Sen. Ron Paul might want to review the history of Henry L. Stimson, who was secretary of war and then secretary of state in the Hoover administration.
When secretary of war he made the comment "Gentlemen do not read one another's mail" when decoded Japanese intercepts came across his desk. President Franklin Roosevelt brought Mr. Stimson into his administration as secretary of war prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941.
If Mr. Stimson had the same attitude in reading Japanese intercepts in 1941 as he had in the Hoover administration it might explain why the Japanese were able to make a sneak attack. See pages 89-90 in "The Pacific Campaign" by Dan van der Vat for authority on the comment and Wikipedia for Mr. Henry L. Stimson's career.
Those who fail to heed history are bound to repeat it.
James E. Hurley
Vancouver
