My Third Novel's Conclusion, My Heartbreak

My heart begins to break when I think about completing this particular book -- because this narrative has sustained me like no other story I've known. It's both more personal and more universal than my other works. But beyond memory and archetype, it's a cri-de-coeur about needing to become the person one is destined to be. And in the writing, I have met my own life's work, my own fated journey -- having the sense all the while that the pages are suffused with a resonance, an energy, an electrified field that defies explanation. Writers hope and pray to be overtaken by a work in this way -- to be conscripted into passionate service of a profound story. To experience it even once in a lifetime seems a great privilege. I still have several months before this novel is complete, and this constitutes my reprieve. Because I'm not ready for the beauty to end.




Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Rachel Maddow on the Arrest of a Former FBI Counterintelligence Official

1. Did you see Rachel Maddow's interview on MSNBC with Mary McCord, former top national security official at the U.S. DOJ?

Answer:  I did.  This involved the arrest of a former top FBI Counterintelligence official for money laundering for Russian oligarchs.

2.  What were your impressions?

Answer:  I was extremely pleased to see this development, and all praise goes to Rachel Maddow for asking some of the difficult questions relating to Russian infiltration of the far right within the FBI.  The investigators involved in this arrest are to be celebrated.

3.  What questions would you have added to Rachel Maddow's dialogue if you could?

Answer:  Is it reasonable to assume that money laundering activities for Russian interests were limited to a single former FBI Counterintelligence official?  Is it possible that the FBI elected to cast the blame on a lone former intelligence official rather than address more widespread problems of Russian infiltration of the national security apparatus as represented by far right personnel within the FBI?

4.  You think the problem of Russian infiltration of the far right has manifested in FBI Counterintelligence in a more systemic way.

Answer:  I do.

5.  Why is this your belief?

Answer:  Primarily because my stalker, who is reported to be a leading member of Russian-affiliated organized crime within the Untied States, appears to exert as much control over the FBI as Christopher Wray does, if not more.  In the past, he described Counterintelligence within the FBI as a "den of vice."  His words.  He appeared to refer to extensive involvement in this division with human trafficking and drug trafficking activities within the U.S.

6.  Did he appear to suggest that many agents were being paid off?

Answer:  "Who will pay the ferryman?" was his frequent refrain.  He seemed to be stating that payoffs to law enforcement, both local and federal, were the routine "cost of doing business" from the perspective of Russian-affiliated organized crime.

7.  What else struck you about the Rachel Maddow interview?

Answer:  Mary McCord at one point stated that her colleagues within FBI Counterintelligence were not typically pursuing investigations that led to charges.  They were, instead, simply "keeping America safe" with their ongoing investigations.  I found that commentary fairly heartbreaking.

8.  Why?

Answer:  Endless surveillance and interminable investigations of "targets of interest" likely represent falsified law enforcement reporting by FBI Counterintelligence personnel that cannot, as of this writing, result in charges against the innocent.

A Quora poster wrote this recently:

For years the FBI has been bloated, and needs busy work to line their files with to justify their existence and budgets.  Therefore, the fusion centers and Infragard create false "suspects" from the 2.5 million people on the main core terrorist watchlist, and proceed to perform intensive gangstalking on them, disguising it as "community policing."

That account sounds fairly accurate, though I suspect total numbers of Americans being actively surveilled by the FBI and affiliates well exceeds 2. 5 million.

9.  Why do you say that falsifications cannot likely result in charges of the innocent "as of this writing"?

Answer:  It's necessary to understand that falsified law enforcement reporting on this broad scale is goal-directed.  This is not merely "busy work" for an over-funded agency.  Falsified law enforcement reporting is, I believe, certainly intended to result in false charges at a future time.

We need to look at historical examples to understand the intention of those who engage in wide-scale falsified law enforcement reporting against law-abiding American citizens.  The Nazis defamed Jews as perpetrators of every crime imaginable for years before taking them forcibly from their homes.

Falsified law enforcement reporting has an objective, and it is not benevolent.

10.  When would far right factions of the FBI feel empowered to engage in mass arrests?

Answer: After a coup attempt such as that perpetrated on January 6, 2021, if the results of that insurrection had been different.  Try to recall that QAnon posters were predicting mass arrests if Trump had been re-elected.  https://www.businessinsider.com/qanon-trump-capitol-attack-belief-precursor-the-storm-2021-1

Where was all of the documentation to justify those threatened arrests of Democrats and journalists?  Who was aggregating it?  Who was creating it?

11.  You believe that far right factions within FBI Counterintelligence were doing so.

Answer:  I believe that to be the case, yes.  A portion of the falsified law enforcement reporting in which the FBI has engaged in my case may align with far right conspiracy theory.  Russia has used these precise stratagems to discredit its political opponents for years.  See paragraph number four of the following New York Times article:  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/europe/russia-historian-stalin-mass-graves.html   

So, it's alarming to see these methods appearing within FBI Counterintelligence, and it immediately raises questions for me about other degrees of compromise with regard to Russia.

12.  I am told that FBI Counterintelligence is now attempting to mischaracterize you and your husband as racist.

Answer:  First, according to criminal agents, I was delusional.  Then, according to criminal agents,  I was a predator toward children.  Next, according to criminal agents, I was a human trafficker.  After that, according to criminal agents. I was a drug dealer and manufacturer.  Eventually, according to criminal agents, I was a spy.  More recently, according to criminal agents, I was a tax evader.  Now, according to criminal agents, I am racist.

13.  How does it feel to be continually and willfully slandered in this manner?

Answer:  It feels like being the "target" of a group of predators without conscience, empathy or remorse.  But we need to expose the truth about the crimes of far right factions within the FBI or our democracy will founder.

14.  Can this group's crimes be halted before this insider threat to our democracy advances further?

Answer:  I believe they can.  

But one thing I will say is that my stalker has repeatedly referenced his view that he is engaged in a "race" to create disinformation in an effort to discredit me as an FBI whistleblower.    Counterintelligence and its affiliates need to stop creating fake allegations about my family while investigators have the freedom to pursue their fact-finding in the manner they determine most appropriate. Otherwise, far right segments of the FBI are controlling everyone with their constant stream of lies, threats, and invective.

15.  Your stalker calls his group within the FBI "shrewd thespians."

Answer:  Yes, and it's astonishing to understand that they see themselves as purveyors of disinformation.  Members of the far right know they're lying.  They simply feel entitled to get away with it.

16.  You are still awaiting materials responsive to your FOIA request.  What is the basis on which they have been withheld from you?

Answer:  I am entirely law abiding and so is my husband.  There is no basis on which the FBI can withhold these materials from me.

17.  And you desire these materials in their entirety.

Answer:  The materials in their entirety have been used as a knowingly false basis for the defamation of my character for years by far right FBI personnel.  I have a right to examine them in full.

18. You sound determined.

Answer:  Decidedly so.

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The FBI is a deeply divided agency.  There are many FBI employees who view their vows to the Constitution with the utmost seriousness and honor, and who strive to defend the fundamentals of our democracy with courage, fortitude and commitment.  The fact that some segments of the FBI appear to have embraced a lawless course is not a justification to assail the FBI in general.  The safety of FBI agents should be protected, just as the safety of the American citizenry should be protected.  As President Joseph R. Biden has so rightly expressed, violence is never justified in any circumstance.  The rule of law must always be honored and upheld.  It is our shared determination to preserve the civil liberties and human rights of ALL AMERICANS that renders the United States a democracy.  We must never abandon this promise.  All of our most cherished freedoms depend upon it.



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