OIG Hotline, based on the range and specificity of the threats I have received, it appears that the far right is intent on retaining power through any means within its reach.
While I do recognize that exposure of the FBI's perpetration of falsified law enforcement reporting for anti-democratic objectives represents a crisis for the agency, I must observe that it represents a greater crisis for our democratic electorate, alongside the voters of many other nations around the world.
Accordingly, I am publishing a portion of those threats herewith, in the hope that their real-world manifestation might be decisively prevented.
This material does not delineate the specific threats from FBI affiliates to Paris, or to the nation of Israel, nor does it address FBI affiliates' threats of other harms such as a worldwide "outbreak" of a pathogen as yet unnamed.
But it does, I believe, go some distance toward illuminating potential far right stratagems for usurping power from the democratic electorate in furtherance of autocratic aims, as yet concealed from the vast majority of the concerned public.
Most sincerely,
Lane MacWilliams
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OIG Hotline, I am further informed that the far right within the three-letter agencies has discussed a 9/11-type of event affecting Chicago. Allegedly, this planning again seeks to weaponize commercial flights against primarily civilian targets by pre-arranging the perpetration of these acts by Muslim extremist groups.
Allegedly, the far right desires to mischaracterize President Biden as inattentive to the issue of migrants crossing our southern border through these acts, intending to wrongfully discredit him as unmindful of terrorist threats to our nation.
Recent public quotes from Donald Trump disclose this narrative quite clearly: "After Attacks, Trump Claims His Travel Ban Is Needed Now."
"Trump Touts New Travel Ban in Fear-laden Speech."
https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-touts-travel-ban-011813890.html
Unfortunately, it is suggested that far right personnel within the CIA, the FBI, the DHS and the DoD have been involved in these discussions.
Although the primary driver behind the aforementioned planning is said to be Russia, those with totalitarian aims within our own three-letter agencies allegedly hope to secure a far right election outcome on the basis of public support for increased militarization of American society following such an event.
Regrettably, there is the suggestion that 9/11 was perpetrated with a degree of foreknowledge on the part of the FBI. Although this assertion is difficult to lend credence to, the FBI engaged in troublingly punitive behavior toward FBI agents Colleen Rowley and Kenneth Williams, appearing to actively suppress investigations of suspects in the weeks leading up to September 11. In return for Agent Rowley's conscientious stance as a whistleblower regarding this matter, the agency opened an espionage investigation against her and forced her early retirement. Retaliation toward Mr. Williams is unknown by me at this time.
Immediately following 9/11, Vice President Dick Cheney publicly asserted that the Church Committee limitations on FBI powers had effectively "dismantled" the capabilities of American intelligence agencies.
What had the Church Committee asserted? It had stated that the agency's political abuses were designed to "entrench the Bureau's own position in the political structure" of the nation. The Committee recognized that the agency "painted any challenges to the existing social order as threats to national security." And it further warned that the agency's power to "covertly accumulate and selectively disseminate domestic intelligence information could subvert democratic processes." (From Disrupt, Discredit and Divide by Mike German)
What powers did the FBI gain as a direct result of 9/11? By way of answer, I include a longer quote from Disrupt, Discredit and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy. My apologies to Mike German, but his unaltered words are indispensable at the moment.
"At Attorney General John Ashcroft's urging, Congress passed the USA Patriot Act within weeks of the attacks, loosening restrictions in FISA and a dozen other surveillance statutes so the FBI could surreptitiously gather information about anyone it deemed 'relevant' to a terrorism or espionage investigation, rather than just predicated targets. It removed the FISA 'primary purpose" test so agents could more easily use the secret court system to gather evidence for use in criminal trials. It would be years before many in Congress would learn, from the New York Times, that President Bush had secretly authorized the National Security Agency to violate the clear statutory requirements of FISA to conduct mass surveillance of Americans' electronic communications without judicial authorization."
As a law-abiding American citizen who has been wrongfully assailed by the FBI through false "terrorism" and "espionage" investigations made possible by the Patriot Act, I can confidently state that this legislation was a mistake -- albeit an understandable one -- made by a horrified Congress in the immediate aftermath of the atrocity of September 11th. The nation wanted to be safe. All of us wanted to be safe. The schoolteacher, the mailman, the professor, the construction worker, the opera singer -- all of us. And Congress responded with the best information it had at the time.
The fact that the FBI has so egregiously abused its nearly limitless powers within the Patriot Act and the Espionage Act that it now threatens our democracy itself was simply not foreseen by an America reeling from the immense human tragedy that 9/11 forced upon us.
Likely no one imagined that the FBI would, twenty-two years hence, be actively lying about large numbers of law-abiding American citizens for anti-democratic objectives.
Beyond this, who among us could have imagined that the FBI's falsified law enforcement reporting would be utilized to justify physical harm of those good people?
The scenario that has come to pass -- albeit concealed from the public view -- represents the worst possible outcome of the gift of the public's trust in the FBI and its affiliates.
At this moment in our nation's history, we would do well to ask what the social and political ramifications of yet another 9/11-type of event would be for us domestically.
Would the far right lock in permanent control over our political system, beginning most dramatically with a victory for Donald Trump in 2024?
Would Ukraine fall, because the U.S. Congress could no longer build sufficient consensus to lend American support?
Would terrorist acts be utilized to entrench totalitarian regimes in other nations as well?
Would the majority of the world evolve toward a surveillance state, in which all conversations were recorded, and any word against a far-right government might mean imprisonment, torture, or death?
Would free will itself fall victim to the far right's demands for "compliance" from the electorate in all matters?
Would all who refused to comply with a far right government be falsely portrayed as predatory, criminal, immoral or insane?
Would whistleblowers disappear or die? Would whistleblowers' family members and friends disappear or die?
As we contemplate the far right's threat to perpetrate further terrorist acts, both domestically and worldwide, we need to ask what freedom is worth to us.
Is freedom worth our taking a stand against the totalitarian far right -- and Vladimir Putin along with them -- in defense of the civil liberties and human rights we hold as invaluable?
For me, it is.
Do we have the strength of character to face those who would perpetrate human atrocities for personal gain, knowing they would harm us without hesitation?
I possess the strength.
Do we have the force of will to outlast those on the far right who seek to profit off of the human suffering they themselves have caused?
My will has not failed me.
Do we have the courage to speak the truth about the crimes of the far right to ensure that those unconscionable harms cannot continue?
My courage endures.
Do we have sufficient faith to continue?
My faith is the reason I'm here.
I believe, in conveying the threats extended by a wayward FBI and its far right affiliates to perpetrate another 9/11 within a United States city, or to attack civilians in a European capitol, or to dramatically escalate conflict in the Middle East, that we can prevent these crimes from transpiring.
Otherwise, we can point out to the whole world the far right's injustice should any of these events occur.
People of goodwill must stand together at this critical moment in our history, in which our technologies have outpaced our restraint, in which the desire for power on the part of an unelected few vies for preeminence with the desire for peace on the part of the many, in which disinformation threatens to eclipse what we know to be one another's virtues.
And this is my request -- that people of goodwill will join with me in this effort, so that our freedoms, our human rights, and our heartfelt faith in one another can be reclaimed.
Lane MacWilliams
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