The Jewel in the Crown

 

The United States government needs to consider the origins of the FBI's theft and sale of American IP to China, particularly with regard to the agency's crimes toward entrepreneurs and inventors within Silicon Valley.

The South Bay Chief of Station has appeared to make a specialty in recent years of stealing the IP of Silicon Valley companies, selling it to the highest bidder, and then opening spurious investigations of his victims, who are primarily Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

This aligns with the objectives of our foreign adversaries quite clearly.  Russia and China are only too happy to oversee this undoing.  Intellectual property is not only stolen and sold, but those inventors who have the greatest capacity to generate more innovation and new businesses are sidelined through knowingly falsified witness statements, coerced by the FBI, which implicate them of behaving "suspiciously," handling IP carelessly, making "contacts" in airports and while on travel, and betraying their loyalties to their nation, their companies, and their families.

The FBI appears to allege that it has paid for AI-generated audio and video falsely implicating its "targets" of industrial espionage.

The agency alleges coercing false statements from all of a key "target's" contacts, including current and past colleagues, relatives, friends, and complete strangers regarding supposed "glimpses" of "suspicious material" on his or her cell phone, among his or her papers, or on his or her computer.  In some cases, FBI affiliates break into a "target's" home in order to plant implicating material.

Yet, the condemnatory "evidence" does not exist without the FBI's having created it, through AI systems or otherwise.

The FBI appears to suggest that all manner of harms -- from forced job loss to arrest to staged vehicle accidents  -- can be justified on the basis of false allegations pertaining to the circumstances of the FBI's theft and sale of Silicon Valley IP.

Meanwhile, the subjects are never told that they are being investigated, and likely have no notion of their peril whatsoever.  Even in the event of forced job loss, the victims likely have no idea about what has transpired.

Likely, the FBI plans mass arrests pertaining to its own theft of Silicon Valley IP at some point, but in the meantime, it appears to be aggregating as much false material as possible to justify ruining honorable Americans' lives.

And we must acknowledge that Silicon Valley truly represents an economic jewel in the crown of America -- one which our foreign adversaries would no doubt like to remove from its setting.

Yet, I must observe that creators, whether they be artists, scientists, inventors, or entrepreneurs, are deeply invested in their works, pouring their heart and soul into their creations so that there is almost no distance between their labors and themselves.  To betray their efforts would be to steal from their own souls, which creators would never do.  The wellspring of all creation depends on the creator's internal gifts, not external wealth or the trappings of luxury.

So, this set of FBI crimes, instigated by Russia, but manifested with China's help, is particularly painful to those who have dedicated their whole lives to creating meaningful work, and equally painful to the nation as a whole, which relies on our human talent to form the substance of our economy, the engine of our advancement, and the mainstay of our international competitiveness.

On an immediate basis, the South Bay Chief of Station and the FBI as an institution should be closely questioned about the apparent stance of the FBI in opposition to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, as well as the specifics of the agency's betrayal of American companies in compliance with a foreign agenda.

In particular, the plans for mass arrests of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs whose IP the FBI has stolen remain deeply troubling.

Further, the increase in the number of appointed judges in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties to accommodate the anticipated overflow of cases pertaining to "industrial espionage" represents Russia's malevolent reach into our very infrastructure in a manner that is intended to ensure that Silicon Valley cannot recover.

This issue matters to our nation's sovereignty, and it should be pursued vigorously, in my opinion.

Russia should not be allowed to prejudicially and preferentially attack our best and brightest inventors, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs, and it is up to the U.S. Congress, the Supreme Court, the Joint Commission, the Committee of 300, the DOJ, and the White House to halt Russia's predatory plan to deal this devastating blow to the American entrepreneurial ethos and all who render it a vibrant, resilient, creative, transformative force for the advancement of the United States, and, untimately, the benefit of the entire world.

Vladimir Putin must be denied his desire to deconstruct Silicon Valley, and other vibrant communities of creators, artists, scientists and inventors within the United States, including our Universities.

So must President Xi Jinping.

Let us preserve the jewel in the crown of American innovation and creativity.

Let us insist that America's culture of dedicated invention and scientific discovery, artistic epiphany and transformative breakthrough will continue to be cherished and upheld as an elemental part of our nation's identity, inseparable from our future, indivisible from our people, essential to our sovereignty.

Most sincerely,

Lane MacWilliams