[Congressman Billybob]

It is a false statement that the imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans had NOTHING to do with espionage. None of them were ever tried and convicted of any such crime. On the other hand, Italian- and German-Americans, who were not imprisoned, WERE convicted of such crimes.

I wrote one of the definitive books on this subject, Manzanar, about a camp of that name near Lone Pine in the Sierra Nevada. It's available in better libraries everywhere.

Congressman Billybob

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[SubMareener]

It is a false statement that the imprisonment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans had NOTHING to do with espionage. None of them were ever tried and convicted of any such crime.

I am not sure what those two sentences next to each other are meant to say. It is my assertion based on recent declassified papers, that the purpose of the "imprisonment" was to prevent espionage and sabotage without revealing the fact that we had broken the Japanese codes. Are you disputing this assertion or supporting it?