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.




Saturday, September 30, 2023

New Communication for OIG Hotline Re: Safety Concern

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that there is a new communication for your Office in my email inbox at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwillimas7417@gmail.com, bearing a date/time stamp of today, September 30, 2023 at 5:29 PM Pacific time.

The subject heading of this communication begins with the words "ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Threats of Ongoing Harms Perpetrated Toward ..."

Please access this communication at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

With great appreciation for your presence at this time.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams


Updated Documentation of Lane MacWilliams' Wifi Access, September 30, 2023

 



Time Sensitive Communication for OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that an email to your attention, with six  JPEG attachments capturing texted communications to my son Duncan MacWilliams, is now available within my email lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with a date/time stamp of today, September 30, 2023 at 1:58 PM Pacific time.  Copies of this email have been sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com

The subject heading of this communication reads as follows:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Texted Communications to Duncan MacWilliams, 9/30/2023.

Please access this communication at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

With deep appreciation for your presence at this time.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams






 

Friday, September 29, 2023

New Jurat-Notarized Affidavit for OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that a new Jurat-notarized affidavit is now available for your Office within my email lanemacwilliams@gmail, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com, lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, bearing a date/time stamp of today, September 29, 2023 at 8:03 PM Pacific time.

The subject heading of this communication is as follows:  ATTN: OIG Hotline Re:  New Jurat-notarized Affidavit for Your Office.

Please access this material at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

In abiding gratitude,




Lane MacWilliams

Communications with Microsoft Pertaining to Closure of Account

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that, after I marked my Microsoft account for closure today, September 29, 2023, the company informed me that my account will remain open for another 60 days at Microsoft's sole discretion, during which time I can change my mind.

It's not particularly clear to me whether Microsoft is playing a game with consumers in stating in an email sent on September 11, 2023 that its customers may avoid its new Terms of Use (and unfavorable new Privacy Policy) by closing accounts prior to September 30, 2023, while knowing that consumer accounts will remain technically open, by the choice of Microsoft alone, for an additional 60 days.

This does not, on the face of it, appear to represent good faith engagement between Microsoft and its consumers.

From Microsoft's September 11, 2023 email:



Here is Microsoft's surprising statement that my Microsoft account affiliated with lanemacwilliams@gmail.com will be closed on 11/28/2023.


The following page confirms that I have made no purchases of Microsoft products within the past 3 months:  




Has Microsoft effectively swept up everyone who has ever used a Microsoft product in this gambit involving a new Privacy Policy and new Terms of Use that are remarkably unfavorable to consumers' rights?

Due to what appears to be the company's intentional obfuscation of this matter, I sent the following email to Microsoft a few minutes ago, and submitted its content through Microsoft's online portal as well.  Hopefully, this will allow the OIG Hotline to gather all desired information from Microsoft over the next 60 days, after which all of my information should be deleted by this company.

Most sincerely,






Lane MacWilliams

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Sent to:  msa@communication.microsoft.com. From: lanemacwilliams@gmail.com. Date:  September 29, 2023 at 3:04 PM

Re:  Updates to our terms of use

To the management of Microsoft:

Out of a desire to avoid Microsoft's new Terms of Use and updated Privacy Policy, I closed my Microsoft account today, September 28, 2023, affiliated with lanemacwilliams@gmail.com.

Although Microsoft has stated that my account is now "Marked for Closure" and will be technically closed on 11/28/2023, I trust that all of my information will be kept private during the interim, in accordance with this email request, with one single exception.

I do grant peermission for the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice to pursue any inquiries with Microsoft that they may wish to advance regarding my Microsoft account or purchases.

After the OIG Hotline has concluded all inquiries with Microsoft concerning my account, and ensuring that the OIG Hotline has confirmed in writing with Microsoft that all of their investigative needs for data and information are complete, Microsoft may delete all information connected to my name and/or identity in a data deletion request under the California Privacy Act.

Thank you for your cooperation in this important matter.

Lane MacWilliams
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Current Communication for the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that there is a new communication for your Office's attention within my email inbox at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, with a date/time stamp of today, September 29, 2023 at 1:50 PM Pacific time.

The subject heading of this email begins with the following words:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: New and Ongoing Threats to the MacWilliams' Family.

Please access this communication at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

Thank you very kindly for your presence at this time.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams

Documentation of Lane MacWilliams' Wifi Access, September 29, 2023

OIG Hotline, I will be posting updates regarding my online access to this space on my blog today with the specific intent of preventing further falsified law enforcement reporting by the FBI and its affiliates.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams










New Communication for OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please be apprised that there is a new communication for your Office's attention within my email inbox at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, with a date/time stamp of today, September 29, 2023 at 8:29 AM Pacific time.

The subject heading of this email begins with the following words:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: General Affidavit.

Please access this communication at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

Thank you very kindly for your presence at this time.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Suspicious Notification from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office

OIG Hotline, please be aware that my husband sent me a text notification of a message he received from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office with a portion of the content included in his message as follows:


What is unusual about this communication from the SMC Sheriff's Department?  

Several things:  

1.  Portola Valley tends not to experience this type of crime, as there are license plate cameras that document all vehicles entering and leaving the town.

