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Navy Yard shootings expose a flawed security clearance system
The Washington Times ^ | 18 September 2013 | Rowan Scarborough and Shaun Waterman

Posted on 09/18/2013 5:22:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java

The government system that provided Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis a “secret” security clearance has been beset by problems.

A “secret” clearance requires a far less intrusive investigation into a person’s background than that for a “top secret” or higher security designation. The Government Accountability Office notes that it costs the government $4,000 to conduct a background check for a top-secret clearance, but only $260 for a secret clearance.

In 2012, the GAO reported that the Defense Department and other agencies “will continue to risk making security clearance determinations that are inconsistent or at improper levels” because of there is no single set of guidelines to determine who gets or doesn’t get a clearance.

The office of the director of national intelligence (DNI) was supposed to set up unified standards, but had not when the GAO report was issued.

“The process has not been completed yet,” DNI spokesman Gene Barlow said Tuesday, adding that the agency is working on one guideline.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aaronalexis; navyyard; securitybreach; usnavy
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1 posted on 09/18/2013 5:22:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java

To the title:

> Navy Yard shootings expose a flawed security clearance system

No they don’t.

The Navy Yard and Fort Hood massacres reveal the utter treachery and treason of Billy Jeff Clinton in disarming military personnel on their own bases.


2 posted on 09/18/2013 5:24:23 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: COBOL2Java

if you only charge $260 for a secret clearance, and give it to EVEYONE you have all the data you would ever want to oppress the masses

AND THEY PAY YOU !

what a country.


3 posted on 09/18/2013 5:25:18 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: Westbrook

Skin color, religious and sexual orientation trump a sketchy mental health background.


4 posted on 09/18/2013 5:26:29 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Mr. K

All they really do for a secret clearance is check your credit and criminal background.

The arrest should have resulted in him losing his clearance. Would be interesting to know if his employer sponsoring the clearance knew of the arrests.


5 posted on 09/18/2013 5:26:39 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: COBOL2Java
I'm sure they'll do a much better job when they give 20 million illegals without any documents amnesty.


6 posted on 09/18/2013 5:26:53 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: COBOL2Java
Navy Yard shootings expose a flawed security clearance system

Not only that, but the immediate security - i.e. how he got his weapons on base? Could it be that rent a cops are not really a very good idea?

7 posted on 09/18/2013 5:27:45 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
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To: COBOL2Java

A NICS check, a credit check and verification of citizenship....that’s about it.


8 posted on 09/18/2013 5:28:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: COBOL2Java

When I got my Top Secret Clearance for the USAF SAC in 72 the FBI interview my 1st grade teacher and the mothers of every girl I dated. As a teen. Now the give out social clearances.


9 posted on 09/18/2013 5:29:00 AM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I saw his car being towed OFF the base. I assume that he drove onto the base like everybody else.

IOW, he could have had an RPG in the trunk, if he had an RPG.


10 posted on 09/18/2013 5:29:44 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I assume that he drove onto the base like everybody else.

We are actively engaged in a War on Terror, despite what the muzzie brotherhood usurper 0bama says, and within a week of 9/11, yet they didn't search his car?

Could it be that since he was in "a protected class" that it would've been racist to enforce security? After all, if 0bama had an older nutjob son, he would look just like Alexis! I'm sure that is solace to the dozen families now missing loved ones. /sarc

11 posted on 09/18/2013 5:36:18 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
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To: COBOL2Java

It doesn’t cost the government a damn dime to do this. They are already paid salaries and sit at desks all day doing god knows what. What we are witnessing is total incompetence and disregard for the law.


12 posted on 09/18/2013 5:38:29 AM PDT by refermech
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To: COBOL2Java; markomalley; SoFloFreeper; texas booster; Kaslin; All

The wussification of America has many parents.

One such parent is Impeached Bill “Zipper-Boy” Clinton who signed, in 1993, the Exec. Order to ban guns inside buildings on US Military posts.

To put all this in perspective, just ask this question: “What would General George Patton do?”

The surviving families from the massacres at Ft. Hood and The Navy Yard would like to know - - - - .


13 posted on 09/18/2013 5:48:25 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Has anyone been able to discern how he was able to get on base? It is my understanding that without a CAC isssued by DoD, he would not be able to waltz on base. Both his reservist and contractor CACs would have been expired.


14 posted on 09/18/2013 5:53:31 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: The Sons of Liberty

On an average day on any US military base, 99.9% of cars are waved on through if the driver has the correct windshield sticker and ID card. The “random” searches are so rare as to be meaningless, unless some uber-terror-alert is going on. Ordinarily, you are waved right in.


15 posted on 09/18/2013 5:53:46 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: KC_Conspirator

I want to know how his move from Texas to that exact job on a base full of the Navy’s top brass was arranged.

Paging Professor Raoul X.

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/bracken-professor-raoul-x/


16 posted on 09/18/2013 5:55:02 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I found my answer, he was still employed as a contractor, so he would have been granted access to the base, either by CAC or visitor pass. However, I do agree that some people with mental health issues need to have their secret clearances removed.


17 posted on 09/18/2013 6:02:04 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: COBOL2Java

Had to laugh at all the Libs out there yesterday demanding background checks for long guns.

This guy got a secret clearance to enter a secure military facility. What on earth makes them think anything would have turned-up in a background check to stop his buying a shotgun?


18 posted on 09/18/2013 6:05:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: COBOL2Java

not to mention flawed military full of wusses who just want to have a cushy office job


19 posted on 09/18/2013 6:13:26 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Cars are rarely searched. And bags are searched in cars exactly zero times, from my experience.

And I’ve been to that building, guard post inside the entrance, and that’s it. No magnetometer. No x-ray belt. Just a rentacop or two.


20 posted on 09/18/2013 6:22:07 AM PDT by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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