To the Office of the Inspector General Hotline, U.S. DOJ:
When I was a child, my mother, whose faith was a shining mountain, would very occasionally pronounce, “One must not forget that there is evil in the world. It does exist.”
I had no idea what she was talking about. And, more to the point, I hoped she was wrong.
I spent most of my life harboring vague distrust toward anyone who used the word “evil,” except perhaps in a remote context, in discussing the aggressors of the World Wars, the originators of the Holocaust, or the dictators of totalitarian regimes.
And I was mistaken.
My mother was right. And yes, I had a mother who was always right, so I should have known.
But I think we can readily see that slander and defamation of the sort currently being perpetrated by certain segments of the FBI are knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to pay a psychiatrist and psychologist to violate their professional ethics in maligning the state of mind of someone they do not know, a person who is not their patient, an individual who stands as a whistleblower of FBI corruption – is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to film a husband and wife sharing private intimacy and then post such material online – is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to disseminate fake films suggesting that law-abiding citizens of the United States have harmed the vulnerable – is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to threaten people’s lives and livelihoods unless they engage in falsified witness statements dictated by their FBI handlers – is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to pay the housecleaners of a “target” to collect strands of her hair, so that DNA “evidence” can be falsely claimed as being found at fictitious “crime scenes”—is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to utilize edited and misattributed audio, phone calls with spoofed caller IDs, AI-generated video, fake social media, email and text messaging accounts, and appropriated Apple IDs to further false claims of “espionage,” and/or “terrorism,” as being perpetrated by law-abiding American citizens – is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to engage in physical predation toward law-abiding American citizens for anti-democratic objectives – is knowingly wrong.
For the FBI to dismantle the Freedom of Information Act – without the knowledge of the public, the Congress, the Department of Justice, or the President – is knowingly wrong.
Taken together, these acts begin to fill out a more comprehensive picture of the harassment and harms in which the FBI has been engaging under the pretext of “national security concerns.”
That picture is one in which far right infiltration of the FBI has allowed predation of “targets of interest,” many of whom are law-abiding American citizens, in virtually every area of their lives. These harms appear to be compounded by defamatory claims that sufferers of this harassment are “delusional” when they complain about their plight.
Unfortunately, there are sufficient voyeuristic and sadistic elements at play within the “target of interest” program that we can recognize a Nazi-like or Stasi-like culture, which appears to celebrate diminishment and injury in others.
As an institutional paradigm, the “target of interest” protocol seems to reflect a psychopathic mindset, which endeavors to exert total psychological and economic control of a “target” through perpetrating harm.
The means used to wield that control are consistently coercive.
And, when corrupt FBI agents falsely invoke the Patriot Act or the Espionage Act in the name of “national security,” alongside compensation tendered through Infragard, it appears that the independence of the judiciary can be compromised, Congressional advocacy can be obstructed, physicians can violate their oaths, attorneys can breach their obligations, loyal Americans can denounce loyal Americans, and neighbors can prey upon one another with impunity.
Yet, a house divided will not stand.
And the FBI’s current ethos of “disrupt, discredit, and divide” represents the most substantive and severe threat to our democracy since King George III.
What are the vulnerabilities within our society that have allowed this incipient totalitarian threat to emerge?
Russia has, from the mid-1990’s onward, cultivated the “angry young men” of the far right as integral to the human trafficking apparatus of organized crime within the United States. There are well-documented links between the heads of far-right “militias” and human trafficking “leaders” within our country.
When individuals, including law enforcement officers, engage in human trafficking as customers, it appears that they are routinely filmed and subsequently “owned” by far right-affiliated organized crime interests.
The American public has had difficulty perceiving the sources and intent of disinformation, whether through Fox News, One America News, social media, or the political apparatus of the far right.
Popular American culture has idealized financial success over and above the success of character and integrity, leading FBI “informants” to believe that compensation tendered in return for falsified FBI witness statements constitutes a justifiable “good.”
There has been a lack of accountability for federal and local law enforcement officials who engage in corrupted reporting.
There has been a lack of accountability for FBI recruits and FBI informants, who have been protected from exposure of their predations toward law-abiding “targets,” primarily through secrecy agreements that subvert the Constitution.