2.  There is no description of the 3-4 persons of interest in the material forwarded to me.  Basic law enforcement protocol would attempt to define age, gender, clothing -- any identifying factors to assist neighbors in responding to such a threat.

3. I myself am registered for San Mateo County Emergency alerts.  Yet when I looked for this notification in my email inbox, the following screenshot is what I found:


The entire substance of this emergency communication consists of the following truncated line:

SMC Alert:  Residents in Portola Valley and the Town of Woodside, please be on the lookout for a black sedan with 3-4 subjects.  Sheriff's Deputies are investiga...

I have never before received an incomplete San Mateo County Sheriff's Office communication of this kind.  There is no link included to a more detailed alert notification, even though this is standard practice.

What is my sense about this "alert'?

I would be interested in assessing the possibility that the SMC Sheriff's Department knows exactly who these "subjects" are.  Note that they are not "suspects."  Nor are they "persons of interest."  They are simply 3-4 people in a black sedan.  They are "subjects," which tells us nothing.

It is entirely possible that these burglaries occurred, especially given that FBI monitoring through NSO software and other means let law enforcement know exactly who is at home at what time, what their schedule is, when they will return, etc.

The existence of these burglaries must not be viewed as a foregone conclusion, however, 

The law enforcement reporting about these incidents is notably substandard.

We don't know much about the 3-4 "subjects."  We may never know much about the 3-4 "subjects."

Is it a coincidence that the one and only time I have received an incomplete emergency alert notification from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office relates to 3-4 "subjects" who are breaking and entering private homes in my extremely safe neighborhood?

I would simply wonder whether the "subjects" plan to break into the Portola Valley home of a whistleblower of FBI malfeasance in the upcoming hours or days.

If so, I would wonder whether the "subjects" might be Special Forces personnel in another guise -- Rangers, specifically, since they have been mentioned to me several times.

Beyond this, I would wonder whether these "subjects" might be most interested in "liberating" two Phoenix personnel from their locked enclosures within my home -- attic and crawl space, respectively.

And finally, I would wonder whether these "subjects" might have a plan to become violent without warning toward a whistleblower and her family, who, it might be later reported, attempted unwisely to defend themselves.

OIG Hotline, I have lived in our current home in Portola Valley for seven-and-one-half years.

It is an astonishingly safe town.

Accordingly, I have never received an emergency alert like that included herewith.

My strong suspicion about this situation is that my town of Portola Valley is still safe.  But the presence of FBI personnel, Special Forces personnel, and Phoenix Program personnel is decidedly not.

I am once again reminded of the Latin quote, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?  (Who will watch the watchmen?)

In a democracy, that task falls to all of us.

And if ever law enforcement personnel contemplate first-degree murder as a means of escaping accountability for -- attempted first-degree murder -- all of us must respond by telling them no.

Perhaps that moment has now arrived.

Most sincerely,


Lane MacWilliams

UPDATE: Microsoft Updates Its Terms of Use

UPDATE:  OIG Hotline, my Microsoft account login information is included within an email to the attention of your Office within lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmai..com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, with a date/time stamp of today, September 28, 2023 at 2:47 PM Pacific time.

The subject heading for this communication reads as follows:  ATTN: OIG Hotline Re: Microsoft Account Information for Lane MacWilliams.

Please access this information at your earliest possible opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

With deep appreciation,




Lane MacWilliams

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OIG Hotline, your Office may be aware that Microsoft is updating its Terms of Use in a manner that allows for this company to be utilized by the FBI as a repository of false and defamatory information concerning law-abiding U.S. citizens.

I believe that I have two Microsoft accounts, one connected to lanemacwilliams@gmail.com and one connected to lanevh1@gmail.com.

At one point in the autumn of 2021, I was utilizing a Microsoft Outlook account to communicate with Tom Still, attorney for David Lieberman.

I was quite surprised, after having had this email account for approximately 3-5 weeks, to discover one day that my entire account history had been deleted without explanation.

I don't believe there was anything terribly critical within those communications.  However, the deletion of the history of this account suggests to me that the FBI might have used it to falsify communications which did not originate with me.

With this communication, I am conveying to the OIG Hotline a Dell laptop computer, which I may have inadvertently left out of previous documentation delineating transfer of ownership of my electronic devices.  Perhaps the Outlook email history can be retrieved from this device, or my other laptops, through forensic investigation.

The reason this is a pressing concern at this time is the following:  in order to separate myself from Microsoft's new Privacy Policy, which is not private at all, I need to close my Microsoft accounts.

When I do so, it is likely that the history of these accounts will be lost.

Out of a concern that your Office should have access to all documentation possible, I would respectfully request that the OIG Hotline ask that Microsoft preserve all accounts linked to my name and identity for the purposes of your investigation only.

I hereby grant the Office of the Inspector General Hotline  of the U.S. Department of Justice, and to no other Office, my full permission to communicate a preservation of evidence request to Microsoft regarding  any and all of my accounts with this company.

I believe that I must close my Microsoft accounts tomorrow, September 29, 2023, in order to avoid Microsoft's draconian new terms, which are certainly unacceptable to any person who has experienced the slander and defamation associated with the FBI's knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting against law-abiding U.S. citizens.

