1. You asked your husband to reach out to the Falmouth Police Department after you yourself had no response from them to your email. Is that correct?
Answer: Yes, I asked him to email the Falmouth Police Department yesterday, and he did so. And today, he received a response which he followed up with a phone call requesting a visit to the property.
2. Did the Falmouth Police Department email your husband after visiting the property?
Answer: I don't believe so, no. The officer did apparently say he would follow up with any concerns after his visit to our family home.
3. But are you now receiving threats of an unjustified law enforcement raid on your home in Portola Valley?
Answer: Well, I received an email from the Woods Hole Cemetery this afternoon, which is a highly unusual event. So, this could be considered a implicit threat.
4. Is that your family cemetery?
Answer: My parents are buried there, yes.
5. And how often have you received emails from that cemetery?
Answer: I have received two other emails from the cemetery over the last five years.
6. There have been repeated threats that evidence of capital crimes has been placed within your home on Cape Cod and on your property there. Is it possible that the FBI would direct the Falmouth Police Department to "discover" planted "evidence" of some kind in order to wrongfully justify a law enforcement raid on your home in Portola Valley?
Answer: Well, the FBI appears highly motivated to exculpate itself regarding this case. So, yes, of course, it's possible. That doesn't explain our formal requests that the Falmouth Police Department visit the house to check for any problems whatsoever. And I think it's clear that any person with conduct to hide would not be contacting the police to check for any signs of problems at their home.
7. What is it like for you to receive threats of this nature against the home that has been in your family for fifty years?
Answer: Truthfully, the threats themselves feel like a desecration. I don't know what harms the FBI perpetrated at my family home, if any. But the threats themselves have been extremely dishonoring to my parents' memories and to my family as a whole. My father taught me to waltz in that house while I stood on the tips of his toes. My mother played Clair de Lune on our baby grand piano on summer nights in that house -- and the beauty of her interpretation was so stunning, it will always live with me. My brother and I searched for hidden Easter eggs with our Easter baskets in that house. My father taught me to sail from the private harbor close by. We sat by the fire with our teenage friends after tobogganing parties in the winter in that house. We shared three-generational family gatherings in that house when my children were born. It's a place with joyful and wholesome and heartfelt memories for me, alongside my entire family, and the FBI ought not to have the malevolent dispensation to change that.
8. If there are any problems of any kind at the house -- and I know you have received ostensible threats of flooding as well as the FBI's attempted framing pertaining to capital crimes -- what should happen next?
Answer: There would need to be outreach from the OIG Hotline, the DOJ, and whatever attorneys have been representing my case, whether within the ACLU, the SPLC, or elsewhere.
9. Would the FBI be willing to disclose to the OIG Hotline the nature of any crimes it had perpetrated at your property?
Answer: You know, I think we may have reached a point at which full disclosure is no longer optional for the FBI. It's necessary. I am attempting to allow the FBI the opportunity to confess to the OIG Hotline whatever its malfeasance may have been, at which point this can become a private dialogue with attorneys. But I think that now, if any of these allegations of FBI crimes hold weight, we have simply reached the point at which the agency must acknowledge its acts.
10. If you had not reached out to the Falmouth Police Department, what could have happened to your family and to you?
Answer: The FBI could have killed us through an unjustified police raid at any time.
11. Is this a realistic concern?
Answer: If the FBI has gone so far as to attempt to frame your family members or you yourself for capital crimes, yes, it is an all-too-realistic concern.
12. If any of these harms were actually perpetrated at your property, how would President Biden explain the authorizations he himself would have had to extend regarding these acts?
Answer: Well, I think we should ask him directly.
13. If the FBI has flooded your family home, or placed wrongful evidence of crimes at your family home, would you be worried about the agency's having potentially done the same thing to your 3.5 acre property in California?
Answer: I addressed this question yesterday, and the answer is yes. We have a wooded property that we cannot effectively defend from trespass. So, the FBI and its affiliates could have placed false evidence somewhere on our land without any awareness on our part whatsoever.
14. Are you still determined to hire bloodhounds to go over the property?
Answer: Absolutely. I refuse to have threats like this go unaddressed. I will find out the truth of the FBI's conduct in this matter, and this issue will be resolved to my satisfaction.
15. Do you feel more confident of successful resolution now that President Trump is in Office?
Answer: Much more confident, yes.
16. Why?
Answer: President Trump has made it clear that he has pressing concerns about the criminality of the FBI toward the law-abiding American public. And he was experiencing some of this predation himself. So, I feel as though he is much more informed and concerned than President Biden.
17. If the FBI has caused any of these threatened harms to your properties, what should happen to the personnel who perpetrated the wrongs?
Answer: That's up to a judicial process.
18. But if you yourself have a say about prosecution, what would be your inclination?
Answer: I would not engage in speculation over this issue, because there are many other considerations involved.
19. Do you feel concerned for your family's safety tonight, in advance of further news from the East Coast?
Answer: I have felt safer since President Trump took Office than I have in years. Yes, there are concerns for our safety, but I am counting on President Trump and his administration to safeguard us.
20. Will you please update us regarding this situation tomorrow?
Answer: Yes, of course, I will, with the caveat that if I receive appropriate outreach from the OIG Hotline, the DOJ, the ACLU or the SPLC, I may not be as free to disclose the FBI's crimes against my family in a public context. In fact, if outreach occurs which acknowledges the FBI's wrongdoing against us, it may be necessary to remove a number of posts during the time that attorneys are addressing these issues.
21. Thank you for speaking with us this evening.
Answer: You are quite welcome.
Lane MacWilliams
P.S. -- Please allow me to once again extend the disclaimer that some threats received by me and extended by the FBI are unsubstantiated by me at this time. I regret that I am unable to assess the credibility of every threat extended by this agency or its affiliates, and also that I am not in a position to judge the likelihood of manifestation. Having said that, many of the FBI's threats toward my family in the past have manifested in real-world harms. As a result, I believe that FBI threats extended to me must be viewed as potentially substantive.
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