There was a time we had a “red scare” and communists were actively pursued, tried, and often incarcerated for espionage. But the libs (carrying water for the commies) pooh-poohed all that and said we were being hysterical, there was nothing to worry about, it was all in Republican heads. The press in the 50s endorsed that lib view. It was almost as if lots of Congress critters and the press were commies themselves — nah, couldn’t be.
Some guy named McCarthy paid a dear price for that. One Commie-fighter actually made a name for himself and went on to become POTUS (Nixon).
And when the old Soviet archives were opened, he was proven 90% correct.
A monument should be built to honor Joe McCarthy at the same time the commie West Pointer is booted out of the military.
From Wikipedia:
"...Julius Rosenberg had worked as a radar inspector at Fort Monmouth in 1942 and 1943. It is from the fort that he was accused and convicted of stealing proximity fuze plans and passing them on to the Soviet Union. Documents released by Russia after the Cold War showed that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a spy. Joseph McCarthy claimed in October 1953 that Julius Rosenberg had set up a wartime spy ring at Fort Monmouth, and that the ring might still be in operation. Two Fort Monmouth scientists, Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, fled to the Soviet Union. The hysteria surrounding Fort Monmouth and the Rosenbergs was not limited to Julius and Ethel; others with the last name Rosenberg (or Kaplan) lost their security clearance for no reason other than sharing a name with communists..."
(This, from Wikepedia is interesting on two fronts: First, that Ft. Monmouth was riddled with Soviet agents, not just the Rosenbergs, but many others, and they had an open and busy pipeline passing classified data of all levels to their Soviet handlers. Secondly, if anyone doubts the leftism of Wikipedia, and why it should never, ever be trusted as a political source, that last sentence beginning with "...The hysteria surrounding Fort Monmouth and the Rosenbergs...". There damn well should have been hysteria there. We had a white water river of information being sent to the Soviets from there.
There was also a dentist on the base, an Army Captain named Irving Peress who had been promoted to major, and was scheduled to be given an honorable discharge.
He was a full blown communist in full view in the US Army, but kept getting transferred from post to post one jump ahead of people on the base who would realize what was going on. (I think he had help in staying ahead of it too, since his security records were "misplaced" at some point.)
When he was inducted during the Korean War and given the rank of Captain in the Army, commensurate with his status in the civilian world, he signed statements denying he was a communist, subversive, or fascist etc. When he came to light and was asked questions about his time at Camp Kilmer in New Jersey, when asked if he tried to recruit military personnel into the communist party, had communist party meetings in his home with military personnel, if he had organized a communist cell at Ft. Kilmer, or if there existed at that time an active communist cell at Ft. Kilmer, he claimed Fifth Amendment rights on all of those questions.
This created another stink for McCarthy when he had General Zwicker on the stand (the commanding officer of the base, who was supposed to be a 'friendly' witness for McCarthy) and General Zwicker began to be evasive and uncooperative (regarding the lenient treatment of this communist Army officer who had been given promotion and was scheduled to be honorably discharged) which really ticked off McCarthy. When McCarthy asked him if someone who had lied, was a communist, and took the fifth when asked those questions should be retained in the military honorably, the General said yes, he should. McCarthy blew up at him and said: "Then, General, you should be removed from any command. Any general who has been given the honor of being promoted to a general and who says 'I will noprotect another general who protected Communists' is not fit to wear that uniform, General. I think it is a tremendous disgrace to the Army to have this sort of thing given to the public."
This is much the way I feel, but the general was a decorated WWII veteran, and the left used it to mobilize the Army-McCarthy hearings which eventually did McCarthy in.
I admit fully to feeling as McCarthy did, when I see this case of this Communist, Marxist Scumbag being passed from command to command, admitted to West Point, lying on his oath and being given a commission. There had to be hundreds of Army personnel from privates to generals who knew about this guy.