I will turn my attention to this task at 2:00 PM tomorrow, Pacific time.

It is my hope that the OIG Hotline will have been able to lay claim to any desired data or accounts prior to that time.

I apologize for the late notice with regard to this matter.

The likely presence of two Phoenix personnel within our residence at this time has been an security focus for the last several days, certainly, and continues to be so.

Thank you for your forbearance under the circumstances.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams

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Updated at 3:08 PM on September 28, 2023; Documentation of Lane MacWilliams' Wifi Usage, September 28, 2023

Please see the conclusion of this post for an updated online log.

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OIG Hotline, it appears as though my email documentation of my Wifi access today, September 28, 2023, was deleted by a third party over the last 90 minutes.

As a result, I will begin posting screenshots of my Wifi usage on this blog.

To confirm, all of my Wifi usage, phone usage, mail usage and in person communications have been and continue to be honorable and lawful in every way, shape and form.

I hereby certify that the foregoing is true, correct and complete.




Lane MacWilliams

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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

UPDATE on September 28, 2023 at 12:31 PM Pacific Time: Communications Regarding MacWilliams' Family Security

UPDATED September 28, 2023 at 12:31 PM Pacific Time

OIG Hotline, please also see a communication sent to lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, bearing a date/time stamp of today, September 28, 2023 at 12:05 PM, with a subject heading beginning ATTN: OIG HOTLINE.

Thank you very much for your active monitoring of this situation.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams

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OIG Hotline, please also see a communication sent to lanemacwilliams@gmail.com with the subject heading beginning ATTN: OIG HOTLINE, sent at 9:18 PM tonight, September 27, 2023.

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OIG Hotline, please be apprised that there is an email to your attention within my gmail account lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, bearing a date/time stamp of today, September 27, 2023 at 8:48 PM.

The subject heading of this communication is as follows:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: MacWilliams' Security at 45 Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley, CA.

Additional information concerning Graham MacWilliams is available within an email entitled "Lane MacWilliams' Wifi Access, September 27, 2023," sent at 8:54 PM, updated at 9:23 PM.

Please access this information at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

I deeply appreciate your presence at this time.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Update for SMC Sheriff's Office

Email sent to dsilberman@smcgov.org. From: lanemacwilliams@gmail.com. Date: September 26, 2023 at 9:52 PM

Re:  Update for SMC Sheriff's Office

To Attorney Silberman:

Please be aware of the following letter I sent to FBI Director Christopher Wray today.

Under these circumstances, it is critical that San Mateo County Sheriff's Office personnel do not attempt to respond to a "mistaken call" or an "informant call" to our residence for any reason.

Again, given that I am a whistleblower of malfeasance in the form of knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting for anti-democratic objectives perpetrated by both the FBI and the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, no SMC Sheriff's Office personnel should be responding to my address of 45 Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley, CA. 94028 without my express, verified request.

Questions regarding the investigation associated with this case should be directed to the Office of the Inspector General Hotline of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Any intention on the part of the SMC Sheriff's Department to engage in communication with me, or with any of my family members, should be vetted by the OIG Hotline a priori.

Thank you for your cooperation in this important matter.  Your attention to this issue will ensure that everyone is kept safe in a challenging circumstance.

Sincerely yours,

Lane MacWilliams

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To FBI Director Christopher Wray:

I write this letter to you out of concern for the welfare of two Special Forces personnel, who are alleged to be posted in the attic and crawl space of my family residence at 45 Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley, CA.

Allegedly, these two men are participants in the DoD's Phoenix Program, which appears to have targeted law-abiding American citizens, of which my family members and I count our own number, for anti-democratic objectives.

It has been reported to me that the FBI has engaged in extensive falsified law enforcement reporting against my family in an effort to justify aggressive law enforcement action against us as part of its ongoing effort to meet Phoenix Program quotas, even going so far as to coerce both of our sons into providing falsified witness statements to your agency.

Our older son, Graham, is unwell, as your agents appear to know, and in his presently confused state, is not a reliable testifier in any measure. He lacks capacity at this time.  Accordingly, I would respectfully request that you disallow all further contact between FBI personnel/affiliates with Graham so that we can access proper medical care on his behalf.

Our younger son and his girlfriend appear to have suffered grievous harm at the directive of FBI agent Tom Lyons.  No doubt, their experience has left them vulnerable to further unethical coercion by Tom Lyons and others.  As a result, I request that the FBI and its affiliates cease and desist in all further contact with these two beloved young people -- who deserve safety and healing at this time, not further threats and harm.

At various times, FBI personnel appear to have accused my husband and me of countless crimes, all of them fabricated.

My FOIA request to the FBI, as I'm sure you know, was returned to me with so many redactions and omissions that it constituted a largely meaningless document.

I have submitted a FOIA request directly to the ODNI, and I expect that request to be fulfilled in its entirety.

With regard to the allegations that there are two Special Forces personnel currently stationed within our residence with a violent intent, this is unacceptable.

My family should not be living in fear of a nighttime "break-in," a "mistaken" law enforcement raid or arson due to the fact that you wish to reclaim these men in a state of recoverable health.

