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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (54149)	2/17/2006 9:41:29 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

LOL You are such a freakin' dumbass.....

To: bentway who wrote (54149)	2/18/2006 2:07:27 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations You are wrong as usual...but you won't have the balls to apologize....typical of you goatee wearing, chardonanny swilling, pansy ass POSs.... McCarthy was never on HUAC. By reason of seniority in 1953 he became chair of the Senate Committee on Government Operations and its Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy appointed Roy Cohn as chief counsel and Robert Kennedy as assistant counsel to the subcommittee. McCarthy's committee, unlike the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, focused on government institutions. It first made an investigation into bureaucracy at Voice of America, then forced the withdrawal of supposedly pro-Communist literature from the State Department's overseas information library. Meanwhile, McCarthy continued to make accusations of Communist influence within the government. This angered Eisenhower, who, while not criticizing the popular Senator publicly, began behind-the-scenes work to remove him from his position of influence. Several noted persons resigned from the committee fairly early into McCarthy's administration of it. These resignations led to the appointment of one "B. Matthews" as executive director of the board. Matthews was a former member of several "Communist-front" organizations, in which he claimed to have joined more than any other American. However, when he fell out of favor with the radical groups of the 1930s, he became a fervent anti-Communist. Matthews later resigned due to his portrayal of Communist sympathies among the nation's Protestant clergy in a paper called "Reds in Our Churches," which outraged several Senators. Through this critical period, however, McCarthy maintained control of the subcommittee and of whom it employed or chose not to. This course of action resulted in several more resignations. During 1953 and the first three months of 1954, McCarthy's committee examined 653 witnesses. These individuals first appeared in closed executive sessions and their identities were not revealed to the public. Some, often those who had invoked their Fifth Amendment rights during private questioning, were then called before public sessions where their names were made public. There were accusations of abuse and browbeating of witnesses at these hearings, though some witnesses reported that they were treated fairly and in a non-abusive manner. en.wikipedia.org