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He was fiercely opposed to internment. he thought it was wrong. he fought it. his case went all the way to the supreme court, and fred korematsu in the sup court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fact, at the time, had all sorts of contrary evidence. they had all these internal reports. they had intelligence documents. they had findings from within the war department that totally disputed this contention they were maintaining publicly that there was a consensus within the military of a need to lock these japanese americans up. when it came time to defend the internment camps in court, the government lied to the court ....
Koramatsu in the supreme court lost. they cited real military dangers presented by the government to justify the internment policy. what peter irons later discovered in those dusty boxes of government documents years later is that there was no such clear determination of military dangers that justified locking up all japanese americans. the justice department, in fact, at the time had all sorts of contrary evidence. they had all these internal reports. they had intelligence documents. they had findings from within the war department that totally disputed this contention they were maintaining publicly that there was a consensus within the military of a need t lock these japanese americans up. when it came time to defend the internment camps in court, the government lied to the court when they withheld all of that contrary evidence from the government s own files about the wobbliness of this contention that there was some military ....