We wish no physical harm to these individuals whatsoever, though it will be appropriate for them to face legal consequences for this crime.

I respectfully recommend that someone from the Department of Defense reach out to me directly via email at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com to arrange a safe way for these men to be identified and taken into custody.

Again, we wish them no physical harm whatsoever.  Having said that, we understand that they entered our home with the reported intent to take our lives.  As they are professional killers, we ourselves stand in a poor position to attempt to render them assistance.

They may need food and water, and they may require immediate medical care if they have been stationed within our residence since September 11, 2023, as has been alleged.

The only acceptable way forward in this situation is one of honesty and integrity.

The FBI has made many mistakes in perpetrating knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting against the law-abiding American public through the agency's unconstitutional "target of interest" program.  Clearly, the related physical harms perpetrated through the Phoenix Program against law-abiding citizens are yet more serious.

It is my understanding that the "target of interest" program and Phoenix, both, have been extended to countries within Western Europe, Central and South America, the Five Eyes, and other areas of the world.    So, there is a need for international accountability on the part of the FBI as well.

Yet, if it is true that two men have entered our home with your full knowledge, possessing a murderous intent toward us, it is also true that these men should not lose their lives as a result of the FBI's ethical failings.

I am told that the FBI is desperately attempting to fabricate yet more false claims of "espionage" or "terroristic activity" against my husband or myself in order to justify yet further aggression on the part of the agency.

Mr. Wray, for the FBI to persist in its lies at this time represents a losing strategy.

Your leadership requires character and integrity at this time in preserving the lives of two Special Forces personnel who are alleged to be posted within my residence.

I expect that you will demonstrate genuine and immediate concern for their welfare in directing that the appropriate individual from within the DoD reach out to me on an urgent basis.

Again, if these men are present within our home, as has been recently alleged to me, they likely require restorative food, clean water and urgent medical care -- all of these being necessities that your agency has, astonishingly, chosen to repeatedly deny to my own family.

Mr. Wray, part of being a fully developed human being means that we don't perpetrate gratuitous harm toward others -- even those who have harbored the most malevolent intent possible toward us, as the Phoenix Program assassins have done.

Someone with sufficient wisdom, fortitude, character and honesty must take charge in this unjust and deceitful circumstance, created by your own personnel.

That someone appears to be me.

Very well, then.  

Let's endeavor to ensure that these men get the care they need, and while we're at it, let's ensure that my family members receive the immediate and expert care they need as well.

I await prompt communication from the appropriate federal officer within the Department of Defense.

Sincerely yours,




Lane MacWilliams

An Open Letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray

To FBI Director Christopher Wray:

I write this letter to you out of concern for the welfare of two Special Forces personnel, who are alleged to be posted in the attic and crawl space of my family residence at 45 Vista Verde Way, Portola Valley, CA.

Allegedly, these two men are participants in the DoD's Phoenix Program, which appears to have targeted law-abiding American citizens, of which my family members and I count our own number, for anti-democratic objectives.

It has been reported to me that the FBI has engaged in extensive falsified law enforcement reporting against my family in an effort to justify aggressive law enforcement action against us as part of its ongoing effort to meet Phoenix Program quotas, even going so far as to coerce both of our sons into providing falsified witness statements to your agency.

Our older son, Graham, is unwell, as your agents appear to know, and in his presently confused state, is not a reliable testifier in any measure. He lacks capacity at this time.  Accordingly, I would respectfully request that you disallow all further contact between FBI personnel/affiliates with Graham so that we can access proper medical care on his behalf.

Our younger son and his girlfriend appear to have suffered grievous harm at the directive of FBI agent Tom Lyons  No doubt, their experience has left them vulnerable to further unethical coercion by Tom Lyons and others.  As a result, I request that the FBI and its affiliates cease and desist in all further contact with these two beloved young people -- who deserve safety and healing at this time, not further threats and harm.

At various times, FBI personnel appear to have accused my husband and me of countless crimes, all of them fabricated.

My FOIA request to the FBI, as I'm sure you know, was returned to me with so many redactions and omissions that it constituted a largely meaningless document.

I have submitted a FOIA request directly to the ODNI, and I expect that request to be fulfilled in its entirety.

With regard to the allegations that there are two Special Forces personnel currently stationed within our residence with a violent intent, this is unacceptable.

My family should not be living in fear of a nighttime "break-in," a "mistaken" law enforcement raid or arson due to the fact that you wish to reclaim these men in a state of recoverable health.

We wish no physical harm to these individuals whatsoever, though it will be appropriate for them to face legal consequences for this crime.

I respectfully recommend that someone from the Department of Defense reach out to me directly via email at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com to arrange a safe way for these men to be identified and taken into custody.

Again, we wish them no physical harm whatsoever.  Having said that, we understand that they entered our home with the reported intent to take our lives.  As they are professional killers, we ourselves stand in a poor position to attempt to render them assistance.

They may need food and water, and they may require immediate medical care if they have been stationed within our residence since September 11, 2023, as has been alleged.

The only acceptable way forward in this situation is one of honesty and integrity.

