Executive order 9066 authorized the placement of all Americans with Japanese heritage in internment camps. FDR stated that it was necessary to take all precautions against espionage and sabotage, and used his power as the commander in chief of the military to order the Secretary of War to create militarized locations for people to stay. Roosevelt gave the military officials the power to decide who was to be sent to those areas and for how long. He also ensured that the Secretary provided those persons adequate food, water, shelter, and transportation. FDR emphasized that his authority to carry out this order superseded the Attorney General's power to prohibit those areas from use. FDR called upon other government officials to help military commanders provide "medical aid, hospitalization, food, clothing, transportation, use of land, shelter, and other supplies, equipment, utilities, facilities, and services". FDR also noted that executive order 9066 did not undermine executive order No. 8972 and that it does not minimize the role of the FBI.
During times of fear, people allow their rights and the rights of others to be impeded on. The Espionage Act of 1917 took away freedom of speech when it came to internal matters. In 2013, Edward Snowden was disillusioned to the ethics of the project he was working on in the CIA, which was violating peoples' privacy with extreme surveillance, and leaked information to the press. He was charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and has asylum in an undisclosed location in Moscow today.
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