BBC News – Navy Yard: Swat team ‘stood down’ at mass shooting scene
BBC News – Navy Yard: Swat team ‘stood down’ at mass shooting scene.
( Feds didn’t want the DC police to know who was really doing the shooting? Aaron Alexis may well have been a victim rather than a perp. They may be using him as a patsy to cover for the real 3 attackers. Who could they have been? False flaggers? Islamic terrorists? If we ever find out it will be the END of the police state that has taken over our country. Call me a “conspiracy theory nut.” I don’t care. The story of the one crazed gunman never made ANY sense. – JW )
On Wednesday, investigators continued to process the sceneOne 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.
A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers.
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.
About 8:15 local time (12:15 GMT), Alexis entered Building 197, headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, which builds and maintains ships and submarines for the Navy, and opened fire.
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.
The gunman, Aaron Alexis, was reported killed after 9:00.
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.
‘A blind eye’
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.”
Mr Gainer said that while the department’s primary responsibility was to protect the Capitol complex, which houses the US Congress, that mission did not allow it to turn a “blind eye” when asked for help.
Alexis had a history of mental health problems, previous gun-related brushes with the law, and citations for insubordination.
On Wednesday, 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.
Right call?
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.
“Where there are gaps, we will close them,” he said. “Where there are inadequacies, we will address them. And where there are failures, we will correct them.”
A Capitol Police officer who heard the Cert request over the radio to engage the gunman reported colleagues within the department felt frustrated they were told to stand down.
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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WarSclerotic 
September 19, 2013 at 12:10 AM
The whole event is suspicious and worries me. Why did I just know that somehow the reported 3 attackers would be reduced to one crazy person? Alexis was being treated by the government. It was reported that he was in DC since August 27th….doing what? and how was he paying his bills? My gut is telling me that the government is experimenting with the mind of a young troubled person. Alexis was programmed. The reaction of people who know him was remarkable for their candor and shock.
Lastly, late in the afternoon someone threw firecrackers over the White House fence causing a immediate reaction by the defenders of the building. The media has not mentioned this since that moment. To me, this event was someone testing the reaction of the secret police to help plan a future attack.
A very scary day.
September 19, 2013 at 3:33 AM
Criminals and enemies of the Constitution such as Diane Feinstein, admittedly wait for ‘opportunities’ like ‘Navy Yard’ to further their agenda.
September 19, 2013 at 3:37 AM
Rahm Emanuel’s mantra: ‘No Crisis Should Go to Waste’ reinforces what many people believe….
….which is that if there is no crises – government actually creates crises to further their agenda to remove citizen’s rights.
September 19, 2013 at 6:34 AM
This tragedy event might be – if these signs are true – of an epic proportions; ”Probe launched over claim that elite Capitol Police unit blocked from Navy Yard massacre”
{Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/19/probe-launched-over-claim-that-elite-capitol-police-unit-blocked-from-navy-yard/#ixzz2fJFxB0Q3}
‘ The BBC,
quoted a Capitol Police “source” as claiming “lives may have been saved” if the team could have intervened. ‘
{Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/19/probe-launched-over-claim-that-elite-capitol-police-unit-blocked-from-navy-yard/#ixzz2fJGRVtZp}
We wont say more in this stage until these allegations will be clarified. But our feeling? Its hard to describe it right now, because the rational wants to refuse what the instinct its saying its going on.
September 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM
http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/09/navy-yard-shooting-capitol-police-told-to-stand-down-after-arriving-at-scene-94185.html#ixzz2fIob9ehn
September 19, 2013 at 6:45 AM
…I also wish we wont have that Lee Harvey Oswald thing all over again. It will be too much for us now to swallow right now.
September 19, 2013 at 7:01 AM
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/09/19/probe-launched-over-claim-that-elite-capitol-police-unit-blocked-from-navy-yard/
September 19, 2013 at 7:07 AM
‘Report: Superiors told Capitol Police SWAT team to stand down during Navy Yard massacre?’ posted at 6:01 pm on September 18, 2013 by Allahpundit, hotair.com.
”I thought the biggest scandal to come from the shooting today would be the fact that the Pentagon didn’t run a full background check on this guy when he was re-hired as a contractor in July. All they did, which is apparently standard practice, was check to make sure his security clearance from 2007 was still intact. No interviews with family members, co-workers, or employers; if there had been, maybe someone would have tipped them to the fact of his mental problems.
But no, that’s not the biggest scandal if this BBC report is right. This … can’t possibly be true, can it?” And the story goes on at the site :hotair.com
September 19, 2013 at 7:13 AM
Navy Yard shooting: Aaron Alexis narrative crumblingby Jon RappoportSeptember 17, 2013www.nomorefakenews.comYesterday, I referenced a USA Today piece which cited a federal law-enforcement source (off the record), who states that Aaron Alexis, the accused shooter, cleared a Navy Yard security checkpoint in his car. After parking in the lot, he got into an argument and opened fire on one or two people. He then entered the building where he went on a killing spree.So did Alexis shoot his way past security guards at the building’s separate checkpoint? Why weren’t the guards waiting for him just outside the building with their weapons drawn, after he, Alexis, had already shot people in the parking lot?This USA Today account hasn’t spread widely through major media. It’s a version of events quite different from the official, more peaceful “gained entrance to the building by using someone’s else’s ID.”So that’s two accounts.Now I have a third, from an unsourced person who appears to be familiar with procedures at the Navy Yard and other naval facilities where computer techs (private contractors) work.According to this source, Alexis was to show up at the Yard to work. He’d been hired as a tech. This was his first day on the job. He didn’t need two IDs, because these private-contractor techs are issued a VAL, Visitor Authorization Letter, which permits them to enter and work in various buildings. These VALs have an expiration date.Alexis would have been carrying a VAL to get past checkpoints. Also, these techs typically carry no more than a backpack or small bag for cables and program CDs. Highly unlikely that Alexis could have gotten inside with a shotgun.So that’s three scenarios.Then we have the variations. He obtained an AR15 inside the building. No he didn’t. He got hold of two handguns. He fired an AR15 shotgun (CNN), which doesn’t exist.There were two other shooters. No there weren’t. One of the two was interviewed and released. The third suspect? Who knows?Somebody’s lying, big-time.The Matrix RevealedHave the networks shown pictures of the actual security checkpoints outside the parking lot and at the building, allowing us to infer what really happened there? If so, I haven’t seen them. Neither have I seen pictures of the parking lot, where, if pictures were taken early enough, one would expect to find shell casings and blood, assuming the USA Today story is correct.The narrative is crumbling. And reporters aren’t picking up the ball, because they merely take dictation from law-enforcement officials.In view of such a miserable excuse for information, assuming Alexis was the killer is speculation.
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/navy-yard-shooting-aaron-alexis-narrative-crumbling/
September 19, 2013 at 5:56 PM
The unit was stood down so the gunmen could carry out the mission set and then set up the patsy. Once that was done the patsy was killed and the official story is now just one mentally unstable gunman.
September 19, 2013 at 6:00 PM
That was my read as well, only I see it as possibly a terror attack rather than a false flag.
The stand down and the 4 hours was needed to find a usable patsy among the victims. The terrorists were either killed or captured.
“Terrorists? What terrorists? You must suffer from Islamophobia…”
September 19, 2013 at 6:02 PM
This is an unfolding event and story. Its not an event that was well prepared before hand. If all those ”speculations” are true than, sooner or later, ”something” will get out through the holes of the net the authorities are trying to build around this incredible case.
September 19, 2013 at 7:25 PM
Bengazi Big Time