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.
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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.
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.
Skin color, religious and sexual orientation trump a sketchy mental health background.
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.
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?
A NICS check, a credit check and verification of citizenship....that’s about it.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 - - - - .
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.
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.
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/
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.
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?
not to mention flawed military full of wusses who just want to have a cushy office job
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.
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