No he didn't, he and Short were the scape goats of Washington. In today's terms, they were thrown under the buss.
Had they been provided the information that Washington had at least a day earlier, the devastation the Japanese created at PH likely would not have happened.
Baloney. Everyone knew war was imminent and was arrayed. The USS Ward sank a midget sub an hour and 11 minutes before the air attack.
He was poorly arrayed, had no response to that and was caught flat footed.
He was a bad as MacArthur in the Philippines.
It wasn’t just a scapegoat, it was a peacetime admiral not up to the job.
Ignoring the radar situation, Kimmel had sufficient float planes and submarines that had they been out on patrol, the Japanese fleet would have been detected early enough to go on alert.