1. Your stalker recently conveyed to you that a defamatory video co-opting your likeness was being distributed at FBI direction on the "dark web."
Answer: Yes, he did.
2. What are your thoughts about an FBI that would undertake this kind of defamation while drawing pay from the national treasury in the name of federal law enforcement and the national security interest?
Answer: I believe that our nation's respect for the truth is necessary for our democracy to endure. If far right segments of the FBI are acting in accordance with the directives of a foreign adversary, we need to fully understand the nature of that compromise. How can we best address an assault on the Constitution by the very agency that has vowed to defend and protect it? Perhaps through a commission selected to investigate the crimes committed by far right segments of the agency in their entirety.
3. Does the FBI appear to be using one or more AI-generated videos as a means of attempting to silence you as a whistleblower of FBI malfeasance?
Answer: Absolutely. Yes. The agency appears to be saying, "Do what we instruct you to do, or we will defame you as a predator and a reprobate online, and your life will never be the same."
4. Is this video, which the FBI has utilized to defame you for years, something you have actually seen?
Answer: No, I have never had access to it in any way, shape or form.
5. Yet, you know it exists.
Answer: I have been informed by others that it does.
6. You have also been informed by others that the FBI has distributed surveillance video of you and your family members in private moments inside your own home.
Answer: Yes, I have.
7. Your thoughts?
Answer: This surely meets the definition of a dystopia. I think the American electorate needs to consider whether we are comfortable living in a surveillance state, paid for by our tax dollars, in which the FBI and affiliated agencies have assumed totalitarian control over the social, financial, and political future of the nation. That means no further access to self-determination by the American voter. No free speech. No freedom of assembly. No freedom of the press.
8. And doesn't it also mean that our fundamental human rights are abrogated as well?
Answer: It does, yes. Because defamation is, as I have said before, a prelude, accompaniment and postlude to financial and physical harms.
9. You believe that FBI affiliates have been committing violent crimes against the law-abiding American public through the implementation of the FBI's "disposition matrix."
Answer: I think many others have established that these crimes are being committed. But the American electorate as a whole does not know about them. And that's a tremendous problem for our democracy.
10. Why?
Answer: Because the American public is going to have immense difficulty defending itself from covert aggression being perpetrated by a federal law enforcement agency. The means, motive, and manifestation of these harms remains, for the vast majority of people, entirely unknown.
11. Is it easier for Americans to believe that whistleblowers are delusional than that our entire democracy has been placed at risk by the corruption of programs within the FBI and affiliated agencies?
Answer: It's always easier for society to believe that those who are experiencing a violation of their civil liberties and human rights somehow deserve it. But the democracy requires more of us.
And the secret to the freedom of mankind resides within the realization that if we fail to stand up for the rights of others, we forfeit our own.
12. There's no "greater good" within totalitarianism. This is your point.
Answer: That's right. There's no end that justifies the means of totalitarianism. Freedom for a few does not result from enslavement for many. History makes this quite clear.
Democracy is built on principle, honor, and respect for our fellow citizens. These gifts are not an accident. They are enshrined within our founding documents as a nation.
13. In other words, if our neighbor isn't free, we're not really free either.
Answer: That's correct. Democracy requires that we care about one another's right to self-determination.
14. And it also requires that we care about the truth.
Answer: Yes. None of us can be free without access to the truth. This would be my one addition to the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Citizens deserve access to the truth -- even and especially when that truth is difficult to accept, as in the fact that far right segments of the FBI are knowingly perpetrating falsified law enforcement reporting against law-abiding American citizens.
That means that the far right's crimes against the American electorate need to be exposed in their entirety.
15. How can defamation best be opposed?
Answer: By the insistence of good people in speaking the truth of their character, their integrity, and their actions.
16. Victims of the far right's defamation cannot be silent.
Answer: No. They need to express themselves with great conviction and indefatigability.
17. What happens when that determined pursuit of the truth places a law-abiding "target of interest" in harm's way?
Answer: Courage is called for. Courage for our families. Courage for our neighbors. Courage for our country.
18. You have not found the limits of your courage, despite the predations of far right segments of the FBI against you and your family members.
Answer: No.
19. Txx Lxxxx has allegedly threatened your son with a DEW assault designed to cause brain damage.
Answer: Txx Lxxxx is answerable to me for the crimes he has already committed against my family. I don't recommend that he compound his problems by perpetrating more.
20. You would like to convey to individuals on the far right within the FBI that we are all accountable for our actions.
Answer: This is not merely my opinion, but rather a centerpiece of a free and just society.
21. Can our democracy be rescued through an insistence on that accountability from the FBI?
Answer: We're in the process of finding out. Those of us who love this country will not stop asking that question until we become part of a reassuring answer.
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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