The national security agencies have knowingly undertaken a program of mass surveillance of the American public, consistently concealing this fact from Congress, the press, and all who have questioned the focus of its capabilities.
Certain segments of the FBI and other three-letter agencies have engaged in the deployment, without oversight, of directed energy devices and HAARP against law-abiding members of the American public.
The FBI has exploited the lack of public awareness of AI technologies in paying contractors for fake films co-opting the likeness of “targets” to depict them in the perpetration of crimes that never took place. Some of these fictitious crimes correspond to far right conspiracy theory, to which a purported 41 million Americans subscribe, according to a recent article in the New York Times.
The FBI appears to wield its “disposition matrix,” primarily though not exclusively through contractors and paid affiliates, against law-abiding members of the United States who refuse to comply with the agency’s unlawful and unconstitutional demands.
Certain segments of the FBI appear well-practiced in the unlawful exploitation of secrecy loopholes within the Espionage Act and the Patriot Act.
The major newspapers within the United States maintain relationships with the national security agencies, allowing these agencies to effectively suppress public awareness of the “insider threat” currently represented by the FBI from all but the most alert members of the American public – well less than 1%. Given that, from the FBI’s perspective, it will always be in the “national security interest” for journalists not to write about FBI corruption, one can immediately perceive the dangers present in this concealed censorship.
There have been notable media failures in characterizing the FBI’s formal acquisition of Pegasus software in 2019 (its informal and extensive use pre-dates 2019) for the express purpose of training its contractors in its use, only for the agency to buy back the information unlawfully collected through unconstitutional surveillance of the American public.
The FBI’s utilization of Infragard as a primary means of extending bribes to individual members of the public, private and public companies, and public utilities constitutes a significant and concealed vector of corruption, in which the agency has drawn from the national treasury to subvert democratic norms.
The FBI has engaged in a clandestine dismantling of the Freedom of Information Act through unlawful FOIA delays, unlawful FOIA redactions, and unlawful FOIA fulfillments, which simply provide blank reports to “targets of interest.”
What would unmake this “insider threat” overnight?
The establishment by President Biden of a Freedom of Information Act Office that stands entirely independent of the auspices of the FBI, the CIA, the DHS, the NSA, and every national security agency.
This Office should be staffed by civilians with no ties to the national security agencies or the military.
This Office should be prohibited from engaging in any dialogue with the FBI, Infragard, other three letter agencies, or the U.S. military. Its primary goal should be to open all the books of the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative and the FBI’s affiliated “target of interest” program.
Given the apparently egregious extent of systemic falsifications within the “target of interest” program, witness statements of informants should be disclosed to "targets."
A public repository of corrupt reporting and harassment perpetrated through the NSARI and the “target of interest” program should be established, while maintaining appropriate confidentiality, so that the public can be educated about the abuses that have transpired and the threat they have posed to the foundations of our democracy.
FOIA Offices internal to the national security agencies should ultimately be closed, with their mandate being served by civilian FOIA offices. FOIA Offices within the FBI and other agencies have failed to uphold their responsibilities to the American people and to the Constitution. This abdication of central mission must be recognized.
Infragard should be immediately dismantled, and its budget frozen. No payments for DEW deployment mean many fewer victims of long-term harm being perpetrated by affiliates of the FBI.
The national security agencies, their contractors and affiliates, branches of the U.S. military, and military contractors should be immediately prohibited from participating in any and all campaign financing participation for members of Congress.
FBI personnel should be actively prosecuted for violations of the Hatch Act.
The President, as our Commander in Chief, should consider appointing an independent investigative committee to address programmatic corruption within the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative and the FBI’s affiliated “target of interest” program. The infiltration of the national security agencies, and, indeed, of certain segments of the military by the far right should be fully illuminated by such an investigation.
The privacy of law-abiding U.S. citizens should be re-confirmed as a Constitutional right and re-established as foundational to the freedoms of law-abiding American citizens. Violations of that privacy by the FBI and others should be documented and litigated, and further violations should be disallowed.
The use of DEWs should be outlawed as assault with a deadly weapon. Penalties for violations of prohibited use should be severe. The manufacturers of DEWs should be shut down, and DEWs in distribution should be collected and dismantled. NATO and the United Nations should agree that use of DEWs constitutes crimes against humanity.
