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Navy Yard shooting might have been prevented, Pentagon review shows Navy Yard shooting might have been prevented, Pentagon review shows
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A Pentagon review of the Sept. 16 mass shooting at the Navy Yard revealed “missed opportunities for intervention” that could have stopped gunman Aaron Alexis from keeping his security clearance and unfettered access to military facilities.A Pentagon review of the Sept. 16 mass shooting at the Navy Yard revealed “missed opportunities for intervention” that could have stopped gunman Aaron Alexis from keeping his security clearance and unfettered access to military facilities.
Results of internal probes and an independent review of the case released Tuesday portray a security clearance review system ill-equipped to screen “insider threats” in real time. The review cast blame on Navy officials and the information technology company that employed Alexis.Results of internal probes and an independent review of the case released Tuesday portray a security clearance review system ill-equipped to screen “insider threats” in real time. The review cast blame on Navy officials and the information technology company that employed Alexis.
A close examination of Alexis’ life, the main Department of Defense report concluded, demonstrates “a pattern of misconduct and disturbing behavior” that failed to raise enough alarms to yank the former sailors’ clearance and access to federal buildings. A close examination of Alexis’s life, the main Department of Defense report concluded, demonstrates “a pattern of misconduct and disturbing behavior” that failed to raise enough alarms to yank the former sailor’s clearance and access to federal buildings.
The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the security clearance review system for the federal workforce, signed off on Alexis’ clearance even though it “was missing critical information,” the review said. The Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the security clearance review system for the federal workforce, signed off on Alexis’s clearance even though it “was missing critical information,” the review said.
Alexis’ commanders, meanwhile, failed to record “multiple incidents of adverse behavior during his time on active duty” using the established mechanisms to track misconduct, it added. Alexis’s commanders, meanwhile, failed to record “multiple incidents of adverse behavior during his time on active duty” using the established mechanisms to track misconduct, it added.
As a result, managers at The Experts, Inc., the firm that employed Alexis, “had no insight into Alexis’ chronic personal conduct issues during his Navy service” when they recruited him for a position that required a security clearance, the report said. The firm, the Pentagon review contends, failed to “report behaviors indicating psychological instability” to the proper authorities. As a result, managers at The Experts Inc., the firm that employed Alexis, “had no insight into Alexis’s chronic personal conduct issues during his Navy service” when they recruited him for a position that required a security clearance, the report said. The firm, the Pentagon review contended, failed to “report behaviors indicating psychological instability” to the proper authorities.
The slaying of 12 Navy civilian and contractor personnel inside building 197 was the second deadliest mass shooting on a military facility, surpassed only by the attack carried out by an Army psychiatrist in Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009. The killing of 12 Navy civilians and contractors inside Building 197 was the second-deadliest mass shooting on a military facility, surpassed only by the attack carried out by an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood, Tex., in November 2009.
In response to the reviews, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for the implementation of a “continuous evaluation” system that would screen federal employees with access to classified information and sensitive facilities in real-time against records that might raise concerns about their state of mind or trustworthiness. In response to the reviews, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for the implementation of a “continuous evaluation” system that would screen federal employees with access to classified information and sensitive facilities in real time against records that might raise concerns about their state of mind or trustworthiness.
He also called for the creation of an “insider threat management and analytical center.”He also called for the creation of an “insider threat management and analytical center.”