Snitchuational Awareness: Johnathan Buma
Been waiting for the other shoe to drop, just heard a thud.
Johnathan Buma, the FBI agent that was pursuing Rudy Giuliani, and who served as a handler for both Charles Johnson and Peter Thiel, has been arrested in New York.
The initial mention of Snitchuational Awareness was during the first week of January and among the categories of “feds” there are four that sorta fit this situation.
Federal Cooperating Human Sources (CHS) who are mostly observers.
Actual DHS and FBI agents.
Publicly visible “handlers”, who in rare cases are former DHS/FBI.
Corporate spooks - not LE, but may engage in LE-like behavior.
The evening of November 5th I knew there was going to be a politically motivated housecleaning of the entire intel network the FBI built after the J6 attack. Buma & Co. are something older, but similar. This would be interesting in any event, but given Buma was Thiel’s handler … we may see the knives come out at a much higher level.
Attention Conservation Notice:
This post is part of a recurring theme; stuff that’s terrible for the United States, but which pleases me in an “I see you’re Finding Out” kinda way. This is the sort of thing one should stay far, far away from in 2025.
Backstory:
Charles Johnson approached me in August of 2023, as part of a wave of people from his world crossing through mine. I noted it but just let it sit, assuming there’d be some GOTCHA move, which is something I’ve seen repeatedly from right wing players on the influence ops field. Once the Buma story broke I lightened up a bit and decided to see what he wanted.
And I added Buma as a contact just after New Years 2024.
The two of them decided to treat Tundra, the previously unnamed dipshit persona that was the subject of Individual None a little more than a year ago, as if he were some sort of mover/shaker. I’m fairly sure the persona changed hands; the original had enough screws loose that he rattled whenever he moved. The new one is less stupid.
This is me talking with Johnson. I don’t recall why I redacted it but it’s one of those rare cases where I lost the original. You can still get the gist of things …
Methods & Motivations:
So Buma is the official agent, Johnson is source and handler of others, and I presume Thiel had a similar role. Why would I interact with these people at all? These are the jackal’s methods - lions kill hyenas and painted dogs whenever they can, but violence against jackals is rare. These small specialists, alone or perhaps in pairs, can be within easy pouncing range at a lion’s kill and they’ll be permitted to linger, waiting their chance to snatch a mouthful. Apparently the light, fast jackal will also sometimes flush prey for lions - it’s reminiscent of how humans and dogs became close, a working relationship.
Buma was in a sort of whistleblower role, and since Project VIGILANT and Chelsea Manning, I’ve paid attention to such people. Manning was out of line in what she did, obviously, but I have yet to see a case where the misconduct a whistleblower reports gets handled properly, and a number of them got locked up. 21st century America shoots the messenger and ignores the real problem.
So I darted in to see if there were any tasty bits available, I got offered a very stale nuisance actor, and I ghosted both of them. I don’t think they expected me to take the Tundra persona seriously, in the past I’ve been told that my presence is “extraordinarily disruptive”; I read it as being invited to find someone else to bother.
Today:
A worldly individual would just assume that there’d be power consolidation and house cleaning with the new administration. The DOJ launched its largest investigation ever after the January 6th attack. This means not only did they turn people that they caught, in general they were trying to develop a network of sources for the sake of visibility.
There’s going to be vicious infighting as those networks are uncovered. Buma’s situation is interesting, because:
He is a special agent, the interface from the network to the machine.
He is on the outs in a way that would have been bad even if Harris had won, now it’s truly awful for him … and anyone associated with him.
Due to the nature of things, in particular Johnson’s presence, I think we will get to see more of what is happening than in any other similar situation.
Johnson has enough money to be a “lion fish” - he can puff up a bit and make himself unpalatable.
People who never imagined that either Johnson or Thiel might be counter intelligence sources have been trying to do a counter intelligence exercise of their own. Johnson has been very busy on his Substack, it’s mostly focused on his theories regarding Mossad’s compromise of this or that person or agency. My impression is that this is “truthy”, among his other agenda items I’m sure there’s one that reads “Don’t get turned into Buma’s cellmate.” Shifting attention to an existing hot button is a good move.
And yet … there was another VERY telling move at a national level - newly declassified JFK files. We were due to get the files on Jeffrey Epstein, instead there’s a smoke screen. Trump is all over the Epstein files … but who else is among the compromised?
And there most certainly IS a Mossad angle to all of that.
Conclusion:
Buma was investigating a serious counter-intel problem for the United States and he developed two top notch sources in Charles Johnson and Peter Thiel. There was ample reason to do these things. Reasons, not probable cause, because counter-intel is prosecution averse in many situations; they have less needs to make cases, they’re just supposed to keep the playing field clean.
The leak accusations are quite serious; consider what happened to Reality Winner - she got five years for dropping five pages. I am glad that the world knows some of what Buma knew, but this looks like every other whistleblower situation I’ve ever seen. The messenger gets burnt at the stake while the culprits continue capering as if nothing happened.
This seems like appropriate mood music for this piece …
And now I feel seen … and validated a bit :-)
