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A secretive corporation won't let Pete Buttigieg talk about three years of his life

By presidential campaign standards, Pete Buttigieg has been pretty much an open book - but with one chapter missing.

The Democratic South Bend, Ind., mayor has let reporters sit on his campaign bus and pelt him with questions until they get tired; he's spoken at length about his personal experience coming out as a gay man; he's shown a willingness to face some of his most withering critics.

But Buttigieg won't talk about his three years of work for McKinsey & Co., the famous, secretive - and lately, notorious - management consulting firm.

Almost a decade after leaving McKinsey in 2010, Buttigieg is still bound by a nondisclosure agreement that his campaign says McKinsey is refusing to lift, leaving

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