Lane von Herzen: Safety Concern

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.

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Safety Concern

A scan of the document below was sent today to the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice in care of the OIP as part of an email regarding the following: Additional Private Sector Customers of xxxxxxxxx Corporation as Coerced FBI Informants. This email, with one attachment of a single page, was sent to the OIG Hotline from lanemacwilliams@gmail.com at 9:56 p.m. Pacific time on August 16, 2022, with an addition email sent to selected recipients within the OIP at 9:58 p.m. Pacific time. Copies of both emails were forwarded to lanemacwilliams@gmail.com and lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com.

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August 16, 2022

To the Office of the Inspector General Hotline, U.S. DOJ:

I am informed that the FBI has contacted two additional private sector customers of the company for which my husband is President, xxxxxxxxx Corporation. He is meeting with these representatives for dinner this evening, after having hosted them on site today.

I do not know the names of the individuals involved, nor the companies for which they work, as this is confidential information. xxxxxxxxx Corporation is a startup, and the courting of early customers is not information that is publicly available.

Given the FBI's evident focus on attempting to discredit us as whistleblowers of the agency's engagement in falsified law enforcement reporting for anti-democratic objectives, I am concerned for our safety.

The FBI's tactics in coercing denunciations in the form of false witness statements appear to grant them near-totalitarian control of "targets of interest."

It is extremely challenging to keep pace with the breadth and volume of the FBI's lies concerning law-abiding Americans who have been wrongfully placed on this list.

While I am by nature and inclination an independent person, I must ask again for the OIG Hotline's protection regarding the coerced "informants" mentioned above.

I deeply appreciate your intervention on behalf of my husband and myself.

Most sincerely,