"Firemen are getting pussy for the first time in the history of fire or pussy."

DHS has been experimenting with a program in New York City aimed at training firefighters to gather intelligence while working, or as the AP describes "identify material or behavior that may indicate terrorist activities."



As the article notes, firefighters need no warrant to access private homes, buildings or institutions. By training this independent force, firefighters don't really need to respond to anyone, but have virtually unchecked power. Well that's not true, because after they gather the information they have to respond to DHS.

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The top contractor hired by the federal government in fy2007 is Akal Security, bringing in $103,986,622. About $63.5 million of that was earned from contracts that went without compeition. This does not mean that it was a particular industry that doesn't allow competition (Guard services by the way), there is a separate designation for money on uncompetable contracts, that 63.5 mil. was just from not allowing competition for contracts. but don't expect any sort of Democrat contention... Madame Speaker's district brought in $7,602,829, as a result of this one contractor.