Did you read Stinnett's book, published in 2000 and based on newly released documents? I thought he made a compelling and well-documented case, albeit without ever having gotten a sworn statement of guilt from FDR.
As I see it, the solution that would end public speculation about unknowns, murky links and circumstantial (though substantial) inferences is to release the remaining state secrets 50 or more years old, and that should include even the documents that go all the way back to WWI. History deserves better answers.
BTW, this is not to argue that the PDFs should be released to the Kean panel -- which would jeopardize our ability to produce sound intelligence estimates in our War on Terror -- if they were be subject to political potshots and second guessing.
Yes I did. Unfortunetely Stinnet neglects to mention that Japanese " admirals code" wasn't broken until 9 February 1943. Thus his entire thesis falls apart. A decoded message that was decrypted long after Pearl Harbor has no bearing on the events of Pearl Harbor.
His thesis that 4 US submarines spotted Kido Butai is laughable. The commanders and executive officers of those alledged subs would have reported those sightings and RDF logs and communications logs would have shown those entries. They would have been logged at Pearl and San Diego, Bremeton and certainly the Japanese would have picked up the transmissions and logged them. The Brits and Australians would have logged them. They would have had five point RDF fixes on the transmissions.
In order for events to have transpired as Stinnet says, it would require a conspiracy of hundreds of people. From senior admirals ( excluding Kimmel and His deputy) right down to enlisted radiomen from four different counties.