1. 60 Minutes aired an episode last night involving the CIA's report of DoD acquisition of a directed energy device from Russian contractors, one which is capable of causing severe cognitive disabilities, including significant depression, after even a single deployment. May I please know your response?
Answer: Kudos to the DoD for calling attention to this modality of attack against American citizens.
The CIA has known about these deployments for a long time, and, clearly, the DoD is disagreeing with their continued use.
So, our military deserves high praise for taking a stand, and we all need to acknowledge that this was likely exceptionally difficult.
2. Why is that your assessment?
Answer: The victims included State Department personnel and their families, CIA personnel and their families, security contractors and their families. I would be shocked if Pentagon personnel were spared entirely.
There would have been significant internal struggles over how to handle this problem.
I think we need to recognize that Russia was supporting the deployment of these life-changing assaults as tools of political and personal grievance. Some of our own intelligence personnel were being co-opted into perpetrating these deployments. And we need to understand how dangerous such concealed tools of assault are to a sovereign nation.
What is to prevent our elected officials from being harmed by such devices? Our military leaders? Our judges? Our cabinet members? Our allies?
When these devices are proliferating within the boundaries of our own domestic territory, we are going to have major challenges in terms of concealed court proceedings that permit such deployments to be perpetrated.
Were there quotas connected to these deployments? This is likely the case.
3. Where are these devices being manufactured? 60 Minutes referenced Russian contractors, but are there any domestic manufacturers of these weapons?
Answer: The FBI alleges that there are domestic manufacturers, yes. Do they involve Raytheon or other security contractors as the FBI suggests? I don't have independent confirmation of that allegation, so I cannot definitively say.
But I think the Pentagon is signaling that the military leadership would like to see these weapons retired, and I would heartily agree with them.
4. Who would be supporting their continued use within the United States?
Answer: Russia is obviously supporting these deplorable attacks, together with the contractors and personnel that have treated these weapons as a "new market" for domestic deployments within the United States.
5. Does Raytheon, if in fact Raytheon is involved, have a responsibility to say, "We are not going to participate in the further harm of Americans by profiting from the manufacture of these devices?"
Do the FBI and CIA have a responsibility to destroy the devices currently in its possession?
Do FBI and CIA contractors who are calibrating these assaults have a responsibility to find other work?
Do American judges have a responsibility to prohibit the use of these devices as "punishment" for unknown "crimes"?
Answer: Yes to all of the above. And we might further ask whether Congress has a role to play in writing legislation to prevent the use of these devices against Americans in every circumstance.
6. Do these weapons have the capability of causing dementia if they are repeatedly deployed on certain settings?
Answer: The FBI alleges that they do, yes. So, we can see how dangerous this capability is in a political context alone. Anyone arguing for our national sovereignty could be immediately placed at risk by such concealed deployments.
And again, I think our military leadership is saying no to this technology, and I think we need to support that decision.
7. How quickly could a withdrawal of these weapons occur nationwide?
Answer: If the Congress joins together in a bipartisan effort to pass legislation on this matter, the devices could be withdrawn very rapidly. And the Congress could ask the intelligence agencies to halt all deployments while the legislation is being drafted. So, the use of these weapons could stop virtually overnight, which is exactly what should happen at this juncture.
8. Would you include all devices that are capable of causing cognitive harm or organ damage?
Answer: Yes, I would. These are all concealed deployments based on knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting. And we simply need to agree that the diminishment of Americans' health and cognitive capacity is not in the national interest. Nor is the threat of this type of human rights violation if someone exercises free speech, human rights advocacy for the long term, or takes a courageous stance in defense of the sovereignty of the United States as a whole.
9. Have these directed energy devices been deployed against your family members and yourself?
Answer: Certainly, it would be helpful to see the records regarding this matter. The FBI has alleged that there have been recurring wrongful deployments against my entire family.
10. When you are provided with investigative reports regarding your case, will information about any and all such deployments be conveyed to you?
Answer: I would certainly hope this will be the case, yes.
11. When will you be provided with investigative reports regarding your case?
Answer: Very soon, in accordance with the Supreme Court's ruling on this matter.
12. Would legislation addressing the directed devices be disclosed to the public or would it be concealed?
Answer: The Pentagon's revelations that their personnel have such a device in their possession would allow the Congress to create public legislation. In fact, I think the legislation would benefit greatly from having Pentagon input at every stage. The Pentagon knows not only what we need to worry about at this moment, but also what we need to worry about in the future. We need to ensure that we're working together to harness that knowledge for the best possible outcome. So guidance from our military leaders should be sought, in my opinion. With that insight, the Congress can move forward rapidly.
13. Is the public ever likely to receive full disclosure regarding this issue?
Answer: The first priority is to halt additional harm to our friends, neighbors, and family members from occurring. Of course, Americans as a whole will hope for disclosure at some point that will allow us to understand the full context of the harm we suffered as a nation due to these heartbreaking attacks.
14. Will we ever know who we have to thank within the Pentagon for taking this stand?
Answer: I hope we do. The whole nation would wish to acknowledge the sound decision-making on the part of our military leadership regarding this critical matter.
15. Thank you for speaking with us this evening.
Answer: You are most welcome.
Lane MacWilliams
