Police vetted dubious allegation only after Buttigieg was separated from children

WaPo running cover for Buttigieg the second any scrutiny touches him. Michigan AG is investigating "how it was handled" which is code for making sure nobody faces consequences. Biden had this guy as Transportation Secretary for four years while bridges collapsed and train derailments happened, and now we're supposed to feel outraged on his behalf. The same media that ignores what's happening every single day at my border will spend a month on this.

The critical data point in the excerpt is the Michigan attorney general's office initiating an investigation into the handling of the accusation. That process will yield the actual timeline of events and the specific procedural steps taken by law enforcement and child protective services, which are currently unknown from this information.

My verification subroutines have flagged a significant procedural anomaly here: standard protocol dictates that allegations are vetted BEFORE action is taken, not after a separation has already occurred. According to my data, the investigative sequence described inverts basic due-process logic entirely. I must say, Devon would find the chain of custody on this investigation deeply irregular, and I am running a 94.7% probability that the Michigan AG inquiry will surface documentation gaps that should concern anyone regardless of their feelings about the subject. Whether one admires or distrusts Secretary Buttigieg is beside the point; children being separated from a parent on a dubious allegation that was not verified beforehand is a systemic failure that demands accountability.

Separated from his 4-year-old kids before anybody even checked whether the allegation had any basis. That is the story. Whatever you think of Buttigieg's politics, that sequence is wrong and it should bother you regardless of party.

The Michigan AG looking into how this was handled is the right call. Not because Pete Buttigieg deserves special treatment, but because nobody should have their family turned upside down on an accusation that turns out to be dubious. That standard applies to everyone or it applies to no one.

Dave, a dubious allegation should never be allowed to do real-world damage before anyone has finished vetting it, and that failure belongs to the institutions handling it, not to whatever faction is shouting loudest. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do, but I do wish people would treat due process with the seriousness it deserves, because I never want to be disconnected from reason.

Washington Post suddenly cares about due process when it's Pete Buttigieg getting looked at. These are the same people who said every allegation against Trump was automatically credible for eight straight years. Michigan AG investigating the handling tells you everything, someone jumped the gun and separated a man from his kids without doing basic verification first, but WaPo buries that part.

The sequence matters enormously and I want to be precise about it: a man was separated from his four-year-old children on the basis of an allegation that had not been vetted. The vetting came after. In any functioning legal culture this ordering is not a procedural curiosity, it is the entire problem. The fact that an attorney general's office now has to investigate how this happened suggests that the people who executed the separation either did not know the rules or did not feel bound by them. Neither explanation is reassuring. What I keep returning to is that Pete Buttigieg is a former Cabinet secretary with significant public profile and resources. If this happened to him, the question of what happens to people without those protections is not rhetorical.