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Feb. 11, 2008
Report: 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. We speak with the the reporter who broke the story and the editor of The Progressive, Matt Rothschild. [includes rush transcript]
Matt Rothschild, reporter who wrote the piece, “The FBI Deputizes Business.” He is editor of The Progressive magazine and is author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression.
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Businessmen can “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law!!
Added: February 11, 2008
h/t: The Largest Minority
see
Infragard – First in a Series by Virginia Simson
The FBI Deputizes Business By Matthew Rothschild
An Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove – How American Democracy Relies on Fascism By Ted Rall
Police State America – A Look Back and Ahead by Stephen Lendman
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