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Attempted Breach of NSA HQ Checkpoint; One Shot Dead
seven of five writes One man is dead and another severely injured after a shootout at one of the main gates of the National Security Agency located at Fort Meade, Maryland. Two men dressed as women attempted to 'penetrate' the entry point with their vehicle when a shootout occurred, officials said. The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism.
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the summary doesn't say who was shot dead but I do hope it was one of the bad guys
Being dressed as women has nothing to do with putting 'penetration' in quotes, unless there is some sort of joke I'm missing. Why is it in quotes?
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So in some abstract sense I can see why the NSA could be considered a valid target in some contexts.
But, honestly, trying to gate crash an Army base and then getting into a shooting match with the guards ... well, that's a special kind of stupid.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
They must've got wind Systemd forked the Linux kernel and went nuts. Maybe they were already nuts but just hated Systemd. I dont get this world anymore man
"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a car, is a good guy with a gun." - Wayne Lapierre
"An NSA police officer shot one of the people dead dead and seriously injured the second."
How dead is "dead dead" vis-à-vis other levels of death?
Pretty sure this is just "The Americans" fan fiction...
It is quoting what the officials said.
And only seriously injured but didn't seriously seriously injure the second.
Until Dr. Charles Luther h@xx0rs your self-driving car and makes it crash through the gates at a military base.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
They were not the... drag queens you are looking for?
You'd think they would have seen this coming.
>The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism.
How can they know this so quickly ? I thought terrorist was a label for persons using violence for political motives. Even if these people were not foreigners wouldn't anybody using violence against the NSA likely be motivated by politics ? Unless this was an angry employee (workplace violence) or some April fools prank that went horribly wrong...
Attacking the government in such a fashion gives them an excuse to seize more power.
TWO? Just two? and if they were going to get into a shootout, why the hell did they bother dressing like women?
This time, they are even older.
And they have backup, that skeleton army from one of the Jason films.
"The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism."
WOW! Seriously. This is great news. I just figured EVERYTHING was ALWAYS called "terrorism" now. Is someone finally figuring out that if everything is terrorism, then nothing is terrorism? Do we no longer need to invoke the boogeyman every time something bad happens? Oh happy day.
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Then just tell the MPs that they will want civilians jobs as well.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Bad guys. You have to wonder how many foreign gov Astroturf here.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism.
In other words, it's only terrorism when it suits our political agenda to call it that.
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NSA is really harsh on transvestites; how do they feel about man-bras for moobs?
No doubt these companies went through network, server and application security assessments and then completely ignored their 3rd party Ad provider that hosts their Ads on a hacked shared host.
The FBI said they do not believe the incident is related to terrorism.
Yes it is. The NSA are, by definition, terrorists. They use fear (read: "terror") to incite their political beliefs and control the population.
I guess shooting at two men in dresses is more acceptable than shooting at two unarmed women.
Current article says "two people" now.
The NSA probably couldn't get a bead on the attackers, because they were wearing tin foil hats.
I'm so sorry I read these comments, as retired DOD it's starting to become apparent that while we were trying to protect the people and homeland of this country, it seems now we've been trying to protect morons who cheer for the destruction of personnel engaged in this endeavor.
The men who allegedly attempted to trespass on government property did not shoot back.
Were any of the two shot dead Edward Snowden or Julian Assange?
Hmm, last time I saw this it was drunk soldiers coming back to the wrong gate after a night on the town in the 80s.
Here's how you penetrate an army base.
Don't tell me, there will be more 'protection' for all NSA staff, they are the 'victims', etc.etc.
"The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you." Polish saying.
