Tulsi Gabbard's political career was secretly directed by her guru Chris Butler. Under the pen name Bo Zhongyan (
柏忠言
), Butler also coauthored anti-Western books in China with his wife Wai Lana (Zhang Huilan,
张蕙兰
). They described Westerners as
"no more than dogs"
and dedicated their 1986 book to
"the great and magnificent Chinese nation"
—
这个伟大，壮丽国家的全体中国人民.
Source
Thousands of documents and emails from the covert Science of Identity political operation have been independently examined by the Washington Post. The content on this website is attributed solely to the site's author.
Chris Butler ran his entire operation, including Tulsi Gabbard's political career, out of a single confidential Science of Identity "project office" in Hawaii. This post lays out the forensic evidence: 19,558 emails, 1,781 decrypted PGP documents, and 2,155 unique IP addresses, built into a searchable database.
Chris Butler is the founder of the Science of Identity Foundation, a small, secretive religious organization. He is Tulsi Gabbard's guru, and he controlled her political life from the beginning. Sunil Khemaney is one of his longtime operatives, the man who handled money, legal matters, and logistics for Butler and the Gabbards.
For decades, Butler ran everything through one hub: a confidential "project office" in Hawaii. His religious organization, the Wai Lana Yoga business, Mike Gabbard's campaigns, and Tulsi Gabbard's political career all passed through it. This is the forensic record of how that office operated.
Chris Butler's secret project office
The project office managed all of Butler's operations, including Tulsi Gabbard's political career. Everything went through it. It was run for more than 20 years by Butler's longtime secretary, Allison Hoen (Khemaney), who was later replaced by Science of Identity insider Kit Robinson. Sunil Khemaney, a key figure in Butler's operations, also lived and worked there.
Public business records show the project office property is owned by an LLC that lists Science of Identity Foundation president Jeannie Bishop as the point of contact. The same address appears in filings connected to Wai Lana Yoga, with Sunil Khemaney listed as the point of contact. 1
First-person account
How I got here
From the time I met Chris Butler in 1996, he had a "project office" and a "personal secretary" who acted as a conduit between himself, his disciples, and the "serious students" who worked directly with him. Few people in Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) and its satellite groups ever worked with Butler directly.
When I first met Tulsi's parents, then Butler, my plan was to learn meditation and go back to the East Coast, where I grew up. But Butler wanted me to be one of his secretaries in Hawaii, along with my former college roommate Allison Hoen (Khemaney). I didn't have the will to tell him no, even though I was reluctant. (The situation with my family, my health, and other complicating issues is a story for another day.) That is how my decades-long entanglement in Butler's inner circle began, off and on, ending with my 7+ years on Tulsi's campaign.
Unlike many people in Science of Identity, after I left Hawaii in 2002 I chose to live geographically apart from the satellite communities. There were long gaps in my personal involvement with Butler.
When it came to Tulsi's campaign, I didn't mind helping. Her original platform around ending regime-change wars aligned with my personal principles.
How Butler's project office was used for Tulsi's campaign
Everything Butler worked on, to my knowledge, came through his project office. Allison Hoen (Khemaney) was in this role for more than 20 years. It all operated under total secrecy: heavy-duty PGP encryption, military-style document naming conventions, and stringent security protocols, even going back to the 1990s.
I cut off contact with this organization several years ago, after uncovering widespread corruption and child sexual abuse.
Butler was part of the Wai Lana Yoga project. He co-authored books with her, recorded music, and the brand was built on the Chinese Communist Party's state television. CCTV aired Wai Lana's yoga show on its main channels three times a day for 15 years (1985-2000). Wai Lana Yoga disclosed paying Sunil Khemaney through its trust. 2
Sunil also lived in the project office.
Butler directed Mike Gabbard's campaigns through it. He directed Healthy Inc., later bought by QNET, founded by longtime Butler disciple Joseph Bismarck. Science of Identity, registered as a "church," previously owned Healthy. And then Butler directed Tulsi's campaign through the same project office and the same overlapping team, including Sunil Khemaney and Allison Hoen (Khemaney).
Allison Hoen and Sunil Khemaney lived there while they were married, and other Science of Identity people worked inside, usually for no pay, carrying out Butler's operations under total secrecy.
In August 2025 I discovered I still had a copy of everything: thousands of emails and 1,000+ decrypted PGP-encrypted documents from my time on the campaign. I thought I had deleted all of it years earlier, but the files had been sent to me twice. I built a forensic database from it all. Here is a sample of what the data shows.
The forensic database
2,155
Unique IP addresses
How I built this forensic database
I am not a digital forensics expert, though I have some digital expertise. I am a senior SEO strategist, content manager, and web developer with 15+ years of digital marketing experience, and I spent 7+ years as a senior PR and social media strategist inside the Science of Identity and Tulsi operation. That is where this data came from. I used AI tools to help me parse, analyze, and query this archive across multiple passes, cross-referencing the forensic results against what I personally witnessed over decades inside Science of Identity.
I exported the complete contents of my two Gmail accounts using Google Takeout, which produces standard MBOX archive files containing every email I ever sent or received through those accounts. These two accounts were the ones used for all Science of Identity and Tulsi Gabbard campaign communications.
The emails contained thousands of PGP-encrypted document attachments: Butler's transcripts, political reports, talking points, media-monitoring documents, and more. PGP encryption preserves the original file exactly as it existed on the sender's computer, including all of the document's internal metadata: author name, creation date, what computer it was made on, and which software template was used. When I decrypted these documents, all of that original forensic data was still intact, preserved inside the encryption like a time capsule.
I put everything into a SQL database: the full text and headers of every email, the contents and metadata of every decrypted document, and all the accompanying forensic data (IP addresses, sender information, timestamps, encryption details). That database is what powers the analysis.
Much of these emails and documents I barely read at the time. Butler had a rule that we had to reply to his secretarial staff confirming receipt of every document, so I would auto-send "received" and never open most of them. My role was PR and social media. I based strategy on publicly available facts and tried to stay on the outside edges of Butler's inner circle as much as I could. Email chains with comments directed to me personally, I read. But the bulk of the encrypted documents, the political reports, the internal strategy memos, I never looked at until this past year. Only now, going through the database, am I seeing the full scope of what was coming through the project office.
The conclusions in the posts that follow are based on standard email forensic techniques, the same methods used in law enforcement investigations and legal proceedings. I explain each technique as I go so you can evaluate the evidence yourself.
What comes next
I sat on this data for months before I started writing about it. Not because I doubted what it showed. I lived inside this operation for years, and the forensics confirmed what I already knew. I sat on it because I understood what it meant to put it out there, and I wanted to make sure I did it right.
The database contains evidence of a covert political infrastructure that connected a sitting Congresswoman's official business to Chris Butler's covert operations office in Hawaii. It shows IP addresses, email routing, encryption systems, document metadata, and organizational structures that were deliberately designed to stay hidden.
In the posts that follow, I will walk through the forensic evidence section by section, starting with what I consider the most significant finding: that Tulsi Gabbard used Science of Identity's private email infrastructure to conduct congressional business from the U.S. House of Representatives, routing government drafts through Butler's covert systems to Sunil Khemaney and Allison Hoen at the project office.
Tulsi Gabbard was appointed Director of National Intelligence in 2025. She held the highest security clearances in the U.S. government and oversaw 18 intelligence agencies. The evidence here documents what was happening behind the scenes long before that appointment.
