Howard Coble is a congressman who represents North Carolina's Sixth District (including Greensboro and High Point). He is also the chair of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. A month ago, Coble was asked on a radio call-in program whether he supported the internment of Arab Americans. He said he did not, but then volunteered that he agreed with FDR's decision to put Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. He explained that they were interned "for their own safety" and also because there were undoubtedly some Japanese Americans who intended to do the U.S. harm. When it was pointed out to him that his theory of the internment was discredited claptrap, he insisted that he was just "stating historical fact." He ultimately said that he did not mean to offend anyone, and agreed that the internment was very cruel and looks like a mistake from today's perspective, but was justified at the time.