Crashing through a gate where there's a guy armed with a machine gun is a really good way to get shot, a lot. It annoys the guy with the machine gun, and he has a tendency to shoot things that annoy him. And he's not using the cheap Wal*Mart bullets, either. The last thing to go through your head, I mean, before bullets, would probably be "Wow, those are really some high quality bullets that guy is shooting me with!" I seem to recall that this sort of thing was fairly common back in the 70's and 80's with the hippies trying to disrupt the SAC air force bases. We seem to be having a spike in the crazy/stupid lately, where people seem to think that if you go crashing through a gate with a guy with a machine gun, they'll be nice to you or something. Nope. Not the case at all.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
The men who allegedly attempted to trespass on government property did not shoot back.
Well, duh, Crash the gates of a capital district military base and you won't live long enough to get a chance to shoot back.
According to a CNN article, they were leaving the secure area, not entering. A quote from an official said they failed to follow proper safe EXITING procedures. Another major news site said that a gun and cocaine were found in the vehicle. It's a large complex and a lot of people live in it. Sounds like drugs were being ferried in or out, and it didn't have anything to do with the NSA or secrets.
Better known as 318230.
not restraint; ROE. From the limited information available, it appears that the guards followed the ROE very well.
Time to add men dressed as women to the no fly list.
Wait, maybe that's the secret to 'not' being stopped by airport security. They aren't terrorist after all...
Because if you do, like I do, then you KNOW that certain roads that aren't properly marked are what we call "honey pot" roads to both the NSA and the CIA. And there's no exit off of them back to the main road. I can easily see this as a mistake of local citizens accidentally making a wrong turn, and then ending up at that gate, immediately surrounded by armed trigger happy guards. I almost made that mistake myself.
There's something seriously f--ked up when the NSA and CIA set up roads, with no signs, that have you already inside their territory at the gate, with no way to turn around. I can see someone panicking and turning to drive out and getting shot up. And with GPS these days taking you down strange roads, I can definitely see this as the actual situation that resulted in the shooting. Everytime I pass that on ramp, you know that road is watched with more cameras and snipers than an Iraqi town.
Bad enough the CIA and NSA do all kinds of shit to citizens nationwide. But this is what they do to LOCALS!
One has to do something pretty messed up to piss those people off.
And another thing, with all the target practice; NSA missed? Or was the other cross dresser that stunning?
What I can't figure out is why they though dressing in drag would help whatever they were doing. If you don't have the right credentials, being a woman is not going to help, and being a really suspiciously manly woman will help even less. Unless your face is personally known to them all you are doing is risking drawing even more scrutiny on yourself for literally no benefit.
Were the men who dressed as women wearing pantyhose?
I was hoping it was about some pissed off Americans that felt this was the only way to stop NSA: go in guns blazing, exercising their patriotic duty and to dismantle government that has over extended its reach.
Definitely a Darwin award winner.
I grew up on US military bases, but haven't had an ID for 20+ yrs. The gate guards are nice folks, but don't be confused. They have a job and they will do it. There are gates with slightly touchier guards inside the base too. As a kid, we often found those places (think "Christmas tree" http://www.globalsecurity.org/... ) on our bikes about 100m from alert bombers loaded with nuclear weapons.
I think of all the times I've hopped the fence at different USAF bases trying to get to or from school rather than walk the extra mile to go through the gate. As a 7-10 yr old, I don't think there was much risk. Never heard of any kid being harmed for doing it. Around 12 yrs old, Dad had the talk about hopping the fence and being shot. Everyone my age stopped.
Looks like the Obama Administration's Narcotics Delivery System is on TeeWee for all to see. Ha ha.
Which packages in the van for "President", "Vice President", "Holdren", "White House Staff", "DHS", "DOE, "DOS" et al.
Are the "Joint" Chief's named! You betcha.
Wow! Righteous! No "wiggle room" for the President, No "Piss and Moan" room for POTUS, with a kilo of Cocaine with his name on it!
Ha ha
for stealing the NSA's cocaine.
Not sure they use that specific term, but they definitely have people in covert roles. I won't go into details, but they usually pay in paper bags full of cash and usually have design specs that violate the DMCA.