It doesn't matter that Obama is an accessory to mass murder. No one cares.
9/18/13, "Navy Yard: Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene," BBC
One of the first teams of heavily armed police to respond to Monday's shooting in Washington DC was ordered to stand down by superiors, the BBC can reveal.
The Capitol Police department said senior officials were investigating. Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard.
"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
familiar with the incident told the BBC.
Assault weapons ready
A former Navy reservist, Alexis was working as
a technical contractor for the Navy and had a valid pass and security
clearance allowing him entry to the highly secure building in south-east
Washington DC.
Armed with a shotgun and a pistol he took from a guard he had shot, he sprayed bullets down a hallway and fired from a balcony down on to workers in an atrium.
He fired on police officers who eventually stormed the building, and was later killed in the shootout.
Multiple sources in the Capitol Police department have told the BBC that its highly trained and heavily armed four-man Containment and Emergency Response Team (Cert) was near the Navy Yard when the initial report of an active shooter came in about 8:20 local time.
The officers, wearing full tactical gear and armed with HK-416 assault weapons, arrived outside Building 197 a few minutes later, an official with knowledge of the incident told the BBC.
'A different outcome'
According to a Capitol Police source, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Washington DC's main municipal force, told the Capitol Cert officers they were the only police on the site equipped with long guns and requested their help stopping the gunman.
When the Capitol Police team radioed their superiors, they were told by a watch commander to leave the scene, the BBC was told.
Several Capitol Police sources who spoke to the BBC asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal. Capitol Police Officer Jim Konczos, who leads the officers' union, said the Cert police train for what are known as active shooter situations and are expert marksmen.
"Odds are it might have had a different outcome," he said of Monday's shooting and the decision to order the Cert unit to stand down. "It probably could have been neutralised."
A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police Department, which protects the city of Washington DC, said allegations that a Capitol Police Cert team was on scene and later stood down were "not true".
On Wednesday, the Capitol Police said in a statement its leadership had "opened a preliminary investigation into the allegations".
"The [Capitol Police] offered and provided mutual support and assistance at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday," said spokeswoman Lt Kimberly Schneider.
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terry Gainer, who oversees the Capitol Police department, confirmed officials were pulling radio logs from Monday's incident and interviewing the officers involved.
"It's a very serious allegation and inference
to indicate that we were on scene and could have helped and were told to
leave," he said. "It crushes me if that's the case."
Alexis had a history of mental health problems, previous gun-related brushes with the law, and citations for insubordination....
Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel acknowledged "there were a lot of red flags" in Alexis' background that had been missed in the security clearance process which ultimately resulted in his having access to the secure building where he undertook the attack.
"Why they didn't get picked up, why they didn't get incorporated into
the clearance process, what he was doing, those are all legitimate
questions that we're going to be dealing with," he told reporters.
He said he had ordered the Pentagon to conduct
a wide-ranging review of the physical security at all US defence
installations across the world and of the security clearance process....
The officer described a culture in which emergency responders are instructed to not extend themselves beyond the Capitol grounds for fear of discipline.
"They were relying on our command staff to make the right call," another Capitol Police officer said.
"Unfortunately, I don't think that happened in this case.""
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Just the facts, commenter, Kristinn:
"The Pentagon helps al Qaeda.
The DO”J” weaponizes narcoterrorists and
defends terrorists with every ounce of taxpayer $$$$.
The borders are left deliberately open.
20,000 criminal illegal felons are set free.
The NSA ignores the Boston Terrorists and the TSA
ignores they have no passport.
The State Dept covers up the Benghazi Atrocities.
And now SWAT is told to stand down while the USN
is disarmed and (like with Hasan) SLAUGHTERED."
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Comment: This depraved indifference to humanity wouldn't be happening if we had a 2 party system. Obama does what he does because the GOP lets him.
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