The Latest: Tennessee shooter failed background check

WBAY.COM ^ | 17 JULY 2017 | AP

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

An Ohio company says the man who gunned down four Marines in Tennessee failed a background check in May 2013.

Todd Schneider, a spokesman for FirstEnergy Corp., says Muhammad Abdulazeez was conditionally hired as an engineer at a nuclear plant in east Cleveland. He spent 10 days there before he was let go because he failed a background check.

He would not say why Abdulazeez didn’t pass the screening process. Abdulazeez underwent general training on company procedures, but his access was limited during his brief employment.

[meatloaf]

He also learned the guards are armed ... and not just with handguns.

[Eagles6]

A radical mohammaden wants to cut your head off. A moderate mohammaden wants a radical mohammaden to cut your head off.

[hal ogen]

Also, a radical moozlum chops your head off with a rusty, dull blade. A non-radical moozlum uses a sharp knife. (Note: I realize there are NO non-radical moozlums)

[xzins]

Thanks for the ping, hoosiermama. Apparently, there are those in America who aren’t so blinded by their stupid ideology that they can detect red flags.

Otherwise, the city of Cleveland might shortly be burning a hole through the earth.

It also suggests looking at the employees of all our nuke plants of any variety, picking out potential jihadists, and transferring them to safer jobs in garment manufacturing.

[Ezekiel]

What the hell is wrong with a nuclear plant company that even interviews a guy named Mohammad.

Same thing wrong with an America that would elect a Hussein for POTUS. :-(

[Yardstick]

Savage was saying earlier that he also worked for TVA at one of the hydroelectric facilities, I think as an engineering intern. Not sure if that means one of the dams or not.

[fruser1]

I guess it’s not a good idea to jump up and say “allah akbhar” in the middle of your interview w/the security folks.

[hoosiermama]

Nuclear plants
Power grid in general
Water supply
Large dams
Airplane service
Etc etc

This PC behavior must go
Trust but verify has taken on a new meaning.

[Regulator]

He would not say why Abdulazeez didn’t pass the screening process

Why? The guy's dead. Is he worried about his privacy?!

[Twinkie]

“Same thing wrong with an America that would elect a Hussein for POTUS.” :-(

I seem to remember that he carefully hid his middle name from the electorate until after he was elected; then loused up on his first swearing in ceremony. (For the record, I have not voted for ANY Democrat for anything since Carter. After him, I voted for Reagan; & have NEVER looked back.) Carter was my first Presidential voting experience.):o(

[ExNewsExSpook]

And more specifically, what happened during that trip, to include people he associated with. I held a TS/SCI clearance during my spook days, with poly and various SAR/SAP programs as well—and their are FReepers on this board who were deeper into the secret squirrel stuff than I was.

If this guy was disqualified and forced out after 10 days, it was something serious and glaring. It takes at least 6 months to clear someone for SECRET level info, based (in part) on a national agency check. Clearing someone for TS/SCI takes a year to 18 months, sometimes longer. In my last civilian analyst job, we had a “rubber room” where folks sat awaiting clearance adjudication (and collected their regular salary).

The longest adjudication I ever saw involved a young engineer whose grandfather was a confidant of Stalin before he fell into disfavor and defected. He still had family in Russia (after the fall of communism) and it took three years to clear him. Running a security clearance check is a labor-intensive, time-consuming process. It’s certain the Tennessee terrorist completed his SF 86 before starting work, probably a month or two in advance. Determining he could not be cleared (at that relatively early stage) suggests there was something very disturbing in his past.

That may also explain his lack of employment after graduating from engineering school. Most EE grads have multiple job offers in hand; as far as I can tell, he did an internship with TVA before graduating and never worked as an electrical engineer, save that brief stint in Ohio.

The details of his security clearance adjudication will leak out in a few days, and we’ll learn (surprise, surprise) that his terror ties started well before this summer.

[Enten]

“More than likely the trip to Jordan triggered the failure.”
Just as likely it happened some Friday night at the mosque....trust none of them.

[tumblindice]

Was he photographed with any radical Islamic flags? I’m sure the left will have something to say about that ...

[Enten]

We spent lives and treasure saving the Kuwaities from Saddam Hussein...look what we get for helping muslims......same in Kosovo

[Charles Martel]

He spent ten days inside the plant, learned the layout and learned nuclear plant procedures. Now his friends know all that.

What the hell is wrong with a nuclear plant company that even interviews a guy named Mohammad.

Yep - I wasn't happy to see TVA on his recent work history. Just great, let these people get a good, close look at our hydroelectric power infrastructure. All the security vulnerabilities. Wonderful.

[IYAS9YAS]

Per other threads, the trip to Jordan was last year (2014). The job at the nuke plant was in 2013.

Thanks, I didn't have the timeline at hand.

[trebb]

It would have only been “workplace violence”.

vs. a "lone gunman".