SWAT Team Told to ‘Stand Down’ During Navy Shooting Stonewalled by Authorities - why the hell aren't folks outraged by this ? Who gave that Order - and who did they discuss the stand down order with before issuing it ? Why was the leader of CERT replaced without explantion , why have four members applied for temporary leave , why has a stone wall been put in place ? Anyone think this isn't just SLIGHTLY ODD ? Taking a further look at Aaron Alexis's claim to the Rhode Island Police that he was being stalked and targeted by a microwave device sending vibrations through his body - is there something to his claim , any scientific support ? The answer may surprise.....

http://www.infowars.com/first-responders-radios-failed-during-navy-yard-shooting/

( Add failed communications to last week's oddities regarding the US Naval Seam Communications center shootings ... )

First Responders: Radios Failed During Navy Yard Shooting

Technical snafu adds extra layer of mystery to Navy Yard shooting’s questionable events

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
Sept. 21, 2013

In a report that has gone virtually unnoticed in the mainstream press, D.C. police and firefighters who first arrived to assist at the Washington Navy Yard earlier this week say they were frustrated when their radios failed during inspection of the building, adding yet another strange development to the already questionable set of circumstances that took place that day.

Navy Yard building: Emergency responders say radios lost contact inside building.

A union representative for the first responders said, “Initially, officers found that their radios were working. But as they ventured deeper into the building where the shooting took place, their equipment stopped functioning,” according to a report from The Hill.

Instead, officers were forced to rely on their cell phones to communicate with one another, a detail the chairman of the Fraternal Order of Police Naval District Washington Labor Committee, Anthony Meely, says was “unnecessary and sad.”

“They had to use their cellphone to just call out and tell them what’s going on,” Meely said.

Meely said he was disgusted by news that the team had to use cell phones, but that faulty radios were “a known issue” on the base, and that they were notorious for not being able to function properly within buildings, in addition to having batteries that could never sustain charge.

“…what could they do if the radios weren’t working?” asked Meely, adding “…that was the only way for them to call and get them some help.”

Additionally, firefighters were having the same problems with their radios. “The incident commander from Naval District Washington was not able to communicate from his position inside the building to fire units outside of the building. He was not able to communicate with his subordinate units outside of the building,” Greg Russell, president of the National Capital Federal Firefighters, said.

Although this may merely have been a technical snafu, it adds an extra layer of mystery to an already convoluted story that has only gotten stranger.

Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that alleged shooter Aaron Alexis believed people were trying to harm him with microwave radiation and had reportedly told Veterans’ Affairs physicians he was hearing voices and being followed.

On Thursday, we learned Alexis was found with firearms carved with messages, including one that read, “My E-L-F Weapon,” a message which the Washington Post wrote generally stands for “extremely low frequency,” which has led many to speculate he may have been a victim of targeted government mind control.

We also reported earlier this week that D.C.’s Containment Emergency Response Team (CERT) was mere minutes away from the shooting when it took place, yet when they arrived they were told by a commanding officer to leave the scene.

The CERT team’s leader has since been replaced and members of the team have not been questioned or debriefed as to why the stand down order was given, despite a source telling the BBC that the CERT team is typically debriefed “right away, at the very least the following day.”

and how did Rollie Chance figure into this shooting....


http://www.infowars.com/rollie-chance-misidentified-as-navy-yard-shooter-demands-media-accountability/

Rollie Chance, misidentified as Navy Yard shooter, demands media accountability

Tom Jackman
Washington Post
Sept. 21, 2013

Rollie Chance was home in Stafford, about 40 miles south of Washington, when he began watching the news about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard Monday morning. A retired Navy lieutenant, he had worked in Building 197 on the fourth floor and was worried that some of his friends and former colleagues might have been killed.

Then shortly after noon, he got a phone call from someone who said they were with ABC News. “They asked me if I knew Rollie Chance,” Rollie Chance said. “Then they said, ‘Did you know Rollie Chance was the perpetrator of the Washington Navy Yard shootings?’”

