1. You are aware that FBI Director Christopher Wray rendered testimony before Congress yesterday.
Answer: I am, yes.
2. Is there anything you would like to say about the manner in which he acquitted himself?
Answer: First, I would like to say that FBI agents and FBI management, like all American citizens, deserve to be safe from all threats, intimidation and harm.
And it's necessary to repeat this refrain over and over again so that people can fully internalize that a civil society means that everyone's civil liberties and human rights are preserved.
3. At the same time, you have named your younger son's FBI handler as someone who has caused -- and who continues to cause -- grievous harm to your family.
Answer: I have named him, yes.
But Txx Lxxxx still has the right to due process under the law, and I will forever support his right to due process under the law.
4. You support peaceable, lawful redress in circumstances in which those in authority have violated the civill liberties and human rights of law-abiding American citizens such as yourself and the members of your family.
Answer: In all cases.
5. Why do you feel that way?
Answer: Our democracy requires that we uphold the rights of all, even and especially those who have caused us unconscionable harm.
Those within far right factions of the FBI would prefer that reasonable people lose their equanimity, their reason, and their calm so that they can be readily discredited.
It's necessary for supporters of democracy to refuse to cooperate with those aims.
In remaining dedicated to the steady, indefatigable progress of the law, those who love democracy ensure that the architecture of democracy remains unshaken.
6. Returning to Director Wray's testimony for a moment, it appeared yesterday that Mr. Wray was being assailed by the far right.
Answer: The FBI leadership has become quite skilled at distancing itself from the far right at critical junctures.
People who perceive some of the behind-the-scenes angst within the FBI right now will best be capable of assessing the agency's strenuous attempts to claim that there is no politically motivated collusion with the far right.
7. You have said that the FBI is a deeply divided agency.
Answer: It absolutely is.
There are many honorable people who work for the FBI -- people who love this country, who love the Constitution, who are dedicated to free and fair elections.
Unfortunately, there are also FBI divisions which are profoundly compromised by alliances with the far right, and even with foreign interests -- and to the extent that they have come to represent an insider threat to our national sovereignty.
8. Do you view a portion of Christopher Wray's testimony as knowing disinformation?
Answer: I do, yes.
9. Did it appear to you that some exchanges with congressional staff had been scripted?
Answer: Meticulously. Yes.
10. Why would FBI Director Christopher Wray go to all that trouble?
Answer: The FBI has been caught in a broad-scale scheme of falsified law enforcement reporting for anti-democratic objectives -- and a whole panoply of crimes relating to that falsified reporting. The seriousness of the deployment of the Phoenix Program against law-abiding American citizens certainly has the potential to develop into an existential crisis for the agency.
11. Is Christopher Wray aware of the agency's wide-scale perpetration of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting? Or could these crimes possibly be due to rogue agents or divisions who are acting of their own accord?
Answer: I believe that Director Christopher Wray is well aware of the crimes being committed by far right FBI personnel against the law-abiding American public.
12. Why is that your belief?
Answer: Because in April of 2020, after Director Wray had voiced repeated objections to a more aggressive set of Constitutional violations being demanded by the Trump White House and other interests, there was an attempt to replace Christopher Wray with William Evanina, as reported in Politico. https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/20/trump-wray-fbi-chief-489725.
Following that showdown, it is said that Director Wray acquiesced to the FBI's expanding role as a political force in opposition to the Constitution.
He held onto his job, just barely, by allowing much more aggressive violations of the law from Counterintelligence.
So, yes. I believe that Director Wray is well aware of the corruption within the agency and the threat it represents to American democracy -- and, in truth, to democracies around the world.
13. What is required for the truth of this matter to emerge into public view?
Answer: One case of a law-abiding "target of interest" who has been wrongfully surveilled and harmed by far right factions of the FBI.
14. Why is that so difficult?
Answer: The vast majority of people in such a situation, under threat to their lives and their family members' lives, are going to cave in, take some massive payoff being extended to them, and hope to somehow recover their former lives.
15. Yet, you haven't.
Answer: No, I haven't.
16. Why not?
Answer: I want my family to live, and I need to make this very clear. But I also want them to live with freedom, dignity, privacy, safety, faith and honesty -- just as I myself want to live with those gifts that are so inseparable from our democracy.
Beyond that, I want other people to be able to live with freedom, dignity, privacy, safety, faith and honesty.
I have sufficient courage to make that stand, so I am making it.
17. You don't believe that you're alone in holding to your principles on this issue.
Answer: No, I don't.
The OIG Hotline is holding to its principles on this issue.
The ODNI leadership is holding to its principles on this issue.
President Biden is holding to his principles on this issue.
So, no, I am not alone.
18. Will you prepare more affidavits for the OIG Hotline to further this effort?
Answer: Yes, I will. We hope to be able to access impartial medical care as soon as possible, and that has been a great challenge for us lately. But yes, I will continue to work on documentation.
19. You still believe wholeheartedly in the United States of America.
Answer: The United States of America is made up of you and me. As long as people of ethics, integrity, and character are standing with courage and commitment in defense of the civil liberties and human rights of their fellow citizens, we have not relinquished our claim on the soul of this nation as a force for good.
20. Do you hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct?
Answer: I do.
Lane MacWilliams
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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. 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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