Lane von Herzen: The FBI Lost This Case

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.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

The FBI Lost This Case

OIG Hotline, there is an apparent suggestion by the FBI that awards extended in my name through your auspices and that of the ODNI may be argued by attorneys for the FBI itself to be unconstitutional, with the agency's intention of subsequently misappropriating already designated funds.

Clearly, what is unconstitutional is the FBI's theft of funds intended to address the FBI's flagrant abuse, misconduct, and predation in this case.

If the case itself were unconstitutional, the Supreme Court would have refused to hear it.

Yet the Highest Court has, according to the FBI, spent great time and effort on this matter, including rendering myriad judgements in my favor, not the least of which is reported to be an Order that FOIA reports and investigative reports be provided to me.

Concealment of this case has allowed the FBI altogether too much judicial leeway.

If the FBI chooses to make the argument that future judgements should be handled in a different manner, that argument may be considered.

But the agency should not be enabled to retroactively invalidate a legal process in which the agency has played an astonishingly active, if consistently dishonest, role.

The FBI lost this case.

That doesn't mean that the agency is now allowed to question its constitutionality with a view toward misappropriating judgements against it as perpetrator.

That means that the FBI lost.

How public that loss becomes is a matter for discussion, no doubt, but the fundamentals of the agency's violations of my rights and those of my family members cannot be in doubt.

Thank you for allowing me to express this concern.

Most sincerely,