You're condemning me, then.
Have you, by any chance, read Lowman's book MAGIC? If you have not, may I suggest you do so before opining on this subject. Before judging what the government did, you really should know why it did it.
By the way, I personally know Howard Coble. He is a very nice man. But I just can't believe he would make a statement like this. I have to wonder if this mistake on his part stems from the fact that his Chief of Staff, Ed McDonald, who has been with him since he was first elected, and was always with him and giving him great advice, recently left to go to work for the Maryland Governor. This could be fatal blow as far as his career goes.
I haven't read the book you reference. However, my book on the subject was written after General deWitt's recommendations to President Roosevelt had been declassified. In those documents, deWitt made the incredible argument that 1) there were no known instances of Japanese-American sabotage, and 2) that lack of any sabotage was proof that they were "well organized" and therefore "dangerous."
It was on the basis of deWitt's report, with the support of Governor Earl Warren of California, that President Roosevelt issued his Executive Order. (I think that Warren became a screaming liberal as Chief Justice in part as expiation for supporting both the internment of the Japanese-Americans, and also a prior California law that made it illegal for the Nissei to own farm land in California.)
It doesn't matter to me what anyone wrote about this situation without access to the WW II internal documents. I had those documents, and got some of them declassified for my book. I stand by my historical and constitutional conclusions on this subject.
Congressman Billybob
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