What a lame, pathetic explanation.
The war in the Pacific turned on us decoding a Japanese message that the water plant at Midway was broken.
Intelligence is the gathering and putting-together of small bits of information.
Hillary provided our enemies with that.
The interesting fact was we “planted” the story to make sure Midway was the Japanese target. We even sent the message in the clear to make sure they got it. When they sent out their message informing their units of the desalination plants failure we knew we had them. We had been decoding their messages for awhile. We did not know for sure where their invasion fleet was headed. The fake report sealed the deal.
Midway was really important in making sure the war ended in 1945 but in reality the war ended in some respects when they attacked Pearl Harbor. The sneak attack assured we would never stop until they were defeated and Japan never had a realistic expectation of defeating the U.S. It just would have taken us a little longer. They were hoping to get us war weary and we would quit. The mess up on the timing of the declaration of war blew that idea forever. Yamamoto knew that.