Chance, 50, thought the call was a joke. He told the caller, “I guarantee you 100 percent Rollie Chance didn’t do it,” and hung up.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rollie-chance-misidentified-as-navy-yard-shooter-demands-media-accountability/2013/09/20/7226087e-221b-11e3-966c-9c4293c47ebe_story.html

( How and why was Chance's ID card found near Aaron Alexis - he has retired and hadn't been in the building since October ? Who were the law enforcement officials who fingered Rollie Chance and what was their ID based upon ? And wasn't Mr chance initially identified as having been fired ? )

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Moments later, FBI agents arrived at his home. Soon after, reporters began piling up at the curb. And on Twitter, reporters for both NBC and CBS named Chance as the now-deceased killer. CBS also identified Chance on national radio. ABC, which called Chance, did not report any connection.

The two network news outlets quickly retracted their tweets and CBS corrected its radio report. But Chance is wondering how he will ever erase the accusatory Internet trail that led to his door and is trying to work through days of anxiety for his family, including his 9-year-old daughter, whom he held out of school for a day.

“Verify before you vilify,” Chance implored in an interview Friday with his lawyer Mark Cummings. He joined a list of innocent people wrongly connected to high-profile crimes, to include the brother of the Newtown school shooter, two Boston men wrongly linked to the Boston Marathon bombings, and security guard Richard Jewell at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing.

“We reported what we learned from law enforcement sources and it was corrected within minutes,” said Sonya McNair, senior vice president of communications for CBS News. NBC News officials said in a statement: “We received misinformation from reliable sources and immediately corrected.”

Chance’s name filtered to the media because one of his identification cards reportedly was found near the body of Aaron Alexis, the man actually responsible for the shootings. Chance said he has no idea how that happened, and that he had not been in Building 197 since October, when he turned in two military access cards to his division head and went on administrative leave from his civilian job as an engineering technician.

“I don’t know Aaron Alexis,” Chance said. “I’d never heard of Aaron Alexis. I’ve never met Aaron Alexis.”

He said FBI agents questioned him thoroughly, then searched his home with his consent. “I was trying to be cooperative,” he said.

Chance is a Brooklyn native who rose from enlisted man to lieutenant in a 24-year Navy career, serving on amphibious assault ships such as the USS Nassau and the USS Bataan, before retiring from active duty in 2008. He then worked four more years as a civilian engineer in Naval Sea Systems Command at the Navy Yard. “I would never think about hurting my friends, those guys in Building 197,” he said. “I worked with them for years.”

He said if he had falsely accused someone in the Navy, he would be held accountable. “The media should have a certain amount of accountability,” he said.

Chance worried about his prospects in seeking a job, with employers checking him on Google. “To my knowledge, there’s no way to scrub this,” he said.

Chance said he was speaking publicly because “I don’t want anyone to go through this. I wouldn’t want my worst enemies to go through what I went through.”

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http://www.infowars.com/swat-team-told-to-stand-down-during-navy-shooting-stonewalled-by-authorities/

SWAT Team Told to ‘Stand Down’ During Navy Shooting Stonewalled by Authorities

Unit’s leader replaced, others apply for leave

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 20, 2013

Members of a Washington SWAT team who were told to stand down during the Navy Yard shooting have been stonewalled by authorities, while the leader of the elite unit has been replaced.

Image: Containment and Emergency Response Team (CERT)

As we reported earlier this week, the highly trained Containment and Emergency Response Team (CERT) was just minutes away from Building 197 of the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command when Aaron Alexis began his rampage.

Being the only personnel on site armed with long guns, the CERT team was asked by an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD to aid in hunting down the active shooter.

However, when the CERT Team radioed their superiors to obtain permission to go ahead with the operation, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene.

The CERT team members are expert marksmen and it’s almost inevitable that their involvement in neutralizing the gunman would have saved lives. By the time armed police arrived 30 minutes later, Alexis had already killed 12 victims.

“I don’t think it’s a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved if we were allowed to intervene,” a Capitol Police source told the BBC.

Instead of receiving answers as to why they were ordered to stand down, the CERT team has been stonewalled by authorities.

“Days after the shooting, none of the officers has been questioned by officials or investigators from a special panel that was convened on Wednesday,” reports BBC News, despite standard operating procedure directing that they be debriefed immediately.

The department has also replaced the leader of the unit with no explanation and four members of the SWAT Team have also applied for applied for temporary leave, according to the report.

Recall Aaron Alexis complaining to the police about being targeted by a microwave device ?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/18/navy-yard-shooting-aaron-alexis/2832451/

WASHINGTON — Officials at the Navy base in Newport, R.I., failed to forward a report from local police last month that Monday's alleged killer of 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard had complained about hearing voices coming from the ceiling of his hotel, a Pentagon official told USA TODAY.

