The spokesperson for the American Police Force Becky Shays (formerly of Billings Gazette)

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is on the radio program that cannot be linked on DU (Alex Jones) live right now. She is only denying that the detention facility will be used to house Gitmo detainees. Pretty much everything else we know is confirmed by this spokesperson, including that they will not divulge their funding source, the facility will be used to house small-time criminals, and that a training facility for private security and law enforcement will be built. It is unclear whether the APF will patrol the town as a "police department". However, she says the town has the right to form its own police department. The main character, Captain Micheal (likely an alias), is a 14-count felon including con-jobs. Foriegners are involved.

Of course, Alex is inserting his own unique brand of explanation for all of this but the spokeswoman was definately compelling, even giving company car tours.

Edit: She is saying the decals were basically a sales prop to show the town what a Hardin Police Department could look like.

[maddezmom]

1. what do we know? Seems like there are a lot of different opinions about this whole scenario.

Are they Blackwater? Is it a hoax or a scam? :shrug:

[tuckessee]

2. Interesting that she refuses to name the "umbrella" company that owns APF.

She admits there is one but won't tell us who it is.

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Because it IS The Umbrella Corporation -

and you don't want to know what they are working on in the secret underground labs.

Is the code name for the site 'Raccoon City'?

[mod mom]

3. She filed a story on APF on Thurs then went to work for them the next day:

Reporter-Turned-APF-Flack: "I Made A Great Career Choice"
Zachary Roth | October 1, 2009, 12:07PM



Reporters who go to work in public relations often encounter a bit of skepticism from their former colleagues (see Wolffe, Richard.) But that skepticism may be especially pronounced when the company on whose behalf the former reporter is spinning is a mysterious private security force that has won a contract to take over an empty jail and won't reveal the source of its backing, and whose leader shows up in town wearing a military-style uniform, offering three Mercedes SUVs for use by local law enforcement, and dragging a long criminal record, including jail time for fraud, behind him.

Meet Becky Shay, the American Police Force's new director of public relations. Shay had been a reporter for 20 years, and had been covering the APF story for the Billings Gazette. She filed her last story Thursday night, apparently without telling her editors that she had been in negotiations for a job with the company she was covering. Then she abruptly quit the paper and announced that she had signed on with APF.

In an interview yesterday with Montana news channel KULR, Shay seemed to have no regrets. "Here I am feeling the best I've ever felt about myself," she said. "At a great point in my life."

Shay downplayed the spate of negative publicity her new employer has received in recent days, saying she had done her own vetting of APF and learned things the company won't say publicly. "I am absolutely positive I made a great career choice," she said.

What did it take to walk away from her reporting career? "My terms were: I don't want the moon and the stars, but I'd like to be able to see them from the patio," Shay said. KULR adds that she's making $60,000 dollars a year, and received a signing bonus, a brand new company car and help making the down payment on a new home.

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/10/reporter-turned-apf-flack_i_made_a_great_career_ch.php

[rvablue]

5. OK, this revelation is downright bizarre. It's like something out of a bad B movie script.

[mod mom]

7. Speaking of "B" a commenter @ TPM said she looks like the GOP staffer who carved a "B"

on her face. She kind of does!

I think she is probably naive and saw some $, and a car flashed in front of her and leaped at the chance.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Sold her soul for 60,000 a year and closing costs. That's pretty cheap.

[ProSense]

4. Here's all you need to know about APF

American Police Force Leader's Long Criminal Record

No Memory Hole for You!

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8. Yea. This whole episode is just weird. I can't believe the

state police and FBI haven't swarmed that town to get to the bottom of this situation.

[joeybee12]

10. Anyone ever read the Billings Gazette?

:puke: