Original sentence: Admiral William Harrison Standley, who served as a member of the Roberts Commission that accused Admiral Kimmel and General Short of dereliction of duty, later disavowed the report maintaining that “these two officers were martyred” and “if they had been brought to trial, both would have been cleared of the charge”.Furthermore, the the war warning listed only threats in the Far East and the US military high command was focused on the threat to MacArthur in the Philippines and to attacks on British and Dutch holdings 4000 or 5000 miles further west from Pearl.In Short's defense, this action was taken by in an effort to reduce the chance of sabotage, at the time considered by everyone the only real threat at Pearl Harbor.Kimmel did not take seriously enough an earlier war warning and did not prepare for an air attack at Pearl.Kimmel, was accused of being unprepared and charged with dereliction of duty
Edited sentence: Admiral William Harrison Standley, who served as a member of the Roberts Commission that accused Admiral Kimmel and General Short of “dereliction of duty”, later disavowed the report maintaining that “these two officers were martyred” and “if they had been brought to trial, both would have been cleared of the charge”.Kimmel, did not take seriously enough an earlier "war warning" and did not imagine that an air attack at Pearl was possible, whereas in fact the war warning listed only threats in the Far East and indeed the entire US military high command was focused on the threat to MacArthur in the Philippines and to attacks on British and Dutch holdings 4000 or 5000 miles further west from Pearl.Kimmel, was accused of being unprepared and charged with “dereliction of duty”.This is a spurious criticism, however, because this action was taken by General Short in an effort to reduce the chance of sabotage, at the time considered by everyone the only real threat at Pearl Harbor