Aaron Alexis, 34, was questioned by Newport police on Aug. 7 at a local hotel room. Alexis, a Navy civilian contractor working on a job at the Newport base, told officers that unknown people were trying to prevent him from sleeping and sending "vibrations" through his body. Newport police then contacted base security to alert them about Alexis.

"There is no indication that the information went beyond the naval security force (at base)," the official said, adding that more details could emerge as the investigation continues. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because officials were not authorized to speak publicly.

Base security "did not deem Alexis to pose a threat to himself or others based on his alleged conduct at the hotel that night," according to another Navy source who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the case. That's why, the second official said, the base security did not inform Navy officials in Washington or elsewhere.

The Naval Station Newport authorities did not contact Alexis' employer — a Fort Lauderdale-based information technology firm called The Experts — or other Navy authorities, said the first official, who added that the information remains preliminary and could change.

The report by Newport Police Sgt. Frank Rosa said he called local base security. "Based on the Naval Base implications and the claim that the involved subject, one (redacted) was 'hearing voices' I made contact with on duty Naval Station Police (redacted)," the report said. "I advised (redacted) of the report and the claims by Alexis. I then faxed (redacted) a copy of the report. (redacted) advised me that (redacted) would follow up on this subject and determine if he is in fact a naval base contractor."

Federal authorities investigating are looking closely at the Newport incident for any indication about what may have motivated Alexis.

"Given that it is so close in time to this week's events, there is an active fact-finding effort going on, leads have been farmed out to determine — if it is possible — what led up to this,'' said a law enforcement official, who also confirmed that Alexis left behind scratches on the shotgun used in the Navy Yard shooting that read "better off this way" and "my ELF." The official is not authorized to comment publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.

Civilian federal law enforcement authorities were not notified of the Newport incident at the time, but the official said a report of a mentally disturbed individual — on its own — would likely not have been shared with the FBI in the normal course of business.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel acknowledged that there appeared to be "red flags" in Alexis' background that were not acted on.

"Should we have picked them up? Why didn't we? How could we? All those questions need to be answered," Hagel said. "Obviously something went wrong."

Hagel said he has ordered reviews to examine the process for awarding security clearances and to look at base security.

Alexis had a secret security clearance from his time in the Navy Reserve. Such a clearance usually lasts 10 years, unless adverse information comes to the attention of his employer. Within the 10 years, there is no requirement to update a security clearance by checking with crime databases.

"The longer clearances go without review, there's some jeopardy to that," Hagel said.

The failure to raise an alarm about Alexis' behavior shows a breakdown in the system for granting clearances, said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who chairs a panel on contracting oversight.

"This is one of the things that's most troubling about this tragedy — that there would be police involvement with a military contractor where clearly he was hallucinating, and that we somehow don't have a mechanism for that information to be quickly and effectively communicated in a way that the clearance can be removed," McCaskill said. "At the very least, we've got to figure out those systems."

Alexis had contact last month with another government agency — the Veterans Affairs Department — to complain about insomnia. He went to a VA emergency room in Providence, R.l., on Aug. 23 and another in Washington on Aug. 28, according to a statement from the department. He blamed his sleeplessness on his work schedule and was given small amounts of medication on the visits.

"On both occasions, Mr. Alexis was alert and oriented, and was asked by VA doctors if he was struggling with anxiety or depression, or had thoughts about harming himself or others, which he denied," the statement says.

The failure to forward the information from the Newport police echoes two cases in 2009 in which law enforcement officials did not act on information that could have stopped two incidents — the Nov. 5, 2009, murder of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit on Dec. 25.

FBI anti-terrorism officials did not alert military authorities that Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood killer, had sent numerous e-mails to terrorist leader Anwar al-Awlaki for almost a year leading up to the Fort Hood attack. In the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the man convicted of trying to blow up the Northwest Airlines flight, officials did not forward information provided to U.S. officials in Nigeria by Abdulmutallab's father that his son was in Yemen and had extreme views.

Another senator chastised the Navy for another breakdown in communication.

"Clearly, the system did not work and this is not the first example of a breakdown," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who chairs the committee's personnel subcommittee. "We need to fully examine this issue, not just looking backwards, but also forwards, and fully address solutions that will protect personal and national security."

