CNN reports[Autoplay enabled] that:
Shortly before 9:00 AM today, a vehicle containing two individuals attempted an unauthorized entry at a National Security Agency gate," Jonathan Freed, NSA director of strategic communications, said in a statement.
Fox News is reporting[Autoplay enabled] that:
Two men dressed as women tried to ram a stolen car through the gate of the National Security Agency headquarters in Fort Meade with an SUV Monday morning, resulting in a shooting that left one person dead, according to authorities and sources familiar with the investigation.
The Washington Post provided further details:
Law enforcement officials familiar with the case said the two men in the vehicle were dressed as women and that they had earlier robbed another man of the SUV from a motel on Route 1 in Howard County. One of the officials, who spoke on the condition they not be named to discuss a pending case, said the incident began in Baltimore City on Sunday when the three met. The exact circumstances were still being sorted out by police. Several law enforcement officials said the trio spent the night at a Howard County motel.
[More after the break]
And ABC News is reporting [Autoplay enabled] that:
One man is dead and another severely injured after gunfire erupted today at one of the main gates of the National Security Agency located at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Shortly before 9 a.m. ET, a vehicle with two people inside "attempted an unauthorized entry at a National Security Agency gate," according to a statement from the NSA.
"The driver failed to obey an NSA Police officer's routine instructions for safely exiting the secure campus," the statement continued. "The vehicle failed to stop and barriers were deployed."
Sources say the two inside were men dressed as women. Preliminary information indicated the two men were partying at an area hotel with a third individual when they took that individual's car without permission. However, it's still unclear how or why they ended up at the NSA gate.
A law enforcement source confirmed that the car that crashed at NSA was reported stolen in Howard County, Maryland.
Nevertheless, when the vehicle "accelerated toward an NSA police car blocking the road" and "refused to stop," an NSA police officer opened fire, and one of the two men inside the "unauthorized vehicle" ended up dead, the NSA statement said. The other man in the vehicle was "severely injured” and taken to a local hospital, according to sources.
An NSA Police officer injured in the incident was also taken to the hospital.
The motive(s) for the incursion are still unclear and the NSA, FBI and local law enforcement are investigating the incident and those involved.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 30 2015, @11:59PM
Assholes on all sides and all we Americans get is more cameras reporting on the state of our assholes.
(Score: 3, Funny) by coolgopher on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:08AM
"I'm surrounded by assholes!" - Dark Helmet
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:30AM
I'm a Mog!
and thanks for the flashback! :)
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday March 31 2015, @01:02PM
Keep spying assholes!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2015, @02:14PM
And you keep believing no one else is.
(Score: 1) by t-3 on Tuesday March 31 2015, @02:56PM
We know everyone else is, but the point of America was that we are supposed to be better. I, and many people I know, have only grown progressively angrier and angrier as the ideals I was taught as a child are shit upon daily by cowardly politicians, white collar criminals, and their flunkies.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:14AM
The FBI loves to gin up terrorist plots, they start with muslimish equivalents of good-ole boys sitting around drinking and bullshitting and see if they can goad them into something they can eventually arrest them for.
Sources say the two inside were men dressed as women. Preliminary information indicated the two men were partying at an area hotel with a third individual when they took that individual's car without permission.
That make it sound like these guys didn't need to be goaded, they were just high. Like a bachelor party gone off the rails. Makes me wonder if that's a cover story for this totally plausible conspiracy theory that could easily be the plot to a US remake of Four Lions: [imdb.com]
That these guys were 'groomed' by the FBI, like all the others. [firstlook.org] Their stolen SUV was loaded with box of fake explosives, supplied by the FBI. They intended to ram through the gate (because they are stupid, just the way the FBI likes 'em) and detonate it somewhere on base - and when they couldn't get past the gate, the one guy still alive pressed the fake detonator and nothing happened, click, click, click. The only reason they actually got to the gate is that their FBI 'handlers' were sloppy and lost track of them. Probably because they got up earlier than planned and left before the handlers got to work that day...
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Tuesday March 31 2015, @03:22AM
You can bet they've got "warrants" for listening in on the phone calls of everyone who stayed at that motel [none required for the internet connection, as it's not covered by the constitution].
