Navy Yard Shooting Proves Failure of NSA

Related: Last Look Around the Washington Naval Yard 

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"Navy Yard shooting exposes checkered system of vetting; Sheer numbers of workers, need for access swamp US" by Jack Gillum and Eric Tucker |  Associated Press, September 20, 2013

WASHINGTON — The government’s sprawling system of background checks and security clearances is so unreliable it’s virtually impossible to adequately investigate the nearly 5 million Americans who have them and make sure they can be trusted with access to military and sensitive civilian buildings, an Associated Press review found.

Then the NSA SPYING PROGRAM and the TOTAL $URVEILLANCE GRID has FAILED, FAILED, FAILED! They CAN'T EVEN INVE$TIGATE THOSE CLO$E$T to the $ECURITY APPARATU$ -- or so were are told! 

Of course, the AN$WER will be MORE of the $AME FAILED $OLUTION$, and WHO BENEFIT$?  If they can't investigate 5 million people, why are they collecting every communication and movement of 330 million of us?

And remember, these are usually military or defense contractor connected employees, the ones on which the GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALREADY HAVE LOADS of INFORMATION!

You know, it's funny, because I thought I caught a whiff of something off to my left.

Case after case has exposed problems for years, including recent instances in which workers for the government have been implicated in mass shootings, espionage, and damaging disclosures of national secrets.

That's what is at the bottom of this, regardless of what you or I think happened at the Navy Yard. This is about finding snow(den) flakes in the $ecurity $y$tem.

In the latest violence, the Navy Yard gunman passed at least two background checks and kept his military security clearance despite serious red flags about violent incidents and psychological problems.

The AP’s review — based on interviews, documents, and other data — found the government overwhelmed with the task of investigating the lives of so many prospective employees and federal contractors and periodically reexamining them. 

What an ABSOLUTE CROCK of CRAP when they could just as easily go over to the NSA like the FBI, DEA, CIA, and every body else does! 

This is such a STEAMING STINKER of BACKFILL, folks, it REALLY CALLS INTO QUESTION what went on down there. 

Can you believe in a media that is simply a mouthpiece with poop coming out of it like a meat grinder?

The system focuses on identifying applicants who could be blackmailed or persuaded to sell national secrets, not commit acts of violence. 

Then how come so many dual national Israelis have infiltrated the apparatus?

And it relies on incomplete databases and a network of private vetting companies that earn hundreds of millions of dollars to perform checks but whose investigators are sometimes criminally prosecuted themselves for lying about background interviews that never occurred.

I don't really know what to $ay, readers. 

‘‘It’s too many people to keep track of with the resources that they have, and too many people have access to information,’’ said Mark Riley, a Maryland lawyer who represents people who have been denied clearances or had them revoked.

You know what? It is time to DISMANTLE this $Y$TEM that is BUILT UPON UNHOLY and DAMNABLE LIES! You can $ee what the an$wer is going to be, right? More $carce tax dollars shoveled into the total $urveillance $ociety!

The Pentagon knows there are problems. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has ordered a sweeping review of all military security and employee screening programs. ‘‘Something went wrong,’’ he said.

Separately, Congress has asked the inspector general at the US Office of Personnel Management to investigate how a clearance was awarded to Aaron Alexis, the Navy IT contractor who killed 12 people Monday inside a Washington Navy Yard building before he died. Just weeks ago, the Navy had warned employees under its new ‘‘insider threat’’ program that all personnel were responsible for reporting suspicious activity that could lead to terrorism, espionage, or ‘‘kinetic actions’’ — a military euphemism for violence.

We get a lot of euphemisms in the intelligence operation psyop known as a morning newspaper, as they once again throw the inside job at you and laugh in our faces. I'm no longer amused, nor fooled!

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The Navy Yard itself reopened for normal operations on Thursday, but it was hardly business as usual. Returning employees said they felt unsettled. Workers who streamed by the red brick wall of the Navy Yard in the early morning sun said it was too soon to talk about the week’s violence.

FBI Director James Comey said investigators were still working through video evidence, but fresh details of the shootings were emerging.

Related: Comey Confirmed 

He defended the spying and approved of torture. Both failed.

Comey said Alexis entered the Navy Yard in a vehicle, parked in a deck across from Building 197, entered carrying a bag, went into a fourth-floor bathroom and came out carrying a Remington 870 shotgun. The shotgun was cut down at both ends — the stock sawed off and the barrel sawed off a bit — and ammunition was stowed in a cargo pocket of his pants.

