Posted on 01/31/2018 11:13:56 AM PST by Kaslin
Okay, “fired” probably isn’t the technical term for it. The worker in question actually submitted his resignation. But do we really think this was a decision he arrived at on his own? Unlikely at best. But the Washington Post reports that the letter of resignation was accepted by the boss and he’s no longer working there. (I’ll repeat the fact that we don’t actually know the worker’s gender, but I’m going with “he” by default. My apologies if this turns out to be a woman.)
But there’s another, somewhat more disturbing angle to this story, which started out as terrifying but has grown more and more bizarre since the original incident. This wasn’t the first time that this particular worker had been in trouble for “confusing” drills with real-world threats. And he’s been a “source of concern” to HEMA management for a decade. (Washington Examiner)
Hawaii Gov. David Ige, a Democrat, apologized for the incident and said it was a “terrifying day when our worst nightmares appeared to become a reality.”
The report from Hawaii officials found that the employee who sent out the false alert earlier this month “has been a source of concern” to other workers “for over 10 years,” according to the Washington Post.
The worker also mixed up real-world scenarios and drills “on at least two separate occasions.”
Allahpundit already looked at the alarming claim that the worker allegedly believed there was a missile heading their way when he “pushed the wrong button.” That’s disturbing enough. But to find out that he confused the real world with some dystopian hellscape fantasy twice before and was still the person responsible for operating that warning system means the fault for this debacle shifts to his superiors.
From the beginning, there were some other, more benign possibilities under discussion. Maybe he was new on the job and wasn’t used to the routine. Perhaps the computer system is poorly designed with a confusing interface making it easy to screw up like that. But now we know that he had been there for at least ten years and had made this sort of error before. Presumably, it never got all the way to the stage of sending out the alert or we’d have known about it, but it was obviously close enough for them to record the incidents.
Knowing all that, how is it that he was still allowed to run that alert software? Surely the complete freakout which followed the false alarm can’t have taken them by surprise. They had to know what a complete disaster that would lead to, right? Couldn’t the worker have been given some other duty in the chain of command which didn’t leave him at the keyboard when the final Go/No Go decision was made?
The worker’s careeer there may be over but the investigation clearly isn’t. If his is the only head to roll I’ll be surprised. Somebody was in charge of this operation and knew there were problems at that work station. And they’re probably going to have to be held accountable.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug......................
Govt employee
How can you be so insensitive to think its a he or a she!?
I was thinking ‘Maui Wowwie’.
Nah, he/she would have been too laid back to push the button.............or even find the button................or even know what a button is...........................
Welcome to Hawaii. Governor didn’t have his Twitter acct password to countermand the announcement.
Weapons-grade incompetent going on in that state.
Yeah, from all indications he was a long-term dumbass who no one liked or trusted and who was incompetent. So why wasn’t he fired long ago? The answer probably lies in the phrase “protected class”, and also “public employee union”.
Conflates imaginary world with reality...could be a good rat candidate for congress in the future.
Terrible excuse since Twitter is only an outside communications path and has absolutely nothing to do with countermanding the announcement.
Yeah, and all this time, no name released.
One other angle is that the person initiating the drill (not this person who has resigned, that person’s boss) forgot to delete the phrase “This is not a drill.” from the instructions. So the erroneous tweeter got some bad instructions, too.
prediction: He’ll turn up in some other government job within five years.
Why hasn’t “the worker” been identified yet?
An illegitimate child of Clinton?
So why did it take 45 minutes to send out the all clear? There are so many BS excuses for this inexcusable incident there is certainly a coverup going on.
I’d venture that this was a planned “attack” by Hawaiian politicians in a desperate attempt to have Trump give the go code, at which point the all clear would be given, and impeachment proceedings could begin.
The reality that they could have started a real nuke war by this little stunt should land every one of them in jail for a very long time.
Having figured that out, the steaming BS excuses are oozing out like hot steaming lava.
Suspicion and coincidence? The 38 minutes that the warning was in effect is the same amount of time that was calculated for a NK missile to reach Hawaii. The suspicion has it that the USS McCain, an Aegis Destroyer sitting off the east coast of Japan shot it down with a laser weapon. But somebody has to take the fall in order to avert another war with NK.
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