Lane von Herzen: My Intention to Formally Verify All Documentation

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.

Monday, July 25, 2022

My Intention to Formally Verify All Documentation

July 25, 2022

To the OIG Hotline and the ODNI:

My stalker has conveyed to me that the written materials responsive to my FOIA request have been altered by those within the FBI who have allegedly intercepted materials originating from the ODNI.

Apparently, many of those "informants" providing knowingly falsified witness statements to the FBI for pay have been deleted from responsive pages. Remaining material, so I am told, has been reshaped and re-edited in an attempt to discredit me as a FOIA requester and an honorable, law-abiding American citizen.

I am not predisposed to accept shame that is not my own.

I am not reluctant to disclose, as I have done before, that I have had one lifetime intimate partner, my beloved husband of 32 years. I have never taken recreational drugs. Nor have I ever knowingly engaged in unlawful activity of any kind.

The FBI has attempted to replace materials responsive to my FOIA request in the past. I am told that this agency asked Attorney John Bradley to suggest that I sign a special release allowing him to accept materials from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office on my behalf, with the express intention of replacing information implicating the FBI and its affiliates of malfeasance. I did not sign any such permission, needless to say.

Beyond this, it is my understanding that Private Investigator Ted Piggins was instructed by the FBI to gain my permission to accept San Mateo County Sheriff's Office materials on my behalf with the same intention of replacing implicating falsifications. Again, I did not grant permission to Mr. Piggins to accept material on my behalf in any context.

So, for the FBI to now appear to be breaking the law in an attempt to replace materials responsive to my FOIA request with those that absolve many criminal agents and their paid informants of culpability -- is consistent.

Nonetheless, I do not believe such attempts can be ignored or excused. Nor do I believe that the FBI personnel and FBI affiliates who have knowingly engaged in falsified law enforcement reporting for pay should be able to avoid responsibility for their actions in this matter.

All within the FBI need to understand that, as soon as I receive materials responsive to my FOIA request from the ODNI, I will be seeking to verify that any and all pages, photos, and video are aligned with ODNI and OIG Hotline records, and complete in their conveyance to me.

Thank you for allowing me to register this concern.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams