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.
Ping. Food for thought.
I don't think she's a leftist mole, and while she has a right to write about whatever she wants, I just wonder. I'll read her book when it comes out, but seems to me she's the amongst the conservative crowd who just LOVE racial profiling as long as they aren't the ones being profiled. Besides she's no different from Sean Hannity pushing his book with sensationalism. I wonder how much of her book is about the Japanese and how much is profiling islamic terrorists?