That’s what I’m left wondering after yesterday’s news cycle yielded the fact that Governor David Ige knew within minutes that this was Saturday’s nuclear attack warning was a false alarm.
One of the day’s revelations: The governor knew within two minutes that the alert was a false alarm.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Logan, the state’s adjutant general, said he called the governor at 8:09 a.m. to let him know the message was a mistake.
That was after calling the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency at 8:07 a.m., when the alert went out, and speaking to a supervisor.
This morning, the Star-Advertiser followed up on the same briefing with this addition:
After the governor was informed that the alert was false, he “immediately started his attempt to reach” Communications Director Cindy McMillan, press secretary Jodi Leong said Friday. Ige’s communications team handles the governor’s social media accounts. The call log on the cellphone of Ige’s communication director no longer includes calls from Jan. 13.
That last sentence got my attention. What does it mean? We’re left dangling, waiting for clarification. Does that statement mean the communications director deleted the log for that day? I imagine the call log is limited only by the phone’s available memory, although I could be wrong. And if it’s a government provided phone, isn’t that call log likely a public record?
Why does it seem like this kerfluffle isn’t going to go away quickly?
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The cell phone company has the log information. Data can always be found.
“Why does it seem like this kerfluffle isn’t going to go away quickly?”
Answer: Because we crave finding someone else to blame ….. even when it achieves nothing. You can blame the Missionaries for that.
So they only proof they aren’t lying to cover their asses was mysteriously deleted? How convenient.
I was inside Diamond Head crater when the alert went off but I did not get it. Cell reception is bad there. I left the crater within a few minutes to get a message from my wife asking about the text alert. What alert? We both have the same TMobile service (family plan). I understand that I may have missed the first alert due to location but I also did not get the “all clear” text later. I understand that many did not get the alerts.
This problem was going waaay before Ige. Remember the day-long power outage a few years ago? Like this time, stations played music and other programming with no news updates from civil defense or emergency management department. That lasted all day with folks stuck in highrises. and no information going out to visitors from Japan on what was happening. I saw a whole family stuffed in a sedan caring for their grandma on oxygen and trying to comfort her by running the air conditioning.
Hawaii’s emergency management agency and civil defense have operated this way for years so its nice to have them finally called out on it. Don’t blame Ige for inheriting their incompetence.
Ige got a call 2 minutes after the alert. Ige fucked up. [comment edited]
Well that was unnecessary.
agreed.
I was way out of line and I apologize.
I’m very familiar with the technology involved. Everything can be recovered if the will exists. The will doesn’t exist.
Just log in to the phone’s online cell provider account and all the call logs are there for at least the last six months.
Someone’s trying to hide something, and not even doing a good job covering things up. When the phone logs come out, we’ll know why there was such a desperate and clumsy attempt to hide the truth, and the coverup will have just made things worse
the phone company can easily do a data dump, Gov. Ige should know that very well as he is a former HI Tel employee.