Creating The Enemies You Need

"But as the Army board had concluded at the time, and subsequent
de-classified documents confirmed, Washington DC knew the attack was
coming, knew exactly where the Japanese fleet was, and knew where it
was headed. On November 29th, Secretary of State Hull showed United
Press reporter Joe Leib a message with the time and place of the
attack, and the New York Times in it's special 12/8/41 Pearl Harbor
edition, on page 13, reported that the time and place of the attack had
been known in advance! The much repeated claim that the Japanese fleet
maintained radio silence on it's way to Hawaii was a lie."