True, but swept up with the relatively few "sleeper cell" agents were thousands of loyal, productive, law-abiding Americans who just happened to be of Japanese (and in several cases, Chinese) descent. "Extreme Vetting" would have been nice here. But on the other side of the coin: internment may have saved hundreds, if not thousands, of Japanese-American lives as the outrage over Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and its wartime atrocities would probably have led to a lot of murders.