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I am interested in what she refers to as the intelligence background for Roosevelt's decision. It has been known for some time that shortly after the Navy designated Japan as the most likely future enemy and consolidated the fleet and moved its operational base to San Diego in 1923 intelligence gathering on the Japanese population on the West Coast began. Office of Naval Intelligence mounted a long term effort to penetrate Japanese cultural and ethnic organizations to determine if they were being operated as fronts and enabling groups for support of espionage and subversion. The individuals who conducted the penetration were well regarded Japanese Americans, a number of whom were involved in publishing Japanese language newspapers in California, who patriotically cooperated in the intelligence gathering operation. By the time of Pearl Harbor the Navy had a detailed file on the activities of those individuals who were determined to be genuine security risks. These numbered at less than a thousand.
So I would be most interested in reading what other intelligence versus prejudiced hysteria mongering supported Roosevelt's decision to relocate the Japanese population of the West Coast states. It may have been that the Japanese deluded themselves as to having a mass base for subversion and insurrection in California due to the exaggerated reports their agents fed the Japanese consuls in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

>>>"genuine risks. These numbered at less than a thousand."

Good point, and you are probably right. Looking back on Monday morning we probably could have put less of the Japanese away.

From what I can tell the real damage to the Japanese occured afterwards, when their properties were stolen or taken at little compensation.

Their internment could be excused for security reasons, the confiscation of their properties can not be excused at all. The local citizens conspired to take properties from their neighbors.

Hoppy

So I would be most interested in reading what other intelligence versus prejudiced hysteria mongering supported Roosevelt's decision to relocate the Japanese population of the West Coast states.

It was simple greed. People with the right connections (up to and including Earl Warren himself, IIRC) were able to exploit the situation to steal the internees' property.

The only remaining question is whether Malkin is an idiot or a leftist mole deliberately setting off this political stink bomb to harm the conservative cause.