Roosevelt knew all about the attack

In Damon Harley’s June 19 letter in the Herald, he noted the speed with which the investigation took place in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor compared to the attack on the World Trade Center (“Intelligence Failures: FDR took a smarter course in WWII”). The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise to everyone but President Roosevelt and some of his cabinet. There was an isolationist element at the time that understandably did not want the U.S. to get into World War II. But Roosevelt wanted to get the U.S. into it so that it wouldn’t be left out of any changes that happen in world domination.

This is no secret. Robert Stinnet wrote a book entitled “Day of Deceit,” for which he spent 14 years using the Freedom of Information Act to get copies of the long unclassified documents that show that Roosevelt knew about the attack. One sign of that is that all the major naval vessels that would have been in port were far out to sea. Everyone should read Stinnet’s book; it is quite telling.

Lynnwood