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To three hotels because he s hearing voices in the walls and through microwaufs talking to him. he went to police. and those police, what did they do with that information? when we get to this question of did the navy know? reporter: the newport police knew there was a problem. they actually contacted their counterparts at the naval station, aware of the implications that one of their contractors was behaving strangely, he was hearing voices, things just didn t make sense. so they sent a copy of the incident report to the duty officer. the duty officer said it would be followed up. we did reach out, but neither the navy nor the fbi is commenting on what actually happened to that information. but if he was working or he was working at the newport naval base, had they gotten that information they may have been able to check him out, to investigate him, to question him. but it doesn t appear, certainly if he was able to go to a next navy base that indeed happened. all of that right no ....
Hospital in rhode island for help with insomnia. he d also gone to a similar facility we re now learning in washington, d.c. well, alexis told newport police that he d gotten into an argument and was being harassed by three people who were following him and keeping him awake by talking to him and sending vibrations into his body using what he called a microwave machine. he actually moved hotels three times, but he told police that the voices simply didn t go away. he even went to one hotel on a navy base, and he told police that the same voices were talking to him through the walls, the floor, the ceiling. when asked by police, alexis told them that he didn t have any history of mental illness in the family, that he d never had any sort of mental episode. but clearly the fact that he was having trouble sleeping and this was preying on his psyche on his nerves he had gone to the v.a. hospitals to at least get help trying to fall asleep, erin. so you re reporting he went ....
This. according to that defense contractor, they checked him out twice in the last year. and both times got his secret security clearance approved by the department of defense. the latest check, according to this company, was in june, erin. and they said that all they came up with was a minor traffic violation. that is an almost ridiculous security check if they can t even find what you and i can find or anybody else can find on the internet these days. drew griffin, thank you very much with that investigative report here. i want to bring in now outfront republican congressman michael mccall, chairman of the house homeland security committee. senator mccall you just heard that report from drew griffin. and i m trying to figure out exactly where to start with you on this. let s start i guess with this issue. how is it that the navy to begin with could give this person secret clearance, security ....
Yes, our reporting is that the police in rhode island did call that navy base. but we don t know at this point either what that navy base did. how high up in the navy that report went about aaron alexis hearing voices. i guess the question to you, senator mccall, what is wrong at the navy? is this something you can blame on they re using outside contractors to do a lot of this screening whether it be for basic background checks or security clearance? or is it something more significant than that? well, there s a high demand for clearances on the outside with the contractors. but clearly in this case here s the big issue, erin, that concerns me. we know that al qaeda and terrorist groups would love to infiltrate or radicalize or find someone that has this access, these clearances, to get on a military installation and cause the type of tragedy that he caused. so i think we need a more heightened state of alert when it comes to who we re giving these clearances out. to this is a secr ....
He was then seen on surveillance video ducking into a bathroom. when he came out of the bathroom the shotgun was in one piece. he had buck shot shells each packed with a dozen pellets capable of hitting multiple targets although there are serious questions about that tonight. we re going have those for you. plus investigators are gathering so much more about alexis s final days in the past couple of hours. they now have his computer. they re pouring over surveillance video from the washington hotel where he was staying. we re going to have much more details on all of that, including alexis s history of mental illness. because just this august we have found out that alexis told police he was hearing voices in his head. and they did something crucial with that information. we re going have that for you. first i want to get straight to joe johns at the navy yard live in washington tonight. joe, you met a tomorrow today, a woman who was staying at the same washington hotel where alexis spe ....