(Score: 4, Interesting) by JNCF on Tuesday March 31 2015, @03:27AM
So far, it seems like the G-Men are claiming that these guys weren't terrorists. They made the same claim about the guy who shot at Fort Meade on the 24th of February (that guy also appears to have shot at a movie theatre, a highway, and maybe some other places). I'm definitely not saying the government isn't above false flags, but I’m really not sure that's what's going on here. The conspiracy theorist in me even wonders if they might be downplaying what happened in an attempt to not encourage imitators, but fuck if I know. Could just be some crazy dudes. I considered submitting this story earlier, but was unsure how to write the summary. It's a strange one, given our lack of information about their motives.
(Score: 2) by mrcoolbp on Tuesday March 31 2015, @03:39AM
Fair 'nuff. When in doubt, submit it best ya can and we'll do our best to work it out.
(Score:1^½, Radical)
(Score: 5, Funny) by jcross on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:14AM
It's like the news media staged this to hit the sweet spots: the NSA, police shootouts, transvestites, and wild parties!
(Score: 2) by Non Sequor on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:25AM
Kids in the Hall did this years ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6BntlrCOFxY [youtube.com]
I wonder who they made fall in love.
Write your congressman. Tell him he sucks.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:42AM
Shit! More good
mammoriesmemories! Watched them all the time!Thanks! Another good reason to be Canadian.
Too bad egos get in the way: this is why we can only have good things for a while. (Then i squish your head!)
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday March 31 2015, @11:31AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Funny) by dyingtolive on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:41AM
Kind of sounds like a night of hanging out with the DEA.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:17AM
So they dress up as girls, steal a car and just decide at the spur of the moment to smack into the NSA barrier so that they accomplish nothing but look like dicks dressed in drag.
Or....
Someone wants to discredit someone and has them do something no one in their right minds would do. Oh, and the dead guy really pissed someone off and got offed.
I dunno.... i just don't trust the story (and they say the cake is a lie.... )
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Tuesday March 31 2015, @10:44AM
It sure seems futile and pointless. If anyone attempts anything like it, they can at least appear to make a serious attempt.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday March 31 2015, @02:17PM
If that happens I hope We the People get advance notice so we can show up and cheer them on. Ft. Meade should be burned to the ground and all its occupants locked up in solitary for the rest of their days, or hanged on the National Mall. They are traitors to our country and the greatest threat to freedom on Earth.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:35AM
Seriously? Who the fuck do they hire to write this drivel?
>an NSA police officer opened fire, and one of the two men inside the "unauthorized vehicle" ended up dead
Join the SDF Public Access UNIX System today!
(Score: 5, Funny) by tftp on Tuesday March 31 2015, @03:48AM
> an NSA police officer opened fire, and one of the two men inside the "unauthorized vehicle" ended up dead
That is a horribly unprofessional writing by modern standards. It still leaks facts into the story. That is no longer allowed. Let me demonstrate how it shall be properly done:
An NSA employee activated his NSA-provided personal safety equipment. Later one of the two men inside the vehicle developed a medical condition. Paramedics were unable to help him.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday March 31 2015, @12:39AM
And NSA never got even a flimsy idea about before it happened? And you trust them with the "Security" of your nation? To a bunch of guys that can't even know what is happening to them?
(trollish grin. Of course it's an exercise of inflammation, but I may take any food you offer)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by mendax on Tuesday March 31 2015, @05:20AM
There's nothing to see in this story. Just a couple young thugs doing something stupid as is the wont of young thugs. It's not like they were yelling "Allahu akbar!" as they attempted to ram the security checkpoint. Now, if they were yelling "Freedom!", "Liberty!", or "Hail, Snowden!" I'd be impressed.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by Paradise Pete on Tuesday March 31 2015, @05:30AM
Meanwhile, the owner of the vehicle is trying to come up with an explanation he can tell his wife.
(Score: 1, Troll) by ticho on Tuesday March 31 2015, @06:07AM
Do you mean his old wife back in suburbs, or the new wife, Bubba from cell block B?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2015, @09:10AM
Two trannies wasted on ecstasy carjack some poofter they met at a bar and decide to pull a girlieman Thelma and Louise-ish stunt on teh evilz NSA.
Where's Mel Brooks?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 31 2015, @04:10PM
Can you please remove "Breaking:" from story titles when posting them? It makes a lot of sense in the submission queue, for guiding the editors to decide on the story quickly. It makes absolutely no sense to have it when it hits the main page.