The FBI has made many mistakes in perpetrating knowingly falsified law enforcement reporting against the law-abiding American public through the agency's unconstitutional "target of interest" program.  Clearly, the related physical harms perpetrated through the Phoenix Program against law-abiding citizens are yet more serious.

It is my understanding that the "target of interest" program and Phoenix, both, have been extended to countries within Western Europe, Central and South America, the Five Eyes, and other areas of the world.    So, there is a need for international accountability on the part of the FBI as well.

Yet, if it is true that two men have entered our home with your full knowledge, possessing a murderous intent toward us, it is also true that these men should not lose their lives as a result of the FBI's ethical failings.

I am told that the FBI is desperately attempting to fabricate yet more false claims of "espionage" or "terroristic activity" against my husband or myself in order to justify yet further aggression on the part of the agency.

Mr. Wray, for the FBI to persist in its lies at this time represents a losing strategy.

Your leadership requires character and integrity at this time in preserving the lives of two Special Forces personnel who are alleged to be posted within my residence.

I expect that you will demonstrate genuine and immediate concern for their welfare in directing that the appropriate individual from within the DoD reach out to me on an urgent basis.

Again, if these men are present within our home, as has been recently alleged to me, they likely require restorative food, clean water and urgent medical care -- all of these being necessities that your agency has, astonishingly, chosen to repeatedly deny to my own family.

Mr. Wray, part of being a fully developed human being means that we don't perpetrate gratuitous harm toward others -- even those who have harbored the most malevolent intent possible toward us, as the Phoenix Program assassins have done.

Someone with sufficient wisdom, fortitude, character and honesty must take charge in this unjust and deceitful circumstance, created by your own personnel.

That someone appears to be me.

Very well, then.  

Let's endeavor to ensure that these men get the care they need, and while we're at it, let's ensure that my family members receive the immediate and expert care they need as well.

I await prompt communication from the appropriate federal officer within the Department of Defense.

Sincerely yours,




Lane MacWilliams

Grace and Humanity Toward a More Perfect Union

 1.  The U.S. military is reportedly upset with you over your disclosures concerning its perpetration of the Phoenix Program.

Answer:  I do realize that.

2.  Have you been told that, as of this morning, a contract concerning you has been extended to mercenaries who are only tangentially related to the three-letter agencies?

Answer:  I have, yes.

3.  How seriously do you view those allegations?

Answer:  The allegations are likely to be credible.

4.  Who is setting you out to a public "bid" in this context?  Which budget is this coming from?

Answer:  I am informed that black budgets conceal this sort of contract.  Members of organized crime are hired, typically, as is alleged to be the case here, following very recent disclosures on the DoD side.

5.  Is Christopher Wray aware of such a contract?  Is Williams Burns?

Answer:  Contracts such as this need to be approved by agency leadership.  A signature is required.  So, yes.

6.  So, if you or your family members contract SARS, cholera, H5N1, vibrio vulnificus -- if there is a sudden car or plane accident -- a sudden fire -- a bombing -- a drone assault -- if your family members are forced form their jobs -- if someone dies of an overdose -- if there is a violent crime incident or a kidnapping?

Answer:  Christopher Wray, and William Burns, who is said to be a good man, would have directly approved of this, yes.

7.  How can a good man approve of a crime of first-degree murder against a law-abiding member of the American public?

Answer:  How did good men approve of similar crimes in Germany, Italy, Argentina, Spain, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina and countless other places around the globe?

Good men can and do become confused about what constitutes a just exertion of official power against innocents.

It is our job to illuminate the difference between just initiatives and unjust ones.

8.  Don't you believe that individuals who are violating fundamental human rights know they are committing grievous wrongs?

Answer:  On an individual basis, yes.  They do know.  But mankind demonstrates troubling behavior as "the prerogative of the tribe" at times.  People often behave contrary to their personal principles in group settings in which conformity to unjust demands is viewed as compulsory.

This is the problem that psychologist Stanley Milgram was attempting to address.

9.  What is the answer to this problem?

Answer:  It's likely that we would all benefit from ethical practice, beginning in early childhood.  Role-playing for the conscience.  Exercises in empathy.  Lessons in how one individual can stand for what is right, even against tremendous pressure.

The individual is capable of great courage in circumstances of injustice.  Great fortitude.

Civilization requires that principled stance on the part of the public.

So, we should teach it.

10.  What is your view toward those who have perpetrated the Phoenix Program against the law-abiding American public?

Answer:  The United States requires a strong defense.  Our intelligence and military capabilities have far surpassed general public knowledge of technologies in deployment, and will only become stronger with time.

The Phoenix Program, however, stands in clear violation of the civil liberties and human rights that render self-governance by a participatory electorate possible.

As a result, we stand at a crossroads in the life of our democracy.

If we can't publicly address Phoenix, we can no longer be free.

11.  But may I ask once again about your view of the perpetrators of Phoenix?

Answer:  We are going to need to fully characterize the acts perpetrated through Phoenix, so a degree of mercy needs to be mixed with our pursuit of justice.

12.  You are speaking about amnesty programs?

Answer:  Justice and temperance must be present together in thee face of human atrocities.  The perpetrators of Phoenix must become empowered to speak about the system in which these wrongs have been committed.

