Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a rising star in the Democratic Party. A mere year ago, few could have picked him out of a police lineup. Now he’s the presumptive front-runner of the centrist faction of the party and – for the moment, at least – the most likely person for “Stop Bernie” forces to coalesce around.
But few know much about him, if anything. His personal biography seems to revolve around two data points. First, that he’s a gay Christian. Second, that he’s a former Navy intelligence officer.
The latter of the two has not had any significant scrutiny. When “Mayor Pete’s” military record is subjected to even the slightest bit of observation, however, some disturbing facts and damning questions begin to leap out. The question at the bottom continues to be: Who is Pete Buttigieg?
Pete Buttigieg: Corporate Consultant
Mayor Pete likes to talk a lot about his deployment to Afghanistan (more on that later), but he also spent some time in Iraq when he was working for McKinsey and Company as an energy, retail, economic development, and logistics consultant. He makes a passing reference to having been in a “safe house in Iraq” in 2007, in his memoir Shortest Way Home. Indeed, Buttigieg spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan while he was working with McKinsey and Company. This time period (2007-2010) also overlaps with his time as a Naval intelligence officer (2009-2017).
McKinsey isn’t just any global management consulting firm. They have a contract with the Department of Defense as part of a broader Task Force on Business and Stability Operations. This project was criticized by Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCollum in 2011, as an inappropriate use of military resources. Why, after all, is the military being used to create an attractive investment and growth environment for American companies? One of the tasks carried out by the task force was to help Kate Spade source raw materials for her handbags.
In 2009, McKinsey was given an $18.6 million contract that expanded their work from Afghanistan into Iraq.
Pete refuses to answer questions about what he was doing with McKinsey during this period, citing a non-disclosure agreement that’s over 10 years old. What we do know, however, is that Buttigieg was stationed in Herat Province for part of his resumé-building tour of duty, where McKinsey was also very active.
Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of dots to connect here, but the dots we have are worth noticing. Just like it’s worth noticing that Buttigieg found time to volunteer for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, Pat Bauer’s Indiana gubernatorial campaign, and enlist in the United States Navy – all while he was still working at his high-powered consulting gig with McKinsey. He finally left McKinsey in 2010, when he launched his losing bid for Indiana State Treasurer.
Pete Buttigieg: Navy Intelligence Officer
How exactly did Mayor Pete end up in the Navy? It’s interesting for a man who touts his service so readily, that he’s reticent to discuss it in any detail. This is no doubt related to the classified nature of his work, but it’s probably also related to how he ended up in the Navy in the first place.
The Navy Reserve’s direct commission officer program allows ambitious young professionals to pad their resumé with military service (usually in intelligence and public affairs) without having to go through tedious processes like basic training or officer candidate school. Indeed, the program has men like Buttigieg in mind: Those who want to serve, but not so badly that they’re going to put their civilian careers at risk to do so.
A highly competitive program, it receives thousands of applicants every year, accepting around a quarter of them.
This program has become de rigueur for a certain type of politically inclined social climber. Indeed, several senior members of the Trump Administration have used this program to add military service to their resumés. Sean Spicer, Reince Pribus and Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie are just three within the Administration who have benefitted from this program. It’s also popular with the rich and politically connected: George P. Bush, Hunter Biden, and Jimmy Pannetta are all alums.
The alums from this program form a tight-knit network within the government, including at the CIA, with many officers having served at Guantanamo. Buttigieg’s former commander was once the chief linguist at Gitmo, according to his LinkedIn page.
Buttigieg likes to brag about his 119 trips outside the wire, but what was he actually doing on those missions? It’s difficult to say, especially when his DD-214 was left blank.
What we do know is that Buttigieg was assigned to the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, whose ostensible purpose is combating the drug trade that exploded there after the American invasion in 2001. According to Buttigieg, while there he worked closely with every civilian intelligence alphabet agency.
There are other strange bullet points on Buttigieg’s CV. Like the time he stopped off in Somaliland, a de facto independent state from Somalia, and spent 24 hours interviewing government officials in 2008, before he was in the Navy. This escapade received a glowing, first-person report in the New York Times that reads more like a carefully crafted press release than real journalism or op-ed.
One doesn’t simply just hop over to Somaliland on a whim. It’s a difficult place to get to, and once you get there, there’s nothing going on. But Buttigieg made it in and was able to liaise with top government officials who just happened to be offering up their main port to AFRICOM, a boon that would certainly benefit the intelligence community Buttigieg later became cozy with.
Pete Buttigieg: Presidential Candidate
Buttigieg’s endorsements likewise raise questions. Why, for example, does a who’s who of spooks and coup plotters want the mayor of a small Indiana city to be the leader of the free world?
