[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Haynes: ...President Truman in 1948 set up a massive loyalty program to remove Communists from federal employment.

Truman's Justice Department convicted the leadership of the CPUSA under the Smith Act, convicted Alger Hiss, and in 1950 arrested and later convicted the Rosenbergs, David Greenglass, Harry Gold, and Morton Sobell for espionage...
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Did this guy read the Venona files? That was just the tip of the iceberg.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Estrich: ...The Pro-Joe camp also ignores that McCarthy was a drunkard, a bully, and a man who ignored the liberties and constitutional protections he claimed to be trying to protect from the Communist Menace...

Hm... What liberties and constitutional protections did McCarthy ignore? The 'constitutional right' for registered communists to keep jobs in State and the military? I wonder if members of NAMBLA and satanics would have that same right?

[dix]

The Army had such a distrust of Truman that they didn't even tell him about the Venona files.

[CyberAnt]

Geeeeeez! You want these people to inform themselves before they open their ignorant mouths ..?? Shame!

Why on earth would these people want to read the truth for themselves? If they did - they would realize they don't have any case.

For Estrich to say McCarthy affected Hollywood and the arts is just a figment of her imagination. I'm reading Ann's book - and I can tell you the HUAC (a House group) was the group that went after the Communists in Hollywood - not McCarthy who was a SENATOR. Even Bill O'Reilly got this wrong and Ann soundly corrected him on national TV.