Yet, there must be a priority on identifying victims and survivors of this program, so that we can help them recover to the greatest extent possible.

Survivors need all the compassion, engagement, connection, healing, dignity, honor and support we can extend to them.

I am reminded of the manner in which the Hotel Lutetia welcomed Holocaust victims after World War II.

Paris extended such grace and humanity in making this choice.

We, too, can extend ourselves with grace and humanity to survivors.

13.  What would be the first things you would say to survivors of the Phoenix Program?

Answer:  The first things?

I'm glad you're alive.

Your survival brings me joy.

Take my hand.

I'm going to help you.

Together, we will reclaim what you have lost.

Your human dignity is undiminished.

14.  Is there any more to say after that?

Answer:  There is.  There are thanks to extend to those who have helped me survive with my hope of helping others intact -- both domestically and internationally.

15.  And whom would you like to thank for the fact that you have survived to this beautiful Tuesday, September 26, 2023?

Answer:  President Biden, whose leadership as our Commander in Chief remains, in my opinion, unsurpassed.

The Honorable Avril Haines, whose support for our democracy has never wavered.

And the Office of the Inspector General Hotline, whose courage and integrity have been heroic.

Abiding gratitude, profound respect, common cause.




Lane MacWilliams


Monday, September 25, 2023

Email to the Attention of OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, please reference an email to your attention sent to lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwillliams7417@gmail.com at 9:24 PM. The subject heading begins with ATTN: OIG HOTLINE.

This material pertains to safety concerns relating to my family members and myself.

Accordingly, I will appreciate your referencing this information at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, you have my full permission to access my emails at any time.

In gratitude for your presence,


Lane MacWilliams









Brother, Take My Hand

OIG Hotline, just prior to twelve noon today, after an outburst, my older son embarked on a walk outside.

I followed him from approximately thirty feet behind, a safe distance, only to see him flag down a Cal Water truck, which appeared on Vista Verde Way, near our home, at precisely the time my son was leaving.

Clearly, he had spoken to this driver before.

They appeared to be well acquainted.

My son made a few statements that were inflammatory, such as "This woman is following me," while failing to acknowledge that we knew one another.

Seeing me observe the entire interaction, the Cal Water driver spoke not one word to my son, who soon walked off in exasperation.  At that point, the Cal Water driver approached me and paused his vehicle.

"My son is not having one of his best days," I offered.

"I understand completely," the Cal Water driver said.  "I have a son of my own in much the same situation.  We just take it one day at a time."

"We're certainly endeavoring to keep him safe," I said.

"I know what that's like," the Cal Water driver said.

Following this, he drove past me, climbing Vista Verde Way toward its cul de sac.  When he returned, several minutes later, he was speeding at approximately 50 mph, presumably so his plates would be hard to read.

They were indeed hard to read, and I only obtained a partial plate of the first three digits as California 823.

Having said that, Cal Water ought to be able to supply the rest of this pickup truck's license plate.

What was unusual enough about this experience for me to think investigators might wish to speak to the driver?

The driver of this Cal Water truck was highly educated, with at least one graduate degree, I would surmise.  In addition, his EQ was sky-high.  His level of intelligence, expressed empathy, education and receptivity conveyed to me clearly that he was not likely a Cal Water driver as his fundamental profession.

Nor do I think he was working for the FBI, actually.  Although FBI personnel can certainly be impressive, they typically possess certain rigid psychological structures that are easy to identify.  They prize compliance and conformity in sufficient amounts to allow them to remain in their jobs, for example, despite the ethically objectionable tasks that are assigned to them -- such as lying about law-abiding American citizens.

No, this Cal Water driver was, in my estimation, based on the few words we exchanged, a Ph.D. psychologist, likely in the employ of the CIA.

I would surmise, based on his familiarity in initially greeting my son, that he has been tasked with meeting Graham as a compassionate listener on multiple occasions, after which I would guess he has written exquisitely detailed -- and professionally astute -- witness statements for the CIA, which has, in turn, shared them with the FBI.

The FBI appears to be remaining one step removed from this deceit, although, in all likelihood, FBI personnel have orchestrated the minutest detail of these "talks."

The timing of this meeting on Vista Verde Way was nothing less than balletic, so the Cal Water truck must have been poised nearby.

When I spoke to my son later, I mentioned the unusual erudition and compassion of the Cal Water truck driver, and I observed that they appeared to know one another.

He did not contradict me, which, given my son's oppositional/defiant mindset, may be reasonably viewed as affirmation.

Certainly, it appears that the FBI  may have been working hard to coax my psychologically fragile son into a seemingly trustful confessional "friendship" with this Cal Water truck driver, in addition to others in the neighborhood who may also have "spontaneously" appeared to speak with him.

I will detail this information within an affidavit when I am able to do so.

But, I will simply say at this time that the predatory manipulation of this beloved and confused young man is deeply wrong.

Graham is likely not able to perceive when he is approached by those who intend to harm him or his family, through falsehoods or worse.

And now, due to the FBI's obstruction of treatment for his pituitary tumor, his volatility and confusion are becoming amplified, just at the time we hope we can garner greater safeguards for his medical treatment should he need to be hospitalized.

