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By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press WASHINGTON » Threats to Defense Department person- nel and facilities increasingly are coming from trusted in- siders, and to defeat them the Pentagon must beef up secu- rity from within, according to several reviews triggered by last year's Washington Navy Yard killings. The reviews say the shoot - ing by a Navy contractor could have been prevented if the company that employed Aaron Alexis told the Navy about problems it was hav - ing with him in the months before he gunned down 12 ci- vilian workers. An independent study and an internal review or- dered after the September 2013 massacre and released Tuesday said the Pentagon must expand its focus be - yond defending against ex- ternal threats. More atten- tion must be paid, they con- cluded, to defending against threats from inside the workforce. "For decades, the de - partment has approached security from a perime- ter perspective," said Paul Stockton, former Penta- gon assistant secretary for homeland defense and one of the authors of the indepen- dent review. "That approach is outmoded, it's broken, and the department needs to re- place it." According to the Navy probe, the Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based company, The Experts, pulled Alexis' ac - cess to classified material because of concerns he was having mental health prob- lems. It then restored his access two days later and never told the Navy about it. The Associated Press re- ported those findings late last year. Alexis, a former Navy re- servist, was shot to death during the incident. The broader department reviews reached similar conclusions. They said the department should cut the number of workers who hold security clearances, conduct better and routinely updated background checks, and es - tablish a system to evaluate and handle employees who are potential threats. Preventing violence in the workplace must start "long before someone en - ters an installation with a weapon," the internal re- view said. The Navy investigation's most damning charges were against Alexis' employers. The report written by Navy Adm. John Richard - son said Alexis's behavior raised concerns among his supervisors and others and indicated he may harm oth - ers. Had such information been reported to the gov- ernment and acted upon, it stated, Alexis' authoriza- tion to secure facilities would have been revoked. Alexis' company tempo- rarily withdrew his access to classified information af- ter a series of bizarre com- plaints and police incidents last August during a busi- ness trip to Newport, R.I. Alexis complained that peo- ple were following him, mak- ing noise and using a micro- wave machine to "send vi- brations through the ceiling" in his hotel room. The report said The Ex- perts' human resources ma nager ca lled A lexis' mother, who said her son "has been paranoid and this was not the first episode he had experienced." The Experts concluded the information on Alexis was based on rumor and in - nuendo and thus restored his access. His secret-level secu- rity clearance from the Navy carried over when he went to work as a computer contrac- tor last summer. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Tuesday the de- partment will set up an au- tomated program that will continuously pull informa- tion from law enforcement and other databases. NAvy yArd kILLINGS Pentagon faces threat from within Jacquelyn Martin — associated Press file the review of last year's navy yard killings say more could have been done to prevent the massacre. Report: Pentagon must boost internal security By Stephen Ohlemacher The Associated Press WASHINGTON » An Internal Revenue Ser- vice employee took home personal infor- mation on about 20,000 IRS workers, for- mer workers and contractors, putting the data at risk for public release, the agency said Tuesday. The employee took home a computer thumb drive containing names, Social Security numbers and addresses of the workers, and plugged the drive into an unsecure home network, IRS Commis - sioner John Koskinen said in an email to employees. "At this point, we have no direct evidence to indicate this personal information has been used for identity theft or other inap - propriate uses," the IRS said in a statement. Koskinen said the incident did not in- volve any taxpayer information. The IRS said the potential breach was an isolated incident. Almost all the employees worked at IRS offices in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Most no longer work at the IRS. Koskinen said the agency was working to contact each of them, and would offer free identity theft monitoring. The personal information dated back to at least 2007. The agency's inspector general was investigating the potential breach. An IRS spokeswoman declined to com - ment on the status of the employee who took home the data, citing federal privacy laws. POTeNTIAL dATA BreACH Worker took home personal info on 20K employees, IRS says By Tom Hays The Associated Press NeW yOrk » A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the self- described architect of the Sept. 11 attacks will not be al - lowed to testify in the terror- ism trial of Osama bin Lad- en's son-in-law, but defense lawyers later asked him to reconsider. