1. What did Txx Lxxxx business card look like on the evening of January 22, 2020, when he violated the Hatch Act?
Answer: It looked like this:
2. You saved his professional card?
Answer: I did.
3. May I ask why?
Answer: I had asked Mr. Lxxxx for his help with a stalking situation in good faith. So, naively, I thought he might be able to resolve the predatory crimes of my stalker.
4. You didn't know at that time that you had already been placed by your stalker onto the FBI's unconstitutional "target of interest" list?
Answer: I did not.
5. So, you didn't realize that any dialogue with Mr. Lxxxx was highly likely to be misreported.
Answer: I did not.
6. And you did not realize that, for you and your husband to follow Mr. Lxxxx' advice by initiating a dialogue with the Oakland FBI Office the following month, you were both walking into the proverbial lions' den?
Answer: Absolutely not.
7. You were trying -- as a conscientious, law-abiding, and engaged citizen -- to let a federal law enforcement authority know about your concerns regarding your stalker's apparent violations of the law.
Answer: Yes, I was.
8. What do you think happened to any investigation of your stalker?
Answer: I believe it was entirely suppressed.
9. Do you believe others may have been harmed as a result of the FBI's suppression of that investigation?
Answer: This is not the appropriate forum for that conjecture. I will simply say that it is incumbent upon the FBI to take reports from the public seriously and to follow up on them with all appropriate diligence and engagement.
10. Can the American public count on the FBI to act in a conscientious and law-abiding capacity as a federal law enforcement agency?
Answer: The FBI has made a recent attempt to redefine itself as a national security agency, which means it views itself as unbound by the Constitution as it engages in a quest for a "greater good."
11. That greater good is ostensibly the public safety, but you believe that stated objective disguises the FBI's bid for autocracy.
Answer: Yes. The Counterintelligence Division of the FBI, which I understand constitutes slightly more than half of the agency, appears to be actively engaged in knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting for anti-democratic objectives.
12. If their motives were actually noble, why would they have to lie?
Answer: My question exactly. And if their motives were noble, why would they be failing to fulfill the Freedom of Information Act requests of those they are unlawfully surveilling?
13. You came across an April 20, 2021 letter from the FBI yesterday, in which the FBI tells you that they have no information whatsoever that is responsive to your FOIA request. May we see it?
Answer: Yes. Here's what that letter looks like:
Answer: Dear Ms. MacWilliams, This is in response to your Freedom of Information/Privacy Acts (FOIPA) request. Based on the information you provided, we conducted a search of the places reasonably expected to have records. However, we were unable to identify records responsive to your request. Therefore, your request is being closed.
15. In this communication, the FBI stated it had no information about your whatsoever. A short while later, however, you received a letter stating that there was so much information within the FBI's files, it would take the agency approximately four and a half years to fulfill your request.
Answer: That is correct.
16. And when the ODNI intervened to ensure that your request be fulfilled promptly, you were provided with 55 pages that were almost completely redacted.
Answer: Yes, and the exemptions cited by the FBI were non-applicable. So, it seems quite clear to me that the agency is hiding substantive malfeasance.
17. You received no photos or film as part of that heavily redacted report.
Answer: None. There wasn't even a mention of any photos or film.
18. And yet, you have been informed that falsified photos and film, alongside falsified witness statements, have been broadly distributed nationally through the FBI's use of federal information-sharing programs HSIN, N-DEx, and/or LEEP.
Answer: Yes. The agency has exercised its unlawful prerogative to slander and defame me nationwide and no doubt beyond, yet it has failed to disclose to me the falsehoods it is asserting.
19. How many law-abiding Americans are currently being unconstitutionally surveilled and harmed through the FBI's "target of interest" program?
Answer: Over three million. Ultimately, it's necessary to understand that totalitarian systems seek to surveil everyone.
20. You have been told that FBI agent Txx Lxxxx initiated an entirely unwarranted espionage investigation against your family. Why would he have committed that crime?
Answer: There are concerning issues involving my stalker's reported involvement in Russian-affiliated organized crime in this particular case. If an individual like this exerts control over agents like Txx Lxxxx -- and beyond this, quite a few employees of the FBI -- this becomes a matter of corruption within the agency that has larger implications for our national security.
But aside from this broader concern, the "target of interest" program needs to show "productivity" in ever-increasing numbers in order to justify year-over-year increases in Congressional budget appropriations for the FBI.
That means that law-abiding Americans are being accused of "espionage" and "terrorism" by corrupt FBI personnel who are knowingly aggregating falsified "evidence" of their "targets'" alleged "guilt."
All totalitarian systems engage in scapegoating of innocent segments of the population. We've seen these crimes before throughout human history.
If they're left unchecked, human atrocities are the result.
21. In this case, can the FBI's knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting be publicly exposed in order to halt the process?
Answer: This is exactly what I'm trying to do. Our democracy depends on the exposure of the far right's bid for autocracy through falsified law enforcement reporting. Our civil liberties and human rights can only be preserved if the truth of this matter is revealed to the American electorate.
22. And you believe this is possible.
Answer: Of course I do. Efforts which require this much courage and mettle and determination and fortitude are predicated on the faith that they can succeed.
23. Yet, it's not possible to succeed alone.
Answer: No, it's not. That's why I am continuing to reach out to the OIG Hotline, the ODNI leadership, and President Biden for their support.
24. You believe these individuals are as committed to our democracy as you are.
Answer: I know they are. It is their presence that gives us a chance to defend our democracy from those currently making a bid for autocratic control over the American electorate.
25. You still believe that your FOIA request ought to be fulfilled in its entirety and without redaction.
Answer: I believe that it must be fulfilled in its entirety and without redaction in order for the "insider threat" represented by far right FBI personnel to be illuminated.
26. Do you hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct?
Answer: I do.
Lane MacWilliams
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The FBI is a deeply divided agency. There are many FBI employees who view their vows to the Constitution with the utmost seriousness and honor, and who strive to defend the fundamentals of our democracy with courage, fortitude and commitment. The fact that some segments of the FBI appear to have embraced a lawless course is not a justification to assail the FBI in general. As President Joseph R. Biden has so rightly expressed, violence is never justified in any circumstance. The rule of law must always be honored and upheld. It is our shared determination to preserve the civil liberties and human rights of all Americans that renders the United States a democracy. We must never abandon this promise. All of our most cherished freedoms depend upon it.
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