In sharp contrast to DeWitt's vicious report, the aptly named "Personal Justice Denied" is a report compiled by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, which was created under President Jimmy Carter.

In the early 1980s, the commission conducted their own review of the alleged threats that Japanese Americans posed to the United States during World War II. And guess what? They discovered there was no threat. And they also concluded that the imprisonment of 120,000 people was motivated by racism—that they were denied justice and forced to suffer.

The commission's research and subsequent report greatly impacted the U.S. government's response to the misdeeds of the past and contributed to the creation of the Civil Liberties Act, ratified later that decade. It also undid the false claims supported by John L. DeWitt that caused the mess in the first place.