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Report: FBI Deputizes 23,000 Business Leaders

HeadlineFeb 08, 2008

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. According to one whistleblower, the FBI has given members of InfraGard permission to shoot to kill in the event of martial law.

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