McCarthy Transcripts Point to Cover-up by Justice Department

NewsMax.com ^ | 5/7/2003 | Wes Vernon

[liberalnot]

yeah, i agree. this area needs more investigation.

there was a brit who used to do editorials for the orange county register when it was still libertarian.

he said that he had worked on the east coast as a journalist when younger, and gave time magazine as an example, and was told over and over: use "tricky dick" as often as possible to describe nixon.

many american institutions were infiltrated: the public school system, the universities--which instituted tenure to protect the political freedom of faculty, i.e., commies, the u.s. state department, the united nations,...

nixon had lots of problems, as have all republican presidents with the state department. nixon tried to shut them out. too bad dick was a megamaniac.

the united nations did us in during the korean war. they passed on american military planning to the chicoms. and they did the same in vietnam.

notice how well this last war went--without the united nations!

[Bonaparte]

Oh, I don't dispute that McCarthy became quite popular with the general public after making the communist issue his. But his support on the hill and in the WH was lukewarm. And when he stepped on fellow Senators' toes, broke the unwritten Senate rules and embarassed Ike, everybody turned against him, including Republicans. And that started even before his censure.

You're right that Ike didn't want to touch the issue. He had no idea how many cans of worms this was going to open up. He had already seen what Truman went through. And that is the sort of thing I was referring to as a "third rail." It's certainly no coincidence that McCarthy made the issue of communists in government his personal property -- nobody else wanted it. Even Nixon only took the Hiss matter so far. It was somebody else who sent Hiss away to Lewisburg.

[DPB101]

McCarthy's subcommittee was in the Senate and only investigated security risks in the federal government.

True but that cast a wide net. A fascinating account of the Federal government's purchase of $30 million worth of goose down from Communist China is in Volume One of the transcripts. The committee was also concerned that the $130 million a year the government was spending on books, films and cultural events to fight communism overseas was going to writers who were working for the Soviets. That is why Daschle Hammett, Helen Goldfrank (Vol.2) and other writers were called to testify.

[Bonaparte]

That is fascinating -- especially in light of Cohn's trip to Europe with his young lawyer "friend," ostensibly to clear up just this sort of problem. Gee, I wonder who convinced Joe that printed matter in Europe required such urgent attention.

[DPB101]

Tragic that Robert Kennedy was not McCarthy's lead lawyer.

[Bonaparte]

Hehe. Well, yes and no, as they say. Kennedy's anti-communist credentials were in order and he had no skeletons in his closet at that time, but he lacked Cohn's legal brilliance and he had almost as much trouble governing his temper as McCarthy did. Did you see him questioning Giancana on the McClellan committee?

[DPB101]

No...I would like to see the transcript and pass it around. Kids today don't realize there were once Democrats who fought both organized crime and communism. I try to tell them but they don't believe me.

[rwfromkansas]

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[Jimbaugh]

I can't believed they lied.

[muawiyah]

Getting out my 250 watt interrogators light, may we start over:

En zo Noombers Gai, you haf not answered zee ques-tion vich vas "Can you name anyone who was not guilty"?

Pushing the light aside, I note:

Another poster listed some folks involved in the Army-McCarthy Hearings who were guilty - it should seem to be a simple matter to begin naming the innocent.

Just one name, eh?!

[Bonaparte]

In fairness to NG, it should be acknowledged that McCarthy called George Marshall a Kremlin collaborator as early as 1951. When Ike came into office, he continued to foolishly attack the President's friend.

[Paul Ross]

Don't blame McCarthy, it was Edward R. Morrow, a communist sympathizer, and a whole enterprise of fellow-travellers which did the smear. He was actually blameless and fully justified in almost every case. Under what circumstances with national security on the line is it EVER proper to refuse to cooperate and testify to a legitimate question, particularly when the offer of closed hearings is available? I can't think of any. Do you always believe democRAT and CP-USSR spin?

[Paul Ross]

[Paul Ross]

Headsup!

[Paul Ross]

Yes, indeed. What he could have done with Venona...he would have blown apart the smear campaign against him.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[DPB101]

Under what circumstances with national security on the line is it EVER proper to refuse to cooperate and testify to a legitimate question, particularly when the offer of closed hearings is available? I can't think of any.

Orwellian isn't it? Traitors are seen by the left as people of principle defending the constitution. It it chilling to read the transcripts and see the contempt and arrogance the Soviet agents and supporters showed to congress.

Has anyone one left ever expressed concern about the actions of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) between 1934 and 1937? That is when a Soviet agent ran the committee and went after German Americans.

[Travis McGee]

Please list the innocent people you referred to. Just list them.

Taking the 5th when you ARE a communist agent does NOT make you "innocent."

[Agamemnon]

You forgot Henry Wallace, Roosevelt's Commie VP nominee, endorsed by CPUSA for President in 1948

[Agamemnon]

Say what you will about McCarthy/Army, but by the time of the hearings, the Army's and State Department's involvement in allowing the Soviets to capture territory while we sat at the Elbe in 1945 was already a sore spot, aka Roosevelt's Potsdam betrayal (courtesy of Henry Wallace, maybe?).

Add to that the betrayal of Chaing Kai Shek and the Nationalist Chinese by sabotaging-by-dumping-at-sea his much needed military shipments from us to combat ChiComs easily leads one to believe that Communist infiltration at the highest levels, including the military, was something seriously at issue and in need of exposure/investigation. And we still ask, "Who lost China?" I'll bet McCarthy knew.

In time we may find that McCarthy's information was more accurate than the media once thought -- or was willing to admit. When one Senator takes on Hollywood AND commie sympathizers in the US military, it's a bigger fish than he or anyone alone would be capable of frying.