Alexis died in a shootout with police after he gunned down 12 employees at the Navy Yard, authorities have said.

Alexis had a history of encounters with law enforcement over firearms. Authorities in Texas in 2010 arrested him for firing a round through his apartment ceiling. He was not charged. In 2004 in Seattle, he shot the rear tires of a construction worker's car after an altercation.

Despite those incidents, Alexis received and maintained a secret security clearance during his tenure in the Navy Reserve from 2008 to 2011.

And note the exclusion in the US Today story of an alleged microwave device .......... Reuters did add that detail....

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/17/us-usa-navy-shooting-idUSBRE98F0DN20130917

(Reuters) - Rhode Island police warned the U.S. Navy last month that Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis had reported "hearing voices," raising further questions about how he gained security clearance at the complex where he went on a shooting rampage.

Officials say Alexis, a Navy contractor and former Navy reservist, opened fire at the Naval Sea Systems Command on Monday, killing 12 people before police shot him dead.

The shooting - a mile and a half from the U.S. Capitol and three miles from the White House - sent shockwaves through Washington.

The Pentagon said it would review security at military installations around the world and the White House promised to review standards for federal government contractors.

A Defense Department Inspector General's report published on Tuesday revealed security lapses that allowed 52 convicted felons to gain access to Navy facilities because budget cuts had undermined vetting.

Meanwhile, the U.S. capital paused to remember the victims, aged 46 to 73, who included retirees, parents and a bird lover.

Police in Newport, Rhode Island, were so concerned about Alexis' behavior on a business trip there in August that they alerted Navy police.

Alexis told police he believed people were following him and "sending vibrations into his body," according to a Newport police report.

He told police that he had twice moved hotels to avoid the noise he heard coming through the floor and the ceiling of his rooms, and that the people following him were using "some sort of microwave machine" to prevent him from sleeping.

"Based on the naval base implications and the claim that the involved subject, one (Aaron Alexis) was 'hearing voices,' I made contact with the on-duty Naval Station police," a Newport police officer wrote, adding that he faxed his report of the incident to Navy police.

The Newport police report said Navy police had promised to check if Alexis was in fact a naval base contractor.

Asked for comment, a spokesman said the Navy was looking into the matter, without confirming any details.

In addition, CNN reported that Alexis had contacted two Veterans Administration hospitals recently and was believed to be seeking psychological help.

"Initial reports indicate that this is an individual who may have had some mental health problems," U.S. President Barack Obama told Spanish-language network Telemundo.

"The fact that we do not have a firm enough background check system is something that makes us more vulnerable to these kinds of mass shootings." [ID:nL2N0HD27Y]

The Navy gave Alexis an honorable discharge despite a series of eight to 10 misconduct charges, ranging from traffic offenses to disorderly conduct.

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Using a valid pass as an information technology contractor with a private company, Alexis entered the Naval Sea Systems Command headquarters with a shotgun - bought legally in Virginia - and gained access to a handgun after he started firing, officials said.

He started picking off victims in a cafeteria from a fourth-floor atrium, witnesses said. Eight people were hurt, three with gunshot wounds, before Alexis was killed in a gun battle with police.

A U.S. defense official said a National Agency Check, a type of background check, was completed on Alexis in August 2007 and he was determined eligible to handle "secret" material in March 2008. Such clearances are valid for 10 years, meaning Alexis had no need to renew his.

Alexis' employer said it had enlisted a service to make what appeared to be two standard, employment background checks on him over the past year, finding only a traffic violation while twice confirming his "secret"-level security clearance with the U.S. Defense Department.

"The latest background check and security clearance confirmation were in late June of 2013 and revealed no issues other than one minor traffic violation," The Experts, an information technology company, said in a statement.

Alexis was arrested on September 4, 2010, in Fort Worth, Texas, on a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm. He was also arrested in Seattle in 2004 for shooting out a constructionworker's car tires in an anger-fueled "blackout" triggered by perceived "disrespect," police said. In 2008, he was cited for disorderly conduct in DeKalb County, Georgia, when he was kicked out of a club for damaging furnishings and cursing.

In each case, the charges were dropped.

