Someone made the decision to route the data through Baker rather than just handing it over to Taibbi and Weiss, and then made another decision to keep it quiet from everyone including Elon in the hopes that no one would notice.
Baker's incompetence just burned someone else, too.
How about so he could drag him into the light and burn him in the public square?
Or find out who the sleeper agent was.
Someone made the decision to route the data through Baker rather than just handing it over to Taibbi and Weiss, and then made another decision to keep it quiet from everyone including Elon in the hopes that no one would notice.
Baker's incompetence just burned someone else, too.