The FBI's version and a likely cover up, unless you want to trust Comey, this government, or mouthpiece media. 

As for me, I don't know what happened and don't really have time to get into it. I have a lot more I want to cover today.

Alexis started to shoot people on the fourth floor with no discernible pattern, Comey said. Alexis also went down to the lobby, shot a security guard, and took the guard’s handgun, continuing his shooting until he was cornered by a team of officers and killed after a sustained gunfire exchange.

Then why was the whole city shut down? Crowd conditioning mind manipulation?

Alexis had worked for a Florida-based IT consulting firm called The Experts. He had been refreshing Pentagon computer systems, holding a military security clearance that would have expired five years from now.

Alexis’s employer said it had had no personnel problems with him and two separate background checks revealed only a traffic violation. But there were trouble signs below the surface. Public records databases used in those kinds of searches can be spotty repositories of arrest records, court dockets, and other information.

Then why didn't they just call over to the NSA? WTF?

‘‘The only thing that the security-clearance process is intended to protect is the security of the United States,’’ said Shlomo Katz, a government contracts lawyer who has been issued a clearance himself and is an expert on the process. ‘‘The system is not designed to protect the lives of our co-workers, and therefore I don’t view it as a failure of the system.’’ 

So says Shlomo. I'm not evening going to type it today, but you (rhymes with) know what I'm getting at.

Alexis’s employer — and possibly the government — missed how, in September 2010, Alexis’s neighbor called police in Fort Worth, Texas, after she said she was nearly struck by a bullet shot from his downstairs apartment.

The government "possibly" missed it, as if they are not as culpable as the employer? So sayeth my mouthpiece!

When police confronted Alexis about the shooting, he said he was cleaning his gun when it accidentally discharged. Alexis was arrested on suspicion of discharging a firearm within city limits.

The checks also missed how, six years earlier, Seattle police arrested Alexis for shooting the tires of another man’s vehicle in what he later described as an angry ‘‘blackout.’’

No charges were filed in either incidents.

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Hard to believe he was just down the road in Raynham:

"Accused D.C. killer stayed at Raynham Buddhist facility" by Jennette Barnes |  Globe Correspondent,  September 19, 2013

Eleven days after Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis told Newport, R.I., police that he heard voices speaking to him through the walls of a hotel room, he stopped at a Thai Buddhist temple in Raynham and stayed overnight in the town, a temple official said Thursday.

Oh, the religious aspect is brought back out again, for whatever it is worth.

Eang Tan, a member of the construction committee overseeing a new temple building, said that a monk at the temple, the NMR Meditation Center, told him that Alexis, who spoke Thai very well, walked into the temple on Aug. 18 and asked to stay overnight. The visit was about a month before Alexis killed 12 people in a shooting rampage on Monday in Washington D.C.

Alexis’ request to stay was denied: Only monks are allowed to stay at the temple overnight. Though Mounlak “Connie” Nosaphangthong, a volunteer who cooks for the monks, said in an interview at the temple that anyone can go there to get help when looking for a place to sleep. When the monk asked Alexis why he could not stay at a hotel, he replied that noises would bother him, Tan said in an e-mail. Alexis then asked if he could sleep in his car in the temple parking lot, according to Tan.

Tan said the monk felt bad for Alexis and allowed him to sleep at a former Raynham school that the temple rents from the town.

The next day Alexis came to say thank you and goodbye, Tan said. The monk, “as usual,” would not have asked personal questions, Tan said.

Raynham police are cooperating with the FBI, according to Selectman Joseph Pacheco, chairman of the town’s governing board. He said authorities believe Alexis posed no threat to the public while he was in Raynham.

Raynham Police Chief James Donovan did not respond to request for comment Thursday, and the police department referred calls to the FBI.

Lindsay Godwin, an FBI spokesperson in the Washington field office, said she was aware of reports of Alexis’s stop in Raynham, and that investigators were following up on the information.

The shooting has drawn attention to Alexis’s past, which includes time recently spent in Massachusetts and Rhode Island....

On Aug. 28, he visited a Veterans Affairs hospital in Washington to ask for a refill of his sleeping medication....

How interesting that I noticed the missing religion and prescription pharmaceutical angles yesterday -- and now they appear in the Globe.

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