A heavily armed tactical response unit that initially responded to the Washington Navy Yard shooting was told by its superiors to stand down before the suspected shooter was killed. The advanced four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (CERT) that usually guards the nearby US Capitol complex was one of the first armed teams on the scene to aid municipal police officers. The CERT unit was quickly told to leave the scene by Capitol Police command.
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Andrew Pontbriand Intellihub.com Officials involved in the investigation of the Navy Yard shooting, have come forward with new insights on the weapon that was used in the shooting. Alexis had carved the words ‘My ELF weapon’ on his Remington 870-Express-Tactical shotgun. ELF stands for ‘extremely low frequency’, and usually refers to communications or weather.[1] For those who are familiar with this technology, it is well understood that this is used in programs such as H.A.A.R.P. It has also been reported by several government whistle blowers, and even political activists that they suspected a ‘ELF weapon’ was being used on them.
The US Department of Justice’s internal oversight body did not investigate complaints by federal intelligence court judges that government lawyers misrepresented how the NSA gathered and analyzed data from American phone and internet communications. Two judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which oversees the spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA), on several occasions admonished federal officials for misstating the scope of the NSA’s collection of communication data.
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Elias Jaua told media that an aircraft carrying President Nicolas Maduro was denied travel over Puerto Rico’s airspace. President Maduro’s flight, which was en route to China, was forced to find an alternate path according to Jaua, who denounced the act as “an act of aggression.”
A small North Dakota town has established a legal fund in hopes of fending off attempts by a white supremacist to buy up nearby plots of land and take over the city council. Craig Cobb, 61, has purchased mostly vacant lots at low prices from absentee owners in Leith, North Dakota, in an attempt to own enough property to control the local government. The town is located 51 miles southwest of Bismarck.
A Facebook user’s decision to “like” something on the social networking site falls under the protection of the First Amendment, a US federal appeals court ruled in a closely monitored case over how the Constitution protects Americans’ online activity. The Fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in favor of a former deputy sheriff in Hampton, Virginia who said that he was fired for “liking” the Facebook page of the candidate running for city sheriff against his boss.
“Update to iOS 7 and become waterproof” claims the ad (see above) explaining that “In an emergency, a smart-switch will shut off the phone’s power supply and corresponding components to prevent any damage to your iPhone’s delicate circuitry.”
Chicago police say two gunmen attacked a crowd on a park basketball court, with at least 11 people injured in the shooting, including three-year-old, their conditions from serious to critical. The gunmen haven’t been taken into custody yet. Chicago Fire Department officials report the child is in critical condition.
More than 5,250 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a river in Colorado, contaminating much of the same region that was ravaged days earlier by a monumental flood that left no fewer than eight residents dead. The Denver Post reported on Wednesday evening that the Colorado Department of Natural Resources was alerted of the spill that afternoon by Anadarko Petroleum, a Texas-based oil and gas exploration company.
An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale has been recorded near the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant. There are no reports of damage to destroyed facilities and no spike in radiation levels in the area. The earthquake took place at 17:25 GMT, according to United States Geological Service (USGS) which measured the quake at 5.3. The Japan Meteorological Agency, however, put the quake at magnitude 5.8.
By Amanda Holpuch When Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff postponed her official visit to the US in protest of National Security Agency spying activities on Tuesday, it seemed like a routine bit of diplomatic posturing. But another one of her proposals could perhaps be more significant:
No telecommunications company ever refused to follow the secret US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s orders to turn over bulk phone records under the Patriot Act, despite a legal mechanism to do so, the court has revealed. “To date, no holder of records who has received an order to produce bulk telephony metadata has challenged the legality of such an order,” Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Claire Eagan wrote. Her opinion was made public on Tuesday.
The US Department of Defense has ordered a security review at its facilities worldwide, including security clearances. The move follows the massacre at Washington Navy Yard, where Aaron Alexis killed 12 people. “Time frame, the depth of the clearance, kind of clearance, access, different clearances given to individuals. We’re going to look at all that,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said during a news conference..
By Rob Chaney Wildlife officials are trying to find out why more than 100 whitetail deer have died along the Clark Fork River west of Missoula. “The deer may show no outward symptoms of disease,” said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Vickie Edwards. “People are seeing healthy looking deer fall over dead.”
By Mark Potter Aaron Alexis was so unhappy with his life in America — where he was beset by money woes and felt slighted as a veteran — that he was “ready to move out of the country” last year, a friend said Tuesday. “He was tired of dealing with the government,” said Kristi Suthamtewkal, whose husband owns the Thai Bowl Restaurant in Fort Worth, where Alexis worked in exchange for room and board.
The latest revelation regarding the National Security Agency doesn’t come courtesy of Edward Snowden. A Freedom of Information Act request has confirmed the NSA contracted a French company that makes its money by hacking into computers. It’s no secret that the United States government relies on an arsenal of tactics to gather intelligence and wage operations against its adversaries, but a FOIA request filed by Muckrock’s Heather Akers-Healy has confirmed that the list of Uncle Sam’s business partners include Vupen, a French-based security company that specializes in selling secret codes used to crack into computers.
There was a Newport, Rhode Island police report summarizing an early morning complaint in August by Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis. Alexis complained that an individual he had an altercation with in an airport had “sent 3 people to follow him and keep him awake by talking to him…using ‘some sort of microwave device.’” Was this a first red flag leading to an alarming portrait of a defense contractor suffering from mental illness? Or fact?
President Barack Obama on Monday wearily lamented “yet another mass shooting,” this time in the nation’s capital where the debate that raged earlier this year over tightening firearms laws has stalled amid opposition from gun-rights advocates. The shooting at the Washington Navy Yard came a week after voters recalled two Colorado legislators who supported tougher gun measures, illustrating the strong political headwinds faced by lawmakers seeking to respond to the violence.