I am not familiar with the "methodology" of the Munson study, only that it was specifically to determine the loyalty of Japanese American citizens, took place over several years, determined that they demonstrated a "high degree of loyalty," and their findings were corroborated by Naval Intelligence. I'll guess though: They spied on them, and when they looked at the intelligence gathered over years, wrote the report. Since the study was corroborated by Naval Intelligence, I conclude that they'd gather some intelligence of their own on that community.
"Results so explosive as to be hidden from sight"? How explosive is the news to a population in a "A Jap is a Jap" / "Yellow Peril" mood that a multi-year study of JA citizens showed them to have a "high degree of loyalty," and that the study was corroborated by Naval Intelligence? It sounds, in fact, calming, to me.
Perhaps if the citizens who were so scared of their farmer and grocer neighbors (and pleased enough to buy their vacant homes and farms and goods for pennies on the dollar) had been allowed to see that report, their hatred and depredations would have been mitigated. (If mitigation was desired.) Army Intelligence, the FBI, and the Justice Department did see it, and they all opposed the internments.
Even in retrospect, you don't.
JC, you asked me a question about the victims of Karla Faye Tucker. This offers me an opportunity. I'm proposing that we trade answers!
You've written that you used to teach, and didn't like reading the papers of your students, and made little comment on them.
I've wondered why it is that you routinely decline to answer questions I ask of you, and wondered to myself whether such condescension might represent an extension of your self-described professorial mode.
I've also observed, with frustration, that a change of subject is a routine response on your part to a question posed to you about a position you have taken. Or, I may post several points to you and have you ignore all but one, leaving me wondering why I bothered.
I'll post my question, the one I'd really like to get an answer to, next, separately. Then I'll post for discussion by the thread your interesting analogy of the Japanese American situation in some respects to that of Iraqi Americans.
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