It's not clear who should be blamed for the Hawaii event, except for general government incompetence. It was a planned drill, but the exact time of the drill wa

It's not clear who should be blamed for the Hawaii event, except for general government incompetence. It was a planned drill, but the exact time of the drill was purposefully not communicated to the team which handles the alert, to see how they respond. The manager of that team read out the alert text and concluded with: "This is not a drill. This is not a drill. This is not a drill." The guy whose responsibility to push out the alert had to make a split-second decision. He knew there was a drill happening sometime that day, but his boss said (three times!) that this was not the drill. Better safe than sorry: he pushes the button. I can't really fault him. Arguably the boss-man should face the repercussions for saying it wasn't a drill when it was, but then that's also kinda the point of the drill--to see how the team would handle a "live" situation. Maybe their interface should have been mocked or the actual alert disabled right before the drill, unbeknownst to them? So it is the drill planners that are responsible? It's really hard to nail down an individual at fault here, rather than general bureaucratic incompetence.