FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill'...Sounds pretty fascist to me.
InfraGard is not readily accessible to the general public. Its communications with the FBI and Homeland Security are beyond the reach of the Freedom of Information Act under the "trade secrets" exemption, its website says. And any conversation with the public or the media is supposed to be carefully rehearsed. [More]
We do need to bear in mind that this report is written under the banner of "The Progressive." Still, we shouldn't just dismiss it out of hand. Is it leftist hysteria? Or does this make some good points that we ignore at our peril?
Here's the InfraGard website.
Anybody here have any kind of direct knowledge about them?
[Via Steven L]