Former CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen is a big-time backer of Mayor Pete. Known as “the sanctions guru,” he crafted the sanctions the Obama Administration levied on Iran, North Korea and Russia. Cohen continues to appear before think tanks encouraging intervention in Venezuela. Other spook endorsements come from Charlie Gilbert, former deputy director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service, John Bair, former chief of staff of the CIA’s Middle East Task Force, and Dennis Bowden, who spent 26 years in vaguely defined “executive leadership positions” in the CIA among other CIA bigwigs. Robert Stasio, former chief of operations at the NSA Cyber Center, Robin Walker, former deputy intelligence officer of the Director of National Intelligence and William Wechsler, former deputy assistant secretary for special ops at the Department of Defense are three spook backers of Mayor Pete outside of the CIA.
The Grayzone has an article that is little more than a list of Mayor Pete’s spook endorsements, which also includes ties to USAID, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. The son of the president of Afghanistan is a senior foreign policy advisor for his campaign.
Why Mayor Pete? Because much like the spook community’s previous favorite, President Barack Obama (whose partisans continue rear guard action against the Trump Administration through the intel community), Pete is an empty slate with a thin resume and no convictions. His electoral appeal is mostly an imagined yearning of middle America for a gay Christian president, a bizarre fever dream of the media class.
For what it’s worth, Pete’s backers, be they spooks or not, do not seem to be taking “no” for an answer. Signs point toward the recent electoral debacle in Iowa as not the shambling disaster of an incompetent Democratic Party, but as a naked power grab.
For anyone unaware, the results of the Iowa caucuses took the better part of a week to resolve, thanks to technical difficulties stemming from an app used to tabulate and track voting.
The app maker, who claims they were caught with their pants down because the app wasn’t stress tested (extremely unlikely, as anyone who has ever worked in tech will tell you), has ties to both the Democratic Party and the Buttigieg campaign.
Could the Iowa debacle be an intel operation?
Indeed, the debacle surrounding Shadow (the name of the app used to count and track votes during the Iowa caucuses) has all the marks of a psyop. Rather than fudging the vote numbers (which there is evidence for at the esoteric state delegate equivalent level, where delegates are actually decided), perhaps the goal was simply to allow Buttigieg to declare victory, reap the media whirlwind that results from winning the Iowa caucuses and prevent his chief rival, Senator Bernie Sanders, from doing the same.
Buttigieg’s campaign was invested in Shadow to the tune of $42,500. Sadly for his campaign, New Hampshire’s elections are more straightforward, with hacking protections firmly in place and thus, much harder to steal.
It’s not necessary for Mayor Pete to be a card-carrying CIA agent or a registered asset with a handler straight out of a spy novel. It’s simply sufficient for him to traffic in the same circles, share the same values and be on board with the program.
You don’t have to be a spook to do a spook’s job. For those who spend enough time in that world, it simply becomes a matter of habit.
Deep State Mayor Pete: Could Former Naval Intelligence Officer Pete Buttigieg Be a CIA Asset? originally appeared in the Resistance Library at Ammo.com.
Yes, Obviously.
A homosexual communist and this is what America would want as leader of the country???
Didn’t we just have 8 years of that already?
Both with shaky backgrounds and lots of holes in their resume.
BUTTERBUNS is just the latest installment of marxist envelope pushing.
My guess is that they’re already in charge and have been since November, 1963.
+1000
No CC. The CIA was in charge before Kennedy’s head was splattered. It only became obvious that day.
In the identity political world each has his, hers, or its badge. His is being gay. There is virtually nothing on his resume that would qualify his to be The President. Nothing, nada, nyet, nien, and nay nay…..
Everyone above the rank of junior file clerk in government is an honorary intelligence ass-hat.
Some people can pass the Top Secret sniff test, and many can’t.
We had a clique of 5 to 10 gay officers in my overseas military detachment ages ago.
It was hard for investigators to “penetrate” their groups and see who might be committing crimes.
Military Intelligence as a specialty was full of women and homosexual mafia.
Pete would have been a popular “asset.”
Kind of like the secret gay cabal (or not so secret) in the Vatican…..
With the emphasis on ASS!
Being a Christian and being gay just doesn’t jibe for me. If he claimed to be an ex-Catholic priest I could see it. It’s a sick world out there.
Yes. Being a Christian is to be Christ like and living a life that is pleasing to God. God finds homosexuality to be an abomination, so no active homosexual can be a true Christian.
Fievel the Mouse, AKA America’s Macron will never be elected.
It’s one thing to ritually humiliate an entire nation into remaining silent about homosexuals out of fear of being ruined financially and socially, quite another to make them cast their ballot in private for a sodomite.
I hope they believe their own press and run Buttigieg on the Dem ticket. It’s going to make McGovern’s loss look like a win.
Our darker brothers have a strong bias against homosexuality and since they form the core base of the Dim party…..Mayor Penis is a non-starter. He will get crushed in SC. Great article though.
With all the millions of blacks inmates of prisons presently and formerly they have come to embrace the homo lifestyle when they are the pitchers. Obama got elected despite the internet being filled with info about him murdering his gay lover before he ran for president and him declaring not being a citizen when he debated his republican opponent when he ran for U.S. Senate. YouTube scrubbed those quickly before the ’08 election. Mayor Pete’s sole achievement with his ability to rim his husband’s anus with his tongue may well get him elected.