The other day, I mentioned to Graham the words of T.S. Eliot concerning men who seek to feel important in the process of harming others:

Half the harm that is done is this world is due to people who want to feel important.  They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them.  Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.

What does it say when a contracted "Cal Water driver" working for a three-letter agency is cunning enough to manipulate my son's desire to feel important in the wider world?

Does it speak well of him?

What will happen to my son if he loses his parents, who love him most in the world?

Will the "Cal Water driver" attend to the treatment of his pituitary tumor?  No?  What about his Echinococcus multilocularis?  No?  What about his schistosomiasis?  No?

I'm certain the "Cal Water driver" has been told that his witness statements are "crucial."  Has he also been told that they must be true?  How about supportive to a young man and his family who are under threat from a predatory far right segment of the FBI?  How about committed to shielding a whistleblower and her family until they can access safe medical care for each and every family member, with Graham at the top of that list?

Ultimately, as law-abiding supporters of our country, we must unmake secretive, predatory programs that manipulate and harm America's most vulnerable.

Americans' humanity toward one another should never be a feigned mimicry of good faith, extended in return for a paycheck or a promotion.

Americans' humanity toward one another must be something more.

It must be an expression of our character, our good will, our generosity, our compassion, our integrity, and our kindness.

It must be an expression of our very souls, which do not care for bank accounts or Bitcoin, for duplicity or defamation.

I think Americans have the integrity to reach out to one another in times of distress and utter the words, "Brother, take my hand."

The best societies are built upon that foundation of trust and benevolence.

America's most vulnerable are worthy of that gift.




Lane MacWilliams

Data/Credit Card Breach

OIG Hotline, some important updates:

It appears that Amazon has been engaging in a degree of complicit activity with the FBI with regard to my account.  I would hasten to add that this is almost certain practice for all "target of interest" Amazon accounts.

Neither of my sons placed a charge for $152.03 on September 16, 2023.  Instead, Amazon, without explanation, charged a credit card that was not my default credit card for Amazon's annual Prime membership fee.

When I spoke to Amazon Customer Service Rep "Jules," she appeared to disconnect our call several times and engage in active duplicity several more.  Ultimately, she could not explain this occurrence.

I have, in response, changed the number on my Alaska Visa card in order to prevent future fraudulent activity.

With regard to online data security, it may be noteworthy to mention that Genworth Insurance has repeatedly communicated to my husband and me that this company experienced a security breach recently.  (Please see the letter below.) The company's response to this "privacy" violation was to recommend monitoring for identity theft by a company called Kroll.  Ironically, in authorizing aggregation of all online information to a company like Kroll, through parent company PBI, consumers inadvertently waive all privacy rights.

Kroll can effectively serve as an indefinite repository of the worst disinformation the FBI and its affiliates have created concerning law-abiding American citizens.

Accordingly, my husband and I will not be activating Kroll's so-called "identity theft restoration services."

Instead, Genworth remains fully liable to us for all data breaches its company suffered at the hands of a malevolent third party.

We will be extending extra vigilance surrounding unusual credit card activity, as with my Amazon account.

Thank you for your forbearance as I attended to this unexplained use of my credit card this morning.




Lane MacWilliams

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Updated Communication

 OIG Hotline, please be aware of an updated communication to your Office at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, sent today September 25, 2023 at 10:04 AM.

This communication is appended to an earlier email with the subject heading ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Amazon Purchases by Graham MacWilliams, Likely Directed by FBI Personnel.

Given the fact that the FBI has rendered my family members seriously ill, we may have more than one individual who, in his distress, is acting outside of his normal patterns of behavior at this time.

Thank you for your patience as we attempt to learn more.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams


New Information for OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, there is a communication for you in my email inbox at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, with a date/time stamp of today, September 25, 2023 at 7:56 AM. 

 The subject heading of this email is as follows:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re:  September 24, 2023, Actions of Graham MacWilliams.

This material will be placed into an affidavit as soon as possible, and my husband will be delineating his experience of these events within an affidavit as well.

Please access this content at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts at any time your Office so desires.

Please accept my deep appreciation for your ongoing efforts in this matter.

Most sincerely,




Lane MacWilliams 



Sunday, September 24, 2023

Documentation of Recent Threats Extended to the MacWilliams Family

OIG Hotline, I have documented threats I have received this weekend from FBI affiliates pertaining to my family members  -- including Mary Grinnell -- and myself.

This information is located within an email sent to your Office's attention at lanemacwilliams@gmail.com,  with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, bearing a date/time stamp of today, September 24, 2023 at 5:05 PM Pacific time.

This subject heading of this email is as follows:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE Re: Threats Extended by FBI Affiliates Toward the MacWilliams Family and Mary Grinnell.

Please access this content at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts whenever your Office so desires.

With appreciation for your presence,




Lane MacWilliams

Important Information for the OIG Hotline

OIG Hotline, there is a communication for you within my gmail lanemacwilliams@gmail.com, with copies sent to lmacwilliams77419@gmail.com and lmacwilliams7417@gmail.com, bearing a date/time stamp of today, September 24, 2023 at 1:59 PM Pacific time.

