Commentary
The latest of the Twitter Files is reported by Alex Berenson, who was granted access to messaging systems from the times before Elon Musk took over. His first round of reporting concerns the role of Scott Gottlieb, who is a perfect example of an influencer who is technically outside of government but might as well be a powerful official within it.
Gottlieb’s main gig now is as a senior fellow of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, D.C., but he also serves as a board member of Pfizer. Before joining AEI and Pfizer, he headed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under Trump from 2017 to 2019. Before that, he was at Health and Human Services (HHS) as a member of its Federal Health IT Policy Committee from 2013 to 2017….