Over 23,000 Business Leaders Working With FBI and Homeland Security

The Progressive magazine is reporting that more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The business leaders form a group known as InfraGard that receives warnings of terrorist threats directly from the FBI before the public does. Full Story »

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Mark Monday
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by Mark Monday - Oct. 1, 2008

The story is JUNK or worse. Amy, who does some really decent stories, should be in sack cloth and ashes this Lent for breathing life into this piece of hysterical venom from someone who wanted to make themselves self-important. There are tens of thousands of InfraGard members -- and the reporter can't find a piece of paper with incriminating evidence on it but needs to rely on someone who goes into hysterics? Nothing is secret when two people know it; when tens of thousands know it, it's common knowledge. Having been a journalist for 20 years of my professional life this kind of irresponsible journalism makes my blood boil. The daily bulletins are apparently the same ones found on the Department of Homeland Security buletin ... More »

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Ben Ross
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by Ben Ross - Oct. 1, 2008

FBI using business people to spy...be the frontline of homeland security....does not seem far fetched....I wonder about the $...how much is being spent and who is getting it ...also oversite? No thing said .......then again I have heard not a peep of this in the corporate media.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The interview reveals a secretive society merging business and government to spy on their neighbors, with a "deputized" authority to shoot to kill. Scary stuff. Impeachment time yet?

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