I just finished reading “At Dawn We Slept,” an account of the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor which killed about 3,000 Americans. On Dec. 18, 1941, 11 days after the Dec. 7 attack, President Roosevelt ordered the Roberts Commission formed to investigate who was responsible for allowing the surprise attack to happen and how it could have been avoided.
The commission convened on Dec. 22, 1941, and issued its report on Jan. 23, 1942. President Roosevelt released it to the press for publication on Jan. 25, 1942, just 46 days after the attack.
I find it disturbing that nine months after the similar 9-11 surprise attack, President Bush not only maintains that it is unpatriotic to ask for an investigation similar to the Roberts Commission, but that there was no “intelligence failure.”
Stanwood
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