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan firmly rejected a re - quest by the lawyers to call Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a witness at the trial of Sulaiman Abu Ghaith using live, closed-circuit video from Guantanamo Bay, where Mo - hammed is imprisoned. At a hearing during an off day at Abu Ghaith's trial, Ka- plan told the defense that the testimony would be irrele- vant because there was no ev- idence that Mohammed and Abu Ghaith had ever met or even been in the same coun- try. He also criticized Abu Ghaith's lawyers for making the request at such a late stage. "I have considered this very carefully," Kaplan said. "This is much ado about nothing." When defense attorney Stanley Cohen stood to try to argue further, Kaplan or - dered him to sit down. "Too little, too late," the judge said in a stern tone. "It's not here. It's denied." Prosecutors had pointed to a recent written statement by Mohammed that he would refuse to testify in the case as another reason to deny the defense request to call him as a witness. But shortly af - ter the ruling, Cohen sent the judge a letter saying he had received word from Moham- med's lawyer that Moham- med had now "agreed to be examined without limitation on all relevant topics." TerrOr TrIAL Judge bars testimony Sept. 11 mastermind won't be witness for bin Laden's kin By Chris Brummitt The Associated Press kUALA LUMPUr, MALAySIA » Ten days after a Malaysian jetliner disappeared, Thai- land's military said Tuesday it saw radar blips that might have been from the missing plane but didn't report it "be - cause we did not pay atten- tion to it." Search crews from 26 countries, including Thai- land, are looking for Malay- sia Airlines Flight 370, which vanished early March 8 with 239 people aboard en route from Kuala Lumpur to Bei - jing. Frustration is growing among relatives of those on the plane at the lack of prog- ress in the search. Aircraft and ships are scouring two giant arcs of ter- ritory amounting to the size of Australia — half of it in the re- mote waters of the southern Indian Ocean. Cmdr. William Marks, a spokesman for the U.S. 7th Fleet, said finding the plane was like trying to locate a few people somewhere between New York and California. Early in the search, Ma - laysian officials said they sus- pected the plane backtracked toward the Strait of Malacca, just west of Malaysia. But it took a week for them to con - firm Malaysian military radar data suggesting that route. Military officials in neigh- boring Thailand said Tues- day their own radar showed an unidentified plane, possi- bly Flight 370, flying toward the strait beginning minutes after the Malaysian jet's tran- sponder signal was lost. Air force spokesman Air Vice Marshal Montol Suchoo- korn said the Thai military doesn't know whether the plane it detected was Flight 370. Thailand's failure to quickly share possible infor - mation about the plane may not substantially change what Malaysian officials now know, but it raises questions about the degree to which some countries are sharing their defense data. At a minimum, safety experts said, the radar data could have saved time and effort that was initially spent searching the South China Sea, many miles from the Indian Ocean. "It's tough to tell, but that is a material fact that I think would have mattered," said John Goglia, a former member of the U.S. National Transpor - tation Safety Board. "It's just bizarre they didn't come forward before," Scott Hamilton, managing direc- tor of aviation consultancy Leeham Co., said of Thai au- thorities. "It may be too late to help the search ... but maybe them and the Malaysian mil- itary should do joint military exercises in incompetence." Flight 370 took off from Kuala Lumpur at 12:40 a.m. March 8 and its transponder, which allows air traffic con - trollers to identify and track it, ceased communicating at 1:20 a.m. Montol said that at 1:28 a.m., Thai military radar "was able to detect a signal, which was not a normal signal, of a plane flying in the direction opposite from the MH370 plane," back toward Kuala Lumpur. The plane later turned right, toward Butter - worth, a Malaysian city along the Strait of Malacca. The ra- dar signal was infrequent and did not include data such as the flight number. When asked why it took so long to release the informa - tion, Montol said, "Because we did not pay any attention to it. The Royal Thai Air Force only looks after any threats against our country." He said the plane never entered Thai airspace and that Malaysia's initial request for information in the early days of the search was not specific. "When they asked again and there was new informa - tion and assumptions from (Malaysian) Prime Minister Najib Razak, we took a look at our information again," Mon - tol said. "It didn't take long for us to figure out, although it did take some experts to find out about it." The search area for the plane initially focused on the South China Sea. Pings that a satellite detected from the plane hours after its commu - nications went down even- tually led authorities to con- centrate instead on two vast arcs — one into Central Asia and the other into the Indian Ocean. Malaysia said over the weekend the loss of commu - nications and change in the aircraft's course were deliber- ate, whether it was the pilots or others aboard who were re- sponsible. Malaysian police are con- sidering the possibility of hi- jacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board, but have yet to say what they have uncovered. Investigators had pointed to a sequence of events in which two communications systems were disabled in suc - cession — one of them before a voice from the cockpit gave an all-clear message to ground controllers — as evidence of a deliberate attempt to fly the plane off-course in a hard-to- detect way. On Monday, they backtracked on the timing of the first switch-off, saying it was possible that both were cut around the same time, leading to new speculation that some kind of sudden me - chanical or electrical failure might explain the flight going off-course. Malaysia Airlines CEO Ah - mad Jauhari Yahya said some sort