Lane von Herzen: Requesting the Support of the OIG Hotline in Forwarding My FOIA Request to the ODNI

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 11, 2022

Requesting the Support of the OIG Hotline in Forwarding My FOIA Request to the ODNI

The above material was sent to the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice in care of the OIP regarding my submission of a Freedom of Information Act Request to the ODNI. This communication, with an eight-page attachment, was sent to the OIG H from lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com at 12:07 pm Pacific time, and to selected recipients within the OIP at 12:10 pm Pacific time, with copies forwarded to lanemacwilliams@gmail.com and lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com. These communications contained the above documents, in addition to the FBI FOIA Office's email stating that it intended to fulfill my FOIA Request #1496758-000 in approximately four and one-half years' time.

In addition, this material was sent to Director Haines of the ODNI and the Director of the Information Management Office of the ODNI via FedEx for delivery on July 12, 2022, with tracking information included on the receipt below:

The content above was also emailed to the OIG Hotline in care of the OIP, as well as to selected recipients within the OIP, from ascend314159@proton.me at 7:38 pm Pacific time.