http://www.alternet.org/rights/76388/

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.