Posted on 09/17/2013 12:27:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The former Navy reservist who killed 12 people in a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday had exhibited signs of mental illness dating back more than a decade, including a recent episode in which he complained about hearing voices and of people sending “vibrations to his body” to prevent him from sleeping, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.
Only a month ago, the gunman, Aaron Alexis, 34, was suffering from hallucinations so severe that he called the Newport Police Department in Rhode Island where he told officers he was on business.
When officers came to his hotel room on Aug. 7 at 6 a.m., Mr. Alexis told them that he had gotten into an argument with someone at an airport in Virginia. He said the person he had argued with “had sent three people to follow him and to keep him awake by talking to him and sending vibrations to his body” via a microwave machine, according to a police report.
Mr. Alexis had moved to three different hotels in a single night to elude strange voices and people he believed were sending the microwave vibrations....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why didn’t the police have him held for observation...hearing voices is fairly common with severe mental illness, not sure why they didn’t have him at least checked out.
My neighbor was in Las Vegas when she became confused and disoriented due to medication issues...the Casino she wandered into called police and the police had her admitted for evaluation, that is how it was discovered it was a medication issue. She was not hearing voices, etc, yet she was put on a mental health hold and hospitalized until it was sorted out.
Our fearless leaders and libs want this type of incident to be a “gun” issue when it is quite clearly a mental issue and will not be solved until that is addressed in some way.
At Navy's NUWC facility in Newport.
What is really going to suck for his employer is that they have not been doing background checks otherwise the arrests would have shown up. No way is he getting hired with those arrests on his record unless he has some really good paperwork explaining them away. Also, someone over in Government land has also been slacking on the job because you are supposed to recheck the clearance once someone switches from a military to a civilian clearance. The arrests are out there in NCIS, pretty sure you are supposed to check those.
Pretty much. If nose was relatively clean.
And how was someone at any given step in the process supposed to find out about his past problems?
To not do so would have been rayciss.
Drugs and violent video games is what its all about . .
It was about 3 to 4 months for my TS.
I had lived in three very different states during my childhood, so that might’ve been it.
A security clearance is granted to an individual and generally recognizes a maximum level of clearance. Exceptions include levels above compartmentalized access or when an individual is cleared for a certain type of data. The President of the United States may be given access to any government or military information that he requests if there is a proper “need to know”, even if he would not otherwise be able to normally obtain a security clearance were he not the President. Having obtained a certain level security clearance does not mean that one automatically has access to or is given access to information cleared for that clearance level in the absence of a demonstrated “need to know”.[7][dubious – discuss] The “need-to-know” determination is made by a ‘disclosure officer,’ who may work in the office of origin of the information. The specified “need to know” must be germane to the prospective user’s mission, or of necessity for the integrity of a specified security apparatus.
Controlled Unclassified[edit source]
“Controlled Unclassified” does not represent a clearance designation, but rather a clearance level at which information distribution is controlled. Controlled Unclassified designates information that may be illegal to distribute. This information is available when needed by government employees, such as Department of Defense (DoD) employees, but the designation signifies that the information should not be redistributed to users not designated to use it on an operational basis. For example, the organization and processes of an information-technology system may be designated Controlled Unclassified to users for whom the operational details of the system are non-critical.
Confidential[edit source]
Also known as a “public trust” clearance, this is hierarchically the first security clearance to get, typically requiring a few weeks to a few months of investigation. A Confidential clearance requires a NACLC investigation which dates back 7 years on the subject’s record and must be renewed (with another investigation) every 15 years. Applicants are required to complete federal Standard Form 85P.[8]
Secret[edit source]
A Secret clearance, also known as Collateral Secret or Ordinary Secret, requires a few months to a year to investigate, depending on the individual’s background. Some instances wherein individuals would take longer than normal to be investigated are many past residences, having residences in foreign countries, having relatives outside the United States, or significant ties with non-US citizens. Unpaid bills as well as criminal charges will more than likely disqualify an applicant for approval. However, a bankruptcy will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and is not an automatic disqualifier. Poor financial history is the number-one cause of rejection, and foreign activities and criminal record are also common causes for disqualification. A Secret clearance requires a NACLC, and a Credit investigation; it must also be re-investigated every 10 years.[9] Investigative requirements for DoD clearances, which apply to most civilian contractor situations, are contained in the Personnel Security Program issuance known as DoD Regulation 5200.2-R, at part C3.4.2
Top Secret[edit source]
Top Secret is a more stringent clearance. A Top Secret, or “TS”, clearance, is often given as the result of a Single Scope Background Investigation, or SSBI. Top Secret clearances, in general, afford one access to data that affects national security, counterterrorism/counterintelligence, or other highly sensitive data. There are far fewer individuals with TS clearances than Secret clearances.[10] A TS clearance can take as few as 3 to 6 months to obtain, but often it takes 6 to 18 months. The SSBI must be reinvestigated every 5 years.[9] In order to receive TS clearance, all candidates must pass an oral interview.
Compartmented[edit source]
As with TS clearances, Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) clearances are assigned only after one has been through the rigors of a Single Scope Background Investigation and a special adjudication process for evaluating the investigation. SCI access, however, is assigned only in “compartments”. These compartments are necessarily separated from each other with respect to organization, so that an individual with access to one compartment will not necessarily have access to another. Each compartment may include its own additional special requirements and clearance process. An individual may be granted access to, or read into, a compartment for any period of time.
Top secret clearance might be required to access:
Communications intelligence, a subset of SIGINT
Design or stockpile information about nuclear weapons
Nuclear targeting
Such compartmentalized clearances may be expressed as “John has a TS/SCI”, whereby all clearance descriptors are spelled out verbally. For example, the U.S. National Security Agency once used specialized terms such as “Umbra”,[11][12][13] This classification is reported to be a compartment within the “Special Intelligence” compartment of SCI.[14] The various NSA compartments have been simplified; all but the most sensitive compartments are marked “CCO”, meaning “handle through COMINT channels only”.
The U.S. Department of Defense establishes, separately from intelligence compartments, special access programs (SAP) when the vulnerability of specific information is considered exceptional and the normal criteria for determining eligibility for access applicable to information classified at the same level are not deemed sufficient to protect the information from unauthorized disclosure. The number of people cleared for access to such programs is typically kept low. Information about stealth technology, for example, often requires such access.
Area-specific clearances include:
L clearance (Department of Energy)
Q clearance (Department of Energy)
Yankee White (working with the President and Vice President)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_clearance
SSSSHHHHH! That’s classified.
Also if the Navy would have given him a dishonorable discharge as they should have it would have precluded him from legally buying a gun or possibly passing the employer background check.
Yep, i had secret for 19K Armor Crewman (M1A1). I got the feeling they don’t do hardly anything as far as background check for it.
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