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anticipate the attack "not for want of the relevant materials, but because of a pleth- ora of irrelevant ones." The "noise" of ex- traneous information, in other words, drowned out the "signal" of useful clues. In reality, Kahn states, there was a dearth of intelligence materials. "Not one [diplo- matic or naval] intercept, not one datum of intelligence ever said a thing about an attack on Pearl Harbor."
Some critics, including Admiral Hus- band...