I’m sure all TAH regular readers remember the Washington Navy Yard shooting a couple of months ago.\u00a0 Well, as Alice in Wonderland might have said – the more we learn, the more this one gets “curioser and curioser”.<\/p>\n
The shooter was a man named Aaron Alexis.\u00a0 He apparently had a long history of questionable behavior, including multiple indications that his “headspace and timing” (e.g., mental stability) was a bit . . . off.<\/p>\n
Well, now it seems as if the shooter’s company had reason to doubt his suitability for access to classified information – and his sanity.\u00a0 The Army Times<\/span> is reporting that the month prior to the shooting Alexis’ employer suspended his access to classified information<\/a> because of concerns about his mental health and\/or conduct.<\/p>\n Alexis’ employer – a firm called “The Experts”, based in Fort Lauderdale, FL – apparently suspended his access for two days in August 2013 after receiving word of an altercation between Alexis and police in Rhode Island.\u00a0 They reinstated his access to classified material two days later.\u00a0 The firm apparently never notified the Navy of the incident.<\/p>\n Less than six weeks later, Alexis went “off the rails” crazy and gunned down 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard.\u00a0 The shooting spree was ended when he was killed by police.<\/p>\n “Curioser and curioser” is right.\u00a0 IMO someone has some serious<\/em> ‘splainin’ to do here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"