Congress Finds Shortcuts, Eyes Cover-up In Handing Out Security Clearances (WA Navy Yard Shooting)

Washington Times ^ | Nov. 21, 2013 | Stephan Dinan

[SatinDoll]

The federal agency charged with screening employees for security clearance offered hints about how to cut corners,..could have led to the clearance the Navy Yard shooter needed to access the base, the House’s top investigator said.

Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said his staffers have come across verbal and written policies from the Office of Personnel Management that indicate the security clearance process was short-circuited in the case of Aaron Alexis, the Navy Yard shooter.

But Mr. Issa says OPM is refusing to turn over those documents and allowing them to be viewed only behind closed doors. If he doesn’t have the documents by noon Thursday, he said, he will issue a subpoena.

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In an earlier letter to Mr. Issa, OPM’s chief attorney said the agency was withholding documents because some of them contain sensitive business information and others, if made public, would lay out clear ways to defeat the clearance system.

OPM also hinted that it could claim to protect the documents by executive privilege because they implicate the White House budget office’s interests.

Spokeswoman Lindsey O’Keefe said Wednesday that the agency believes it has given access to Mr. Issa’s investigators.

[SatinDoll]

There is something terribly remiss in this case, and the government is trying to hide it.

The FBI actually edited surveillance videos and provided, supposedly, a blow-by-blow photographic portrayal of how Aaron Alexis did his grisly deeds, even showing Alexis entering the building BY HIMSELF.

So, if Alexis was by himself, who murdered the janitor, shot to death, in the side alley next to the building - an area Alexis never seems to have covered?

People who survived this shooting claim Alexis was not a "lone wolf"; he had at least one accomplice, so far unidentified to the public.

[driftdiver]

The process is broken and has been broken for many years. Its incredibly slow and horrendously expensive.

[Diogenesis]

Like the Boston Atrocity, this was PLANNED at the
top of the criminal Obama Regime, and stops were
removed to MAKE IT HAPPEN.

In Boston, the terrorists was waived into the USA
without even a passport in order to get the murders going.

[Diogenesis]

Like the Boston Atrocity, this was PLANNED at the
top of the criminal Obama Regime, and stops were
removed to MAKE IT HAPPEN.

In Boston, the terrorists was waived into the USA
without even a passport in order to get the murders going.

[silverleaf]

wth is a “verbal policy”?

some clerk telling another clerk to give the guy a clearance because he was ...... (fill in the blank with a minority group)?

[Hardastarboard]

If he doesn’t have the documents by noon Thursday, he said, he will issue a subpoena.

Which the OPM will ignore. Issa is looking into the right things. It seems he just doesn't have the horsepower to make the 0bama administration comply.

[Whenifhow]

Ping - FYI - of possible interest....

OPM also hinted that it could claim to protect the documents by executive privilege because they implicate the White House budget office’s interests.

Earlier in article:

“These policies include the failure to secure arrest records that would have alerted federal officials to his violent past,” Mr. Issa wrote in a letter, obtained by The Washington Times, which was sent Wednesday to OPM Director Katherine Archuleta. “Perhaps most disconcerting, though, is OPM’s indifference to obtaining all the relevant information about individuals under review for a security clearance.”