1. You believe that the United States needs a strong military, as well as advanced intelligence capabilities.
Answer: We absolutely do. The key is to ensure that our very considerable capabilities are pointed in the right direction through civilian leadership in the form of our highly qualified Commander in Chief Joseph R. Biden and his administration.
What we don't want is a couple of major adversarial challenges internationally -- which are present in today's geopolitical landscape -- exacerbated by an insider threat in which a portion of our agencies are compromised by the extreme right.
Segments of our military-industrial-intelligence complex should never be assailing law-abiding American citizens for anti-democratic objectives, for example.
2. You are referring to the wayward Phoenix Program.
Answer: I am referring to the wayward Phoenix Program, yes.
3. Should the FBI and the CIA have the capability of killing law-abiding American citizens, whether on U.S. soil or anywhere else in the world?
Answer: It should never happen. And we don't want the law-abiding citizens of other countries to be suffering from such predation either.
4. You are using the adjective "law-abiding," but doesn't the problem of falsified law enforcement reporting mean that anyone can be mischaracterized as a "criminal" in order to justify their harm?
Answer: It does, yes. And that's why the FBI and the CIA should not be given dispensation to take human life at all. These agencies have justified killing under the pretext of "making the world a safer place," but their knowing abuses are at this point all too clear.
5. You have recently referred to the fact that there are quotas connected to the "target of interest" program and the Phoenix Program as well.
Answer: There are, and we truly need to pause over programs that measure "productivity" in terms of the taking of human life. These are terrible distortions that correspond to the perpetration of human atrocities on on massive scale.
6. Has Congress been unaware of these crimes?
Answer: It has been unaware, yes. It's not that Congress has failed to ask the proper questions of the three-letter agencies. It's that the answers to those questions of the part of the three-letter agencies have constituted conscious lies.
For reference, in the 1980's, Congress supported billions of American tax dollars devoted through the CIA to Guatemala for "democracy initiatives." We now know that the CIA's initiatives in Guatemala were anything but democratic. CIA funding was supporting the training of police and military squads that killed several hundred thousand peaceable civilians gratuitously.
The American people would never have supported these crimes if they had understood what was occurring.
Anyone who wants to learn more about this should read about the experience of American Catholic nun Dianna Ortiz, who describes being kidnapped and tortured in Guatemala in 1989 in her autobiographical work, The Blindfold's Eyes.
But to understand this phenomenon in a larger context, it would be illuminating for people to turn to The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins.
7. Doesn't it seem to you that the actions of Americans in assailing other Americans might be fundamentally driven by a foreign adversary?
Answer: Decidedly so. And that's why the question of the far right's alliance with Russian interests needs to be fully characterized.
8. You have stated that the far right is closely aligned with criminal interests within the United States involving human trafficking and drug trafficking.
Answer: Russian-affiliated organized crime interests, yes.
9. But how does this translate to the compromise of segments of our local and federal law enforcement agencies?
Answer: Any law enforcement officer who engages in human trafficking at any level can be immediately "captured" by far right criminal interests. Some police forces ritualize their "access" to these activities as a "rite of passage." An example of this is described in a federal lawsuit filed in 2022 by former Oroville police officer Robert Raiter: https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/former-oroville-police-officer-files-federal-lawsuit-claiming-sexual-harassment-illegal-misconduct/article_30882c8a-ac8c-11ec-9f6a-7b60a475f4f6.html
The compromise of FBI officials can work in exactly the same way.
Again, this approach can be presented as a rite of passage, as in "Congratulations on your promotion. As part of the perquisites of your new job, you're invited to a special party."
Then people can be documented on film -- and subsequently controlled through that leverage.
These are Russian techniques of "kompromat" and they can be used against anyone, obviously, not merely law enforcement officers.
10. Does the "epidemiological map" you have referred to within the FBI reflect these same techniques in compromising segments of our primary federal law enforcement agency?
Answer: It does. When a high ranking member of Russian-affiliated organized crime within the United States is sharing a genetically identical HIV virus with dozens of FBI agents, one needs to pause for a moment to consider how that happened.
11. But separate and apart from how it happened, what are the implications of an FBI agent like Tom Lyons being under the control of someone like Brandan Pesa?
Answer: The implications are that we have suffered a compromise to our national security.
Tom Lyons may be ostensibly "administrating" the FBI's unconstitutional "target of interest" program in the name of public "safety."
But in truth, the "target of interest" program and Phoenix are being wielded against the law-abiding American public for anti-democratic objectives.
12. How can this mess of prevarication and projection be undone?
Answer: Again, we need to illuminate one case consisting of a law-abiding American citizen who has been wrongfully accused. That is the starting point.
13. Are you that law-abiding American citizen?
Answer: I believe that I am.
14. Do you hereby certify that the foregoing is true and correct?
Answer: I do.
Lane MacWilliams
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