Pearl Harbor: The Seeds and Fruits of Infamy - Ludwig von Mises ...

The Public Had Questions 361
errors in judgment, without giving aid or comfort to the enemy.
However, such admissions might have led our own people to ask
embarrassing questions. For instance, who was responsible for
providing the commanders in the fi eld with intelligence? Who
had the responsibility for seeing that they were properly warned
and adequately equipped and supplied? And why was the fl eet
headquartered at Pearl Harbor anyway?
Knox said the president would launch a formal investigation
into the attack. In response, the two houses of Congress agreed to
drop their proposals to conduct their own investigations. 24
24 Th e New York Times, December 16, 1941, p. 7.