of problem aboard the plane was not out of the ques- tion, although he noted it still was intact enough to send a signal to a satellite several hours later. As further confirmation that someone was still guid - ing the plane after it disap- peared from civilian radar, airline pilots and aviation safety experts said an on- board computer called the flight management system would have to be deliberately programmed in order to fol - low the route taken by the plane as described by Malay- sian authorities. "If you are going to fly the airplane to a waypoint that is not a straight ... route to Bei - jing, and you were going to command the flight manage- ment computer and the auto- pilot system, you really have to know how to fly the air- plane," said John Gadzinski, a U.S. Boeing 737 captain. FLIGHT 370 Did Thai radar pick up plane? Thailand's military says blips could have been from missing flight Day's Developments Investigation: chinese authorities say they have checked into the back- ground of all chinese na- tionals on board the miss- ing Boeing 777 jetliner but have uncovered no links to terrorism or any evidence to suggest they were involved in hijacking, ac- cording to Huang Huikang, the chinese ambassador in Kuala lumpur. Hunt: china says it has begun using satellites to scan its territory for the missing plane aer satellite data indicated the jet's last position could be anywhere along two sections of a vast arc stretching from central asia to the southern reaches of the indian ocean. china also sent naval ships that had been in the south china sea to the indian ocean. Questions: Beyond the question of where the plane is, many unknowns remain. investigators are also considering: if the two pilots were involved in the disappearance, were they working together or alone, or with one or more of the passengers or crew? did they fly the plane under duress or of their own will? LEGAL NOTICE TS# 13-1996 57219 Compliance with California Civil Code Sec- tion 2923.3 was not required be- cause the loan was secured by Commercial Property. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED: 4/29/10. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bid- der for cash, cashier's check drawn on a state or national bank, check drawn by a state or federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal sav- ings and loan association, or savings association, or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the Financial Code and author- ized to do business in this state will be held by the duly appoint- ed trustee, as shown below, all right, title and interest conveyed to and now held b y the trustee i h h i f d ib d y i n the hereinafter described property under and pursuant to a Deed of Trust described be- low. The sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, express or implied, regarding ti- tle, possession, or encumbran- ces, to satisfy the obligation se- cured by said Deed of Trust. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrect- ness of the property address or other common designation, if any shown herein. Trustor: Rob- ert S. Mattingly and Rachel E. Mattingly, husband and wife, as Joint Tenants Duly Appointed Trustee: Foreclosure Specialists LLC Recorded 6/18/10 as Instru- ment No. 2010006315 of Official Records in the office of the Re- corder of Tehama County, Cali- fornia, Date of Sale: Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at 11:00 AM Place of Sale: At the front door entrance to the County Courthouse, 633 Washington Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 The common designation of the property is purported to be: 915 Madison Street, Red Bluff , CA 96080 APN: 029-302-01 i d i bid , Estimated opening bid: $329,981.57 Beneficiary may elect to open bidding at a lesser amount. The total amount se- cured by said instrument as of the time of initial publication of this notice is stated above, which includes the total amount of the unpaid balance (including accrued and unpaid interest) and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of initial publication of this notice. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bid- ding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bid- der at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien be- ing auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priori- ty, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county re- corder's office or a title insur- ance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this in- formation. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mort- gage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be post- poned one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that in- formation about trustee sale postponements be made availa- ble to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date f h l f hi for the sale of this property, you may call the trustee's informa- tion line at 530-246-2727 or visit this Internet Web site calforeclosures.biz, using the file number assigned to this case: TS # 13-1996. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that oc cur close in time to the sched- uled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone in- formation or on the Internet Web site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. Date 3/4/14 FORECLOSURE SPECIAL- ISTS LLC 1388 Court Street, Ste C Redding, CA 96001 530-246-2727 Janelle Van Bockern, Trustee Sale Officer Foreclosure Special- ists LLC is assisting the Benefi- ciary in collecting a debt. Any and all information obtained may be used for that purpose TAC: 968074 PUB: 3/12, 3/19, 3/26/14 Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices Legal Notices | ClassIFIeDs | redBluffdailyneWs.coM Wednesday, MarcH 19, 2014 6 B