This subject heading of this email is as follows:  ATTN: OIG HOTLINE: Important Information.

Please access this content at your earliest opportunity.

As you know, the OIG Hotline has my full permission to access my email accounts whenever your Office so desires.

With appreciation for your presence,




Lane MacWilliams

Do Autonomous Drones Pose a Fundamental Threat to Democracy? -- Update

Update:  The answer to question #17 has been expanded.

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1.  When you think about AI manifesting in myriad areas of human civilization, what applications concern you the most?

Answer:  At this particular time?  AI development in drone warfare.

2.  Why?

Answer:  When we no longer have individual human pilots who are responsible for drone deployments and assaults, we will have created an existential threat to humanity.

3.  Can't autonomous drones be programed to implement the same battle criteria as human drone pilots?

Answer:  Again, we need to pause at the threshold of disconnecting the human conscience from offensive assaults which take human life.

Human drone pilots have the capacity to serve as whistleblowers regarding unjustified drone deployments, and some of them have.

The New York Times has written some important articles concerning the notion of "moral injury" sustained by drone pilots, relating to their experience of guilt over unjustified assaults.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/us/drones-airstrikes-ptsd.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/podcasts/the-daily/drones-airstrikes-military-ptsd.html

Autonomous drones, lacking the conscience, the empathy, the compassion, the moral framework, the soul that renders us human -- are simply never going to object when tasked in ways that violate domestic and international rules of conduct.

4.  Is there a role for autonomous drones?

Answer:  I believe there is, but I would assert that that role should be focused on defensive capabilities that target attack drones only.  Civilian populations have the right to conduct their lives without fear of drone assault.  To the extent that autonomous drones can keep the skies clear of all offensive drone deployments, autonomous drones may have an important defensive role to play.

5.  You do not support offensive capabilities in autonomous drone development.

Answer:  No one who truly understands this civilizational threshold would support offensive capabilities in autonomous drone development.

Decisions that end human life must never become disconnected from real people who are responsible for those choices.

6.  When you consider the potential for two opposing forces of autonomous offensive drones, what do you think the public should understand?

Answer:  Autonomous offensive drones represent an impending threat to the freedom of mankind.

If we value free speech, freedom of assembly, the right to privacy, freedom of the press -- we need to object to their development and deployment on an immediate basis.

7.  Why do you say we need to object on an immediate basis?

Answer:  The New York Times reported on August 28, 2023 that the Pentagon plans to buy thousands of unmanned drones and other autonomous devices within the next two years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/us/politics/pentagon-drones-china.html

8.  How do you respond to the assertion that other nations have been making substantial investments in autonomous warfare capabilities?

Answer:  Our wisest approach is to invest in ways to defend against autonomous AI military drone and device deployments toward civilian populations.

9.  Why is this your assessment?

Answer:  Autonomous offensive drone and device capabilities, on two opposing sides, represent an existential threat for human civilization.

This type of AI system will be programed to "win," not to preserve human life or the environment.

A "war games" scenario of this kind will rapidly escalate beyond acceptable humanitarian and environmental bounds.

10.  What would happen to whistleblowers in a future defined by autonomous military drones?

Answer:  Whistleblowers would quickly vanish from view.  Free speech would be forfeit.  All dissent would be disallowed.  Totalitarianism would have arrived, and it would have arrived with a technology that societies may be incapable of de-escalating.

11.  You are assuming that drones would be domestically deployed.

Answer:  My husband and I are law-abiding American citizens, yet we have had drones deployed above our residence for at least the last two years.

12.  Because of your whistleblower stance?

Answer:  There is no other reason.

13.  So your point is that drones are already being domestically deployed against U.S. citizens.

Answer:  That is my point exactly.

14.  Do you think the drones deployed to your residence may have had assault capabilities?

Answer:  I think the drones deployed to my residence have had human supervision at some point in the chain of command.

But I also think it is likely that military capabilities have progressed beyond the DoD's public announcements.

Google signed a contract with the Pentagon to develop AI for drone applications in 2021, so readers can extrapolate from there.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/15/technology/google-ai-pentagon.html

15.  You have been specifically threatened with drone assault.

Answer:  Many times.

16.  Have those threats had an impact on your quality of life?

Answer:  Of course.

17.  If AI-driven autonomous drone capabilities already exist and are already in deployment, what regulatory possibilities are left to us?

Answer:  Policy and law-making, driven by the public's demand for a peaceable future.

It must be stated that the Biden administration has taken critical steps to prevent the targeting of civilian populations with drone strikes overseas.  This is yet another reason that I stand in admiration of President Biden as our Commander in Chief.  He is fully engaged with this issue.  He understands this as a defining moment for democracy in both a domestic and international context.

18.  Yet the public may need to be informed about what is at stake for all of us at this historic moment.

Answer:  Yes, this threshold must be illuminated so that the public can see it clearly.

19.  And what is at stake for us?

Answer:  The sovereignty of the individual.  The right of electorates to self-govern.  The humanitarian progress of civilization.  The life of democracies the world over.  The freedom of mankind.




Lane MacWilliams

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