[WCUSP] Fwd: The Brownshirts arrive! WOW!

[Odile Hugonot Haber]

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From: June Rusten <junear5575 at sbcglobal.net>
Date: Feb 9, 2008 4:48 PM
Subject: Fwd: The Brownshirts arrive!   WOW!
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WOW!  It will take years to know about all the secret, anti-civil
liberty groups running around.
June


From: John
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:00:49 -0800
Subject: [Johns_A_List] The Brownshirts arrive!










THE FBI'S SECRET PRIVATE DEPUTIES - WITH PERMISSION TO SHOOT TO KILL?


MATTHEW ROTHSCHILD, THE PROGRESSIVE - Today, more than 23,000
representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI
and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly
growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist
threats before the public does -- and, at least on one occasion,
before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the
government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than
that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told
me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial
law. InfraGard is "a child of the FBI," says Michael Hershman, the
chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members
Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting
firm. . .


InfraGard itself is still an FBI operation, with FBI agents in each
state overseeing the local InfraGard chapters. (There are now
eighty-six of them.) The alliance is a nonprofit organization of
private sector InfraGard members.


"We are the owners, operators, and experts of our critical
infrastructure, from the CEO of a large company in agriculture or high
finance to the guy who turns the valve at the water utility," says
Schneck, who by day is the vice president of research integration at
Secure Computing.


"At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector," the InfraGard
website states. "InfraGard chapters are geographically linked with FBI
Field Office territories."


In November 2001, InfraGard had around 1,700 members. As of late
January, InfraGard had 23,682 members, according to its website,
www.infragard.net, which adds that "350 of our nation's Fortune 500
have a representative in InfraGard."


To join, each person must be sponsored by "an existing InfraGard
member, chapter, or partner organization." The FBI then vets the
applicant. On the application form, prospective members are asked
which aspect of the critical infrastructure their organization deals
with. These include: agriculture, banking and finance, the chemical
industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications,
law enforcement, public health, and transportation. . .


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.


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