People who knew Alexis said they were shocked by the shooting, describing him as a lover of Thai culture who worshipped at a Buddhist temple in Texas, although one acquaintance told reporters he had an unnatural affection for violent video games.

The Navy Yard was closed to all but essential personnel on Tuesday. Military police were stationed at the four entrances, checking the identifications of the employees who were being allowed back in. Other personnel milled around outside, hoping to retrieve cars that remained locked inside the gates.

"I've never ever felt unsafe at this place," said David Berlin, a civilian who works at the Navy Yard as an assistant program manager building weapons systems. "If someone wants to skirt the rules, they can do that, but you trust your colleagues."

About that microwave device - was Aaron crazy or might he have been onto something ? 

Report: Nonlethal Weapons Could Target Brain, Mimic Schizophrenia

• BY SHARON WEINBERGER
• 02.18.08
• 6:14 AM

Of all the crazy, bizarre less-lethal weapons that have been proposed, the use of microwaves to target the human mind remains the most disturbing. The question has always been: is this anything more than urban myth? We may not have the final answer to this question, but a newly declassified Pentagon report, Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons , obtained by a private citizen under the Freedom of Information Act, provides some fascinating tidbits on a variety of exotic weapons ideas.

Among those discussed are weapons that could disrupt the brain, as well as my longtime obsession, the "Voice of God" device, which creates voices in people’s heads. As the report notes, "Application of the microwave hearing technology could facilitate a private message transmission. It may be useful to provide a disruptive condition to a person not aware of the technology. Not only might it be disruptive to the sense of hearing, it could be psychologically devastating if one suddenly heard ‘voices within one’s head.’"

Voices in your head disturbing? Heck, yeah, considering it’s something most people associate with schizophrenia. The age-old question is whether such a weapon is possible. According to the report, it’s not only possible, it’s already been demonstrated in crude form:

Because the frequency of the sound heard is dependent on the pulse characteristics of the RF energy, it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except hat it could only be heard within a person’s head. In one experiment, communication of the words from one to ten using "speech modulated" microwave energy was successfully demonstrated. Microphones next to the person experiencing the voice could not pick up the sound. Additional development of this would open up a wide range of possibilities.

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This technology requires no extrapolation to estimate its usefulness. Microwave energy can be applied at a distance, and the appropriate technology can be adapted from existing radar units. Aiming devices likewise are available but for special circumstances which require extreme specificity, there may be a need for additional development. Extreme directional specificity would be required to transmit a message to a single hostage surrounded by his captors. Signals can be transmitted long distances (hundreds of meters) using current technology. Longer distances and more sophisticated signal types will require more bulky equipment, but it seems possible to transmit some of the signals at closer ranges using man-portable equipment.

If voices in your head aren’t disturbing enough, the report also goes on to theorize about a microwave weapon that could use electromagnetic pulses to disrupt the brain’s functioning. It would work through "a rhythmic-activity synchronization of brain neurons that disrupts normal cortical control of the corticospinal and corticobulbar pathways that disrupts normal functioning of the spinal motor neurons which control muscle and body movements."

This concept is still very theoretical, the report notes:

Application of electromagnetic pulses is also a conceptual nonlethal technology that uses electromagnetic energy to induce neural synchrony and disruption of voluntary muscle control. The effectiveness of this concept has not been demonstrated. However, from past work in evaluating the potential for electromagnetic pulse generator to affect humans, it is estimated that sufficiently strong internal fields can be generated within the brain to trigger neurons.

Sadly, there’s little context for the report, which is dated 1998, and no specific references to current programs or research, if any, about such weapons.

and.....

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Summary:  We are building a sensor system that is for use by local police departments and communities to vector sonic weapon attacks back to their source.  Sonic Weaponry has proliferated in the last decade and is currently being used as a weapon in both business and personal lives in the United States and abroad. Unlike laser pointers, which can be observed and therefore detected, sonic cannon and parametric systems used as weapons are capable of travelling through walls and harming people at a range of more than a mile, making detection difficult. Owing to chronic use for competitive advantage and the proliferation of technologies that are adaptable to make it work, crews representing competitors and criminals alike started upgrading harassment systems several years ago. By far the most common type of attack is localized and utilizes a degraded form of sonic weaponry. Known as a psycho-acoustic attack, it is the force behind some of the recent ‘hauntings’ that can be read about on the internet.  It is also being used in industrial sabotage and espionage.