{"id":29730,"date":"2018-01-15T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29730"},"modified":"2018-01-15T07:46:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T12:46:56","slug":"reflections-on-pushing-the-wrong-button-and-us-drone-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29730","title":{"rendered":"Reflections On “Pushing the Wrong Button” and US Drone Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A \u201cballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii\u201d notification was caused by an employee who “pushed the wrong button.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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ABC News reports an [emergency alert notification] (http:\/\/wnep.com\/2018\/01\/13\/wrong-button-pushed-during-shift-change-blamed-for-false-hawaii-missile-alert\/<\/a>) sent out on Saturday claiming a \u201cballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii\u201d was a false alarm caused by an employee pressing the \u201cwrong button\u201d during a shift change, according to Hawaii Gov. David Ige.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Wrong button\u2019 pushed during \u2018shift change\u2019 blamed for false Hawaii missile alert<\/div>\n
An emergency alert notification sent out on Saturday claiming a “ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii” was a false alarm caused by an employee pressing the “wrong button” during a shift change, according to Hawaii Gov. David Ige. “BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL,\u201d the initial emergency alert read.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI know first-hand how today\u2019s false alarm<\/a> affected all of us here in Hawaii, and I am sorry for the pain and confusion it caused. I, too, am extremely upset about this and am doing everything I can do to immediately improve our emergency management systems, procedures and staffing,\u201d said Gov. David Ige.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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  • 8:05 a.m. \u2013 A routine internal test during a shift change was initiated. This was a test that involved the Emergency Alert System, the Wireless Emergency Alert, but no warning sirens.<\/li>\n
  • 8:07 a.m. \u2013 A warning test was triggered statewide by the State Warning Point, HI-EMA.<\/li>\n
  • 8:10 a.m. \u2013 State Adjutant Maj. Gen. Joe Logan, validated with the U.S. Pacific Command that there was no missile launch.<\/li>\n
  • Honolulu Police Department notified of the false alarm by HI-EMA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    …click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reflections On “Pushing the Wrong Button” and US Drone Policy A \u201cballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii\u201d notification was caused by an employee who “pushed the wrong button.” Wrong Button ABC News reports an [emergency alert notification] (http:\/\/wnep.com\/2018\/01\/13\/wrong-button-pushed-during-shift-change-blamed-for-false-hawaii-missile-alert\/) sent out on Saturday claiming a \u201cballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii\u201d was a false alarm caused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[15994,1007,8838,14648,13390,17916,827],"class_list":["post-29730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-ballistic-missile","tag-drones","tag-hawaii","tag-michael-shedlock","tag-mishtalk","tag-missile","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29730"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29732,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29730\/revisions\/29732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}