after the artist last walked the earth.

"I play here four to five times a week and you see people silently crying to themselves," New York City musician Jules Avalon told Fox News Digital on Wednesday, between beautiful acoustic versions of Beatles' hits "All My Loving," "Blackbird" and "Strawberry Fields Forever."

The 72nd Street subway station, directly beneath The Dakota, boasts sky-blue tiles in Lennon’s honor, also with the word "Imagine" in cloud white on one of the walls.

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Lennon, a native of Liverpool, England, placed no. 8 on a 2002 BBC reader poll list of the 100 Greatest Britons of all time, between Queen Elizabeth I, who ruled England for 45 years in the 16th century, and Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, the naval hero who saved the island nation at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. 

He and the Beatles burst onto the British music scene in 1963 and became a global sensation the following year. 

The Beatles made their dramatic American debut in 1964, just 16 years before Lennon’s murder, at what's now the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway. 

It's located a mere 18 blocks south of The Dakota. 

The Beatles broke up in 1970, after writing, recording and releasing scores of hit songs in less than a decade that are still recognized pop-culture standards today. 

It was a profound period of artistic production in a dramatically short period of time — and rarely if ever matched in music history.

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In 2022, thanks to the magic of modern technology, Lennon performed with his former songwriting partner Paul McCartney.

McCartney, in his tour of America this year, sang a duet with Lennon featuring vocals from his late bandmate isolated from The Beatles' famous 1969 rooftop performance in London. 

One incredible testament to the ongoing appeal of The Beatles comes from Billboard. 

"Abbey Road," a classic album released by The Beatles in 1969, was the 12th best-selling album of the year — here in 2022. 

"Like most of us he was often selfish and unpleasant," influential British entertainment magazine New Musical Express wrote in its obituary of Lennon in December 1980. 

"But he was never miserly with himself or his soul … He gave. He shared. And now [that] he’s gone we, too, seem diminished."