The Roosevelt administration interned Japanese Americans despite intelligence showing no threat.

Evidence

Historians of Japanese internment frequently point out that the Roosevelt administration’s choice to intern the West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans was not driven by military necessity. The administration’s own intelligence often confirmed that the community as a whole was not at all a threat to national security. But rather than following the course of justice, the administration exploited the jingoism and racism of the moment. Something similar had happened now. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 154

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the moral-panic framework — moral entrepreneurs exploiting public fear; connects to the reader’s notes on moral panics. — connects to: Smith’s circle missed deliberate planning in Roosevelt’s every move as Governor and future rival — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1282
• SEED: An essay angle: governments choosing politically expedient mass detention despite their own intelligence disproving the threat — the pattern across 1941 and 2001.