We broke the Japanese code "Magic" before WW11. Why is this not mentio

Question: We broke the Japanese code "Magic" before WW11!. Why is this not mentioned in connection with internment

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"Magic" (Japan's diplomatic code) was equal in importance to the "Enigma" intercepts of German signals, but its role is much less known!. It was the most valuable back-door entry to Berlin, thanks to an overly talkative Japanese military attache stationed there!.

Actually, there are interconnections, but its uncomfortable to acknowledge the reasons for US and Canadian government suspicions about the loyalty of Japanese residing in the US and its territories, as well as in Canada!.

A "shopping list of secrets" to which Tokyo wanted answers
was one of the intercepted signals to the Honolulu consulate in US possession before Pearl Harbor!. (That evidence too got lost in the system in Washington, DC!.)

Naval intelligence had prepared a study to try to assess the loyalties of Japanese citizens born in Japan but resident-aliens in the US, the most suspected group!. It concluded that a minority could be supporters of Japan!.

And yes, there were Japanese spies active in the US before and during the war!. About 20,000 Japanese-Americans fought for the Emperor against the US!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Japanese military code was only partially broken!.
The internment camps were another matter entirely!. California had a long history of hating the Japanese, and Roosevelt felt (probably correctly) that the Japanese citizens would be the target of race riots and maybe even extermination!. The motivation for the internment was mixed - to protect the Japanese (who were cleanly housed and fed a normal diet); to prevent possible spies in the Japanese community from contacting Japan!. You could get out of the internment camp by joining the Army to go fight in Europe!.

But the Californians got greedy!. They took all the property and land the Japanese Americans had to leave behind, and never even apologized for this!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

One has to do with political/military activity, the other has to do with violating the Constitutional rights of American citizens without due process!. I don't see what one has to do with the other!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I don't see a connection!. Internment was awful and a pure violation of our Constitution and breaking the code was a military matter!.!.!.

That's like saying!.!.!.Do you walk to school or carry your lunch!?Www@QuestionHome@Com