I would appreciate it if you didn’t associate this situation with “McCarthyism”.
Joseph McCarthy vigorously resisted releasing ANY names on people in the public hearings, since (in his words) they had not been tried in a court of law and might be ultimately be proven innocent. He referred to them all as “Case #1” and so on.
He was FORCED to reveal names by liberals on the other side of the aisle and the media who had no qualms about ruining the lives of people whose ruin might be a useful instrument in discrediting McCarthy and the anti-communist cause.
This is another liberal slander...most people don’t realize it, and I would guess you probably didn’t either. I knew exactly what you meant, though.
I stand corrected...I will have to read more about those time..(It was little bofore my time) but I guess I learned the liberal interpretation in school and media..