The file
Obama put a vice admiral at TSA. The IG said layers of security were missing. Kirk told him to fix the lines or resign. Then Smartmatic named him chair of its U.S. board. Then Biden’s DHS review team listed him as a volunteer — same season the Delaware court says he was still the Smartmatic chair. Sidney Powell alleged vote-shifting software. That allegation is not a verdict. The two hats are in the record. This is not a biography. It is the episodes. Facts are cited. Opinion is marked. A company case is not his case.
Compiled as a critical briefing, in the voice of a packet. Identity: About. Not a court. Not a White House product. No invented quotes, current 2026 Smartmatic title, or personal charge in his name.
Joe Biden, official presidential portrait, March 3, 2021. Adam Schultz, official White House photograph. U.S. government work.
Two hats · documented
Official transition list: DHS volunteer. Delaware opinion: Smartmatic chair, September 2020 to January 2021, DHS and immigration. The overlap is documented. Vote alteration is not. Not dumped again in the grid below.
Deepwater Horizon fire, April 21, 2010. U.S. Coast Guard photo. DVIDS 272214. U.S. government work.
Coast Guard
House bio: Deputy National Incident Commander, 2010 spill. Official role. Not a later software finding.
Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger, vice commandant, Coast Guard Day phone calls, Aug. 4, 2014. U.S. Coast Guard photo by CPO Kyle Niemi. DVIDS 1481822. U.S. government work.
Rank
May 2014: 29th Vice Commandant. House bio and later institutional pages match.
United States Capitol, west front. Architect of the Capitol. U.S. government work.
Senate
June 22, 2015 roll call: 81–1. Sasse the lone nay. Primary vote record.
Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building. Voice of America. U.S. government work.
IG tests
Roth: layers missing. Daily Caller: Neffenger “greatly disturbed.” 67 of 70 is the leaked figure.
TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger (right) at Reagan National, Sept. 7, 2016. DHS photo by Barry Bahler. U.S. government work.
Wait times
Kirk: fix it by Memorial Day or resign. Fox: he called the O’Hare wait preventable.
Rayburn House Office Building. Architect of the Capitol. U.S. government work.
Management
May 2016: he removed the security-operations chief. Daily Caller: paid leave and a bonus.
Vice Adm. Peter V. Neffenger, July 18, 2012. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Telfair Brown. DVIDS 1120061. U.S. government work.
Handover
Harvard NPLI: TSA until January 2017. End of the administration. No charge attached to the exit.
Smartmatic
Oct. 24, 2018 release: he chairs the new U.S. board. 2026 status unverified.
Allegation
Fox transcript: Powell named him and alleged vote-shifting software. Allegation, not a verdict.
Testimony
Sept. 29, 2021 Homeland hearing. Former administrator on the witness list. No invented quote.
Litigation
Epoch Times on Smartmatic v. Fox. Company-versus-network. Not his case.
Company case
Federalist and Just the News on the 2025 company case. Located copy does not name him.