All HAARP facilities should be shut down. There are too many individuals within the military, both domestic and international, active and retired, who possess tasking capability for HAARP-type facilities. The lack of traceability of this weapon’s deployment means that it is certain to be misused. Such capability will always serve the interests of autocracy, never democracy. The international community should agree to disable and dismantle all HAARP facilities, save those designed to detect where HAARP may be deployed by rogue states – in which case such facilities should be immediately disabled.
The Pentagon should be prevented from investing in AI drone attack programs, perhaps with the single exception of programs designed to eliminate attack drones themselves. In the future, if democracy is to survive, American skies must be kept clear for citizens who love free speech, free assembly, freedom of the press, and all the freedoms formalized within our Constitution.
Cross-communication structures between the national security agencies and the military must be re-examined. The current communications paradigm allows ample margin for misconduct on the part of those with totalitarian aims, who would seek to evade restrictions imposed by our Constitution’s requirement of civilian control of the military.
The culture of the FBI, a quasi-military organization, which seems to demonstrate both misogynistic and racist ideologies, needs to be examined. It is possible that, after an independent commission studies the corruption of the NSARI and the FBI’s affiliated “target of interest” program, a recommendation may be made that the agency is too compromised to continue in its current form.
The United States requires a national law enforcement agency, but one which is fully transparent and accountable to the American people, and one which scrupulously adheres to the truth.
Civilian control of the military must be, in every measure, re-established. We have a remarkably wise Commander-in-Chief, with exceptional judgment and insight. The American people voted for President Joseph R. Biden to lead us. Not Christopher Wray. President Biden’s authority as Commander-in-Chief must be upheld, just as our Constitution must be upheld. Our democracy depends upon this fundamental
preservation of chain of command as originating in the Executive branch of U.S. government.
And now, I hope you’ll bear with me, because I need to say a few words about President Biden.
It is to our collective diminishment that the international community comprehends the great hope that President Biden represents to democracies all over the world, while many Americans have not yet perceived this truth in full.
The vast majority of American presidents would not have the courage and integrity to address the “insider threat” that the FBI has come to represent to our nation. Prior presidents have either failed to perceive the emerging risks or they have not wanted to wrestle the FBI leadership to a public accounting of this agency’s crimes against law-abiding American citizens.
What makes President Biden the leader for our time? He possesses both the intelligence and the strength of character to illuminate the truth of our predicament for the American public, whose freedoms and whose children’s freedoms are now, unbeknownst to them, imperiled.
This venerable and courageous President has not only perceived the extent of this insider threat, he has also conceived of a plan with which to confront it.
That takes insight, bravery, wisdom, determination, faith, judgment and fortitude – and all of these in abundant quantities.
The qualities that make our President so rare cannot be replaced by another – and I cannot emphasize this enough. Strength of character and integrity of soul are among the rarest elements on the planet. And on such intangibles, the futures of all of us depend.
Whenever I hear conjecture about President Biden’s age regarding his second term, I feel like giving the public an impassioned lecture on this point.
Leaders like President Biden are not replaceable.
I don’t care whether President Biden tells me he is celebrating his one thousandth birthday.
He is the leader to guide us forward through these shoals. He is the Commander in Chief to help Americans understand how certain segments of the national security agencies have gone astray. He is the one person with the mettle and the fortitude and the faith to return true Constitutional democracy to the American public.
Good people of the OIG Hotline, perhaps one person out of one million will not succumb to the coercion of the FBI through the threats, bribes and harms this agency is currently wielding. Perhaps one out of ten million.
The vast majority of people simply put their heads down and hope someone else will stand on the principles they themselves are unwilling, in the final measure, to risk their comforts for.
Such is the chronicle of a democracy’s end.
President Biden is not willing to let that happen.
President Biden is that one person in ten million who cares for this country more than he cares for his own short-term personal interests.
He is rare, courageous, astute, determined, irreplaceable. A leader for our time. A leader for all time.
I hope I might have the chance to articulate this to the American people – along with any Congresspersons who are unclear on the truth.
I say with respectful insistence – they need to hear it.
Most sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams
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