Congress repealed emergency detention just as the camp legend claimed construction began

Evidence

Congress authorized emergency detention in the Internal Security Act of 1950, passed over President Harry Truman’s veto; but the detention provision was repealed in 1971—ironically, just at the time that, according to the concentration-camp legend, the creation of a series of permanent detention facilities was getting under way. — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 375

Categorization

• XREF: The irony — legal basis removed just as the alleged building began — is a classic conspiracy-theory structural point worth keeping alongside Barkun’s larger treatment of the camp myth.