[maddog55]

A rather bizarre comparison to say the least.
The article forgets to mention: The disclosures were legal under wartime legislation.

The Census Bureau helped lobby Congress to pass the Second War Powers Act in March 1942, authorizing census data to be shared with other government agencies “for use in connection with the conduct of war.” The provision expired in 1947.

The Bureau denied its role for decades despite scholarly evidence to the contrary.

Bottom line is that it was known, just denied until recently.

[cgbg]

Bottom line is that it was known, just denied until recently.

Let us be absolutely clear--the US Census Bureau refuses to officially acknowledge this ever happened to this day.

Legal or not, it was a secret--a kept secret.

That is the key point--nobody in the government chose to tell those affected the truth--and they refuse to do so to this day.

Don't try to sugar-coat it.

The reason I am so familiar with this issue is that I worked as a supervisor for the Census Bureau many decades ago, and we were told in our training and were told to train others to say that the Census bureau had _never_ released Census data about individuals to other government agencies.

That was a lie.

I was trained with a lie.

I trained others based on that lie.

Census takers repeated the lie.

This was a big &^%$ing deal to me when I learned about it many years later.