FDR’s administration withheld information that would have undermined the case for internment camps

Published May 31, 2011 4:00am ET

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was possibly the worst thing a U.S. President has ever done to his people. It now looks like the Roosevelt administration was not only morally and factually wrong in making the decision, but plainly dishonest in defending it.