1. You have been asked to comment about President Biden's actions vis a vis your case. Would you like to offer a statement?
Answer: I don't really feel that a statement of that kind is appropriate at this time. My children have suffered harm and we have not been able to speak together about what has happened to them. In general, Presidents deserve our respect and courtesy.
2. Have you ever threatened a public official or judge?
Answer: I have not.
3. Have you ever conspired to harm a public official or judge?
Answer: I have not.
4. Have you emailed your sons with an intent to foment any action against the President?
Answer: No. I have emailed my sons asking them not to follow unconstitutional directives that oppose their own personal knowledge of what is ethically right.
5. Do you feel that you have the authority to direct your sons over and above the President of the United States?
Answer: I possess no governmental authority whatsoever.
I simply possess a knowledge that my sons are good people, and I expect them to hold to their own highest standards in making decisions. All decisions. That's the way I raised them -- to think for themselves with regard to ethics.
Every individual possesses an internal ethical compass, and if they possess sovereignty, they will be able to reference that compass in guiding them in their independent decision-making.
If they have been separated from their sovereign decision-making for any reason, then they are entirely vulnerable, and they require active legal advocacy under those circumstances.
6. How do you feel about the fact that President Biden may accuse you of breaking the law by publishing your blog post requesting that he call your younger son home?
Answer: Let's ask the American people. I don't think my opinion as a loving mother should be prejudicial. I think we should allow the American people to decide for themselves whether they think America's mothers have a right to ask that a whistleblower's sons not be conscripted by the government on a retaliatory basis.
7. Do America's mothers wield authority with regard to this kind of concealed directive?
Answer: Look at what the mothers of the "Disappeared" did in Argentina. They peacefully asked for an explanation.
Mothers wield a great deal of societal authority, because they love their children more than anyone else does.
So when a nation listens to a loving mother, it listens with respect.
And I have been advocating for all of America's sons and daughters, not merely my own.
If I had signed a secrecy agreement, then the White House might have a point.
But I have not done so. I am bound only by my love for my children, and I have no contractual or regulatory commitment to abandon that love.
So my actions are informed by the highest possible motives and none other.
8. What are the requirements of the government to respect individual sovereignty in a case like this?
Answer: What are the requirements of the government to respect individual sovereignty in every case, for every American, at all times? The answer is the same.
9. Did you raise your sons in a way that allows you to express moral authority toward them even though they are adults?
Answer: I raised my sons with books, music, sports, faith, encouragement, humor, confidence, travel, hope, dear friends, independence, abundant learning, the highest ethics, and limitless love. That gives me a say with regard to their wellbeing. Yes, it does.
10. Your sons have recently been directed to file false witness statements about you to suggest mental instability. Would you like to comment?
Answer: Honestly, I have been stunningly resilient through all of this, in my opinion.
11. How have you handled the frustration, the anger, the sense of powerlessness that must have been inevitable given events that have transpired?
Answer: I believe in expressing anger, but expressing it alone, in a manner that does not cause distress or harm to others. This is just my way of processing the understandable emotion relating to this circumstance. I think it's alright to express a storm of distress, but not in the presence of others. That's just my personal ethic. And it has helped me to stay grounded in highly stressful conditions.
12. Should the government be filming and recording you within your own house, in those moments when you might be expressing emotion by yourself?
Answer: Again, should the government be filming and recording any law-abiding American within her own house? What if she's taking a shower? What if she's having a baby? What if she's arguing with a cousin? What if she trips in her high heels one day? What's if she hums off-key when she has laryngitis? What if she's reading a book of an opposing political party? What if the government creates AI-generated film and audio of actions she never performed or words she never spoke?
The Constitution allows us a right to privacy, and there are important reasons for that requirement. Unjustified surveillance is never benevolent, and the public needs to understand this point. There is an overarching intent to find reasons to perpetrate physical harm when continuous surveillance is in place.
So, we need to endeavor to return to Constitutional precepts in counterbalancing the extensive surveillance prerogatives of the FBI and its affiliates toward the American public as a whole.
13. Do you hope to receive your FOIA reports, along with the investigative reports of the OIG Hotline and the ODNI?
Answer: Yes, I do.
14. Might that now occur?
Answer: It will be a great accomplishment of the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, the DOJ as a whole and the OIG Hotline if it does.
15. What makes you trustworthy regarding this endeavor?
Answer: What makes me trustworthy regarding any endeavor? I am bringing the highest possible motives to this case. I care about others more than I care for myself. I believe in the long term necessity of securing the sovereignty of mankind, the freedom of the human race, the magnificence of human reach and the sanctity of the human spirit -- and in doing all of these things while serving as excellent stewards of our environment. If we ensure that possible future through our insistence on its societal architecture now, then this vision can be realized.
16. Thank you for your thoughts this afternoon.
Answer: You're quite welcome.
Lane MacWilliams
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