There we go, again. Associating Senator Joe McCarthy with the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
There were more Democrats on the HUAC than Republicans.
another distinction without a difference
This is why American socialists are so dangerous. Even when they're blatanly wrong, the demand that the erroneous information be believed.
How am I wrong ?
McCarthy'sand HUAC's witch hunting epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA.
Even though I know the difference between McCarthy's and HUAC's "investigations" .
It changes nothing .
You're wrong, because you keep trying to associate McCarthy with the HUAC.
Name one person wdho was
actually investigated by McCarthy's committee.
that does not make me wrong but thanks for playing. they were both investigation the spread of communism in the us.
as I've said before both "
epically failed at its intended purpose.
There was no large scale elimination of communism in the good old USA."
how bout these.
Tydings Committee[edit]
McCarthy himself was taken aback by the massive media response to the Wheeling speech, and he was accused of continually revising both his charges and figures. In
Salt Lake City, Utah, a few days later, he cited a figure of 57, and in the Senate on February 20, he claimed 81.[
citation needed] During a five-hour speech,
[41] McCarthy presented a case-by-case analysis of his 81 "loyalty risks" employed at the State Department. It is widely accepted that most of McCarthy's cases were selected from the so-called "Lee list", a report that had been compiled three years earlier for the
House Appropriations Committee. Led by a former
Federal Bureau of Investigation agent named Robert E. Lee, the House investigators had reviewed security clearance documents on State Department employees, and had determined that there were "incidents of inefficiencies"
[42] in the security reviews of 108 employees. McCarthy hid the source of his list, stating that he had penetrated the "iron curtain" of State Department secrecy with the aid of "some good, loyal Americans in the State Department".
[43] In reciting the information from the Lee list cases, McCarthy consistently exaggerated, representing the hearsay of witnesses as facts and converting phrases such as "inclined towards Communism" to "a Communist".
[44]
Senator
Millard Tydings
In response to McCarthy's charges, the Senate voted unanimously to investigate, and the
Tydings Committee hearings were called.
[45] This was a subcommittee of the
United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations set up in February 1950 to conduct "a full and complete study and investigation as to whether persons who are disloyal to the United States are, or have been, employed by the Department of State".
[46] Many Democrats were incensed at McCarthy's attack on the State Department of a Democratic administration, and had hoped to use the hearings to discredit him. The Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, Senator Millard Tydings, was reported to have said, "Let me have him [McCarthy] for three days in public hearings, and he'll never show his face in the Senate again."
[47]
During the hearings, McCarthy moved on from his original unnamed Lee list cases and used the hearings to make charges against nine specific people:
Dorothy Kenyon,
Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson,
Gustavo Durán,
Owen Lattimore,
Harlow Shapley, Frederick Schuman,
John S. Service, and
Philip Jessup. Some of them no longer worked for the State Department, or never had; all had previously been the subject of charges of varying worth and validity. Owen Lattimore became a particular focus of McCarthy's, who at one point described him as a "top Russian spy". Throughout the hearings, McCarthy employed colorful rhetoric, but produced no substantial evidence, to support his accusations.[
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