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To: Sully- who wrote (65062)	3/25/2008 4:23:59 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

Bump, bump, bump.... another [lib] myth bites the dust.... It's a lie that gets regurgitated today each time the word McCarthyism is used as an insulting epithet. The Real McCarthy Revealed By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 4:20 PM PT National Security: The latest sin ex-President Clinton is accused of is "McCarthyism." But a new, meticulously researched book corrects misconceptions about the abuse of that term by the media and the left. Over the weekend, a retired Air Force general and Barack Obama supporter charged the former president with McCarthyism for seeming to question the patriotism of the Illinois senator, now leading the Democratic race for president. The Obama and Hillary campaigns both soon scrambled to apologize — such sting does that venomous word carry. The dictionary defines McCarthyism as "personal attacks on individuals by means of widely publicized indiscriminate allegations, especially on the basis of unsubstantiated charges." More than a half-century after the death of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, even many anti-communist intellectuals join in the almost universal revilement of the Wisconsin Republican's memory. "Surely the man who did the greatest damage to the cause of anti-communism was the American Senator Joe McCarthy," Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum casually declares in her 2003 history of the Soviet Gulags. British historian Andrew Roberts in his "History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900" writes that McCarthy "did not in fact discover a single communist." But in 600 pages of text, backed up by 22 pages of scrupulous reference notes, veteran reporter and editor M. Stanton Evans, founder of Washington's National Journalism Center, proves that Applebaum, Roberts and countless others have swallowed whole a lie — because they never bothered to go back and check the facts. It's a lie that gets regurgitated today each time the word McCarthyism is used as an insulting epithet. Near the start of "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies," Evans asks, "Can we in fact name one certifiable communist McCarthy ever came up with in all his speeches and contentious hearings?" According to Evans, "it's indeed hard to cite one such person — just as it's hard to eat one potato chip or salted peanut." He then provides a list of 10 McCarthy targets that turned out, indeed, to have been spying on this country. The names, now lost in the obscurity of history, include FDR's executive assistant, Lauchlin Currie, identified as Soviet agent Page by the Venona decrypts made public in the 1990s. Currie, McCarthy said in 1951, was "at the Washington end of the transmission belt conveying poisonous misinformation from Chungking" against anti-communist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek. Falsified information from our diplomats in China slandering Chiang was a big factor in Mao's communists gaining power there. Venona shows that Currie in 1944 gave the KGB vital intelligence that FDR used to betray Poland's free government in exile, thus giving Stalin the green light to conquer the country. Another of the 10 Evans cites is Mary Jane Keeney, "listed by the FBI as a courier for the Communist Party while working for the government," as McCarthy noted in early 1950. She, along with her husband, Phillip, are confirmed by Venona to have been agents. By the time McCarthy outed her, she had left the State Department for the United Nations. The history books make McCarthy's enemies out as selfless heroes. Most famously, Army counsel Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings thundered "Have you left no sense of decency?" when McCarthy supposedly smeared Welch's legal assistant, Fred Fisher, by charging he had been a member of the National Lawyers Guild, listed by the attorney general as a communist front. That Welch outburst also was a lie. Evans reproduces the New York Times article in which Welch himself publicly confirmed — weeks earlier — that Fisher belonged to the front, and for which Welch removed Fisher from his staff. Today the case of ex-FBI and CIA agent Nada Nadim Prouty, who in November pleaded guilty to conspiracy, illicit computer access and naturalization fraud, proves that even a foreigner with terrorist links can infiltrate the U.S. government and access secrets. By bringing out the truth about the fight against communist spying, Evans reminds us: We still must beware the enemy within. ibdeditorials.com