Yep. He did a good job.
Not really. People would like to say that he was exhonerated posthumously by new documents that have emerged through declassification. However, he was not "right" about any individual person that he accused. He was correct in the general sense but not in any specific sense. McCarthy was not the one who fingered Hiss.
At any rate the congressional hearings were completely fraudulent. They were a smokescreen to convince the public that the Congress itself had not been compromised. However, the Congress itself amended the tax code to exempt members of communist organizations from the social security tax.
That should blow some minds but apparently it doesnt. US Code Title 26 Section 3121(b)(17) is quite specific however and what I am asserting can be easily verified...
Let's have a look:
Section USC 26, 3121(b) defines "employment"
For purposes of this chapter, the term "employment" means any service, of whatever nature, performed (A) by an employee for the person employing him, irrespective of the citizenship or residence of either, (i) within the United States.......except that such term shall not include -....
....(17) service in the employ of any organization which is performed (A) in any year during any part of which such organization is registered, or there is in effect a final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board requiring such organization to register, under the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, as a Communist-action organization, a Communist-front organization, or a Communist-infiltrated organization, and (B) after June 30, 1956;
Again I must repeat....this exemption was passed by a majority of Congress. When many of us claim that this Nation was long ago taken over by Communists (and the current administration is full of them) we're not just whistling Dixie.