Consider that a highly educated political leader was told he had to let government agents interview his children, and that his children could not stay in their own home. There was no plausible evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing. There was an anonymous tip from someone who claimed they heard from someone else (also unnamed) that years earlier Buttigieg had confessed to crimes that made him a risk to children. Any freshman police officer would know this vague, uncorroborated, double hearsay would never be enough to obtain a warrant to conduct a search or take custody of anyone. But Buttigieg, a parent with far more privileges than most, apparently believed he had no choice but to comply. He was not told his rights. He wasn’t even provided with the allegations against him.