That was international surveillance and legal. Also a very good idea, I don't know why liberals want to weaken our defenses.
Terrorists are a real threat as 911 showed. Its unfortunate liberals have adopted them as a new "victim" class to be protected - ala Rosie O'Donnell and you.
With McCarthy leftwing liberals ("communist" only in name in the 40's when communism was not a dirty word and had nothing to do with what the Soviets made it),
Whatever McCarthy's faults, there really were communists active in the US in the 40's and 50's - they even gave nuclear secrets to the USSR:
The decrypted messages gave important insights into Soviet behavior in the period during which duplicate one-time pads were used. With the first break into the code, Venona revealed the existence of Soviet espionage[5] at Los Alamos National Laboratories.[6] Identities soon emerged of American, Canadian, Australian, and British spies in service to the Soviet government, including Klaus Fuchs, Alan Nunn May and Donald Maclean, a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. Others worked in Washington in the State Department, Treasury, Office of Strategic Services,[7] and even the White House.
The decrypts show that the U.S. and other nations were targeted in major espionage campaigns by the Soviet Union as early as 1942. Among those identified are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Alger Hiss; Harry Dexter White,[8] the second-highest official in the Treasury Department; Lauchlin Currie,[9] a personal aide to Franklin Roosevelt; and Maurice Halperin,[10] a section head in the Office of Strategic Services.
The identification of individuals mentioned in Venona transcripts is sometimes problematic, since people with a "covert relationship" with Soviet intelligence are referenced by code names.[11] Further complicating matters is the fact that the same person sometimes had different code names at different times, and the same code name was sometimes reused for different individuals. In some cases, notably that of Alger Hiss, the matching of a Venona code name to an individual is disputed. In many other cases, a Venona code name has not yet been linked to any person. According to authors John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, the Venona transcripts identify approximately 349 Americans who they claim had a covert relationship with Soviet intelligence, though less than half of these have been matched to real-name identities.[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VENONA
Your claim that communists of the past were simply harmless liberals illustrates that for some reason, you liberals are sympathetic to both communists and terrorists even though they are very unlike. It seems liberals have this tendency to always side with America's enemies, don't you?
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