“despite the internet being filled with info about him murdering his gay lover before he ran for president” – which internet is that? It certainly wasn’t the one I was visiting every day.
Perhaps Google is still your friend if it is still out there. I saw plenty about that. Of course the MSM didn’t tout any of this. I even received a cd that was mass mailed before the election showing what Obama really was. I wish I still had it but wife threw it out because of the disgusting content.
Huh? His tongue?
“Peter” and “Butt” in the same name. You can’t make this insanity up. Nobody would believe you.
Just waiting for the pics to show up showing the Mayor pulling the Somali land train.
Much like the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 and the installation of the Shah it was a plan cooked up by the rogue CIA at the request of Winston Churchill. In 1952 Truman refused to give the plan his blessing, and told Churchill that the U.S. would not help him out in his quest to topple the Mossadeq regime. Likewise, Eisenhower wanted nothing to do with the shenanigans himself. The history of the CIA is the history of an unrestrained agency that makes its own rules.
Good read:
The devil’s chessboard : Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the rise of America’s secret government / David Talbot
Sure explains how a nobody comes from nowhere doesn’t it?
Explains why they are not touting his military experience as another Tulsi Gabbard.
yeh this is all good information on pete’s “background”, what goes unmentioned though is the fact that his father was an out in the open marxist who wrote books about and translated the writings of italian antonio gramsci– the man who is widely considered the father of the idea and concept of using marxism to destroy a nation from within not by a quick violent revolution, but by a decades long process he called “cultural hedgemony”. and like teen aged barry’s obvious influence by and association with communist frank marshall davis….the MSM completely ignores everything surrounding pete’s father. to the media he was simply a “retired english professor”.
The difference will be that Trump will not ignore it like McLame did, should Buttgig get on the dem ticket.
Don’t make us laugh about Obama’s “communism.” The men bent himself into a pretzel serving each and every demand of the Too-big-to-fail banks and the 1% (and is now richly rewarded with six-figure speeches and guaranteed million-dollar book deals any time he likes)
Butt head is a post turtle. When traveling down the road and you see a turtle sitting on top of a post, one thing is for certain, he didn’t get there by himself. But neither did the coyote hanging on the fence beside him.
Of course he is. In the same way that Obama “came out of nowhere” to end up as Senator and president, Butthead is following suit.
Let’s not forget Slick the Draft Dodger and how he was pushed forward by J. William Fullbright.
Pete a CIA asshat?
I contend that you don’t get a seat in the oval office if you are not a CIA asshat. Without doubt Buttgigger is Navel Intel/CIA.
I’m sure you will down that concept……truth is truth. Deal with it.
Spent a little time in the U S Navy, I noticed they did not say which navy “butter butt” was in. Went through “tedious processes like basic training or officer candidate school” plus some other schooling and also ended up in Naval Intelligence. First please understand, there is intelligence and then there is “intelligence”. I was even offered a position with in the CIA, but had already seen them at work and ran away as fast as I could. I say all this so everyone is aware of why I say I have just found one more reason to NOT cast any kind of favorable comments or vote in the direction of Mayor Pete. Actually, it gives me even more reason to stand by a previous comment about “IF” he were elected he could rightly be addressed as the “coxsucker-and-chief”. Also, as I commented before, this gives his partner the title of “first-coxsucker”. As opposed to the “first lady”.
“first-coxsucker”-wow! That will really get Michelle Obama’s attention.
Barry was lucky if Big Mike would give him a reach around.
It’s a big practical joke with these DEEP STATE people. In 2008 they were like, “We’ll run a mulatto and we’ll call him, get this: Barack HUSSEIN OBAMA! We were at war with both of those guys. And the yokels will still vote for him!” In 2020 they’re going, “We’ll run this homo, and get this, his name is Pete BUTT-GAG! LOL! And the rubes will still vote for him!”
“Second, that he’s a former Navy intelligence officer.”
Things are coming into better focus now:
I was walking down the pier in San Diego when they were wrapping up the shoot for this video. My ship was on the same pier.
Hope he gets the democrat nomination as he is unelectable.
What an excellent article! “What we do know is that Buttigieg was assigned to the Afghan Threat Finance Cell, whose ostensible purpose is combating the drug trade that exploded there after the American invasion in 2001. ” That alone should be enough to discredit him: Even the U.N. freely admitted that under Taliban control opium poppy planting was severely repressed- but a little web surfing turns up one story after another of U.S. troops guarding the poppy fields! (and after 50,000 U.S. soldiers killed in in Vietnam it was revealed that the CIA was directly involved in drug trading that left thousands of surviving veterans addicted.
But my antennae started twitching when I heard Buttigieg comment on TV that regarding Syria (where the presence of U.S. troops in a nation that is not at war with us is an overt act of war -but denied as such in the MSM because, as in Venezuela, the nominal head of state, Bashar al-Assad is not regarded as the “legitimate” head of state), that a “certain number of operatives” [meaning CIA] should be maintained there.