"Russ" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 01:08:18 -0700, "Hawke"
wrote:


Stuart still writes to Joseph McCarthy I expect.
--
Cliff


Nah, he's probably never even heard of him.

Hawke

Which reminds me..arnt you Leftists ashamed of having trashed the
man..McCarthy, and it turns out he was right after all?

Gunner


Since when?


Actually, from the beginning. I'm certainly no fan of "Tail-gunner
Joe", but he did have the "communists in the government" thing right.
The Venona project was able to decrypt Soviet communications despite
the use of the Vernam cypher because of the re-use of one-time pads.
These decrypts point to multiple Soviet agents in all three branches
of the government, particularlt the Department of State.

Were there "Communists" within the government? I fail to find any
sane person saying otherwise.

War Joe correct? Only insofar as a stopped clock is correct... Maybe
a couple of the people he accused might have been Communists, but it
wasn't by his efforts.

Joe was a politician trying to make name recognition. Well, he got THAT,
di'n't he!

But Runner is a fascist-apologist from way back, and hardly a good source
of factual material.

Dan