How did Aaron Alexis, the man who shot and killed 12 people in Washington, D.C., get security clearance from the government? This was a man who, a few years ago, shot out the car tires of someone he thought had disrespected him. I always thought that government security clearance was earned by impeccable background behaviour but it seems that isn't the case. Was he given this security clearance because he knew people in high places? Somehow, the agency who researches anyone asking for or already having government security clearance has failed to do the job they were hired to do. We, the people, can't have this!
A few years back, when my husband and I were planning to vacation in Cuba, my daughter was worried it might affect her husband's own security clearance and I thought that was pretty stupid...but I did think that maybe the U.S. regulations were terribly stringent. Apparently not so.
Aaron Alexis was a very troubled man who had severe psychological problems that were not known to the government...because they were not legally privy to that kind of information. So, does that mean a person could be being treated for homicidal tendencies and still be able to receive security clearance? It makes you wonder about who's guarding who.
Of course, in the States, there are millions of mentally impaired people who can legally purchase and carry guns so it shouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to realize that some of them even have government security clearance, too.
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