LAST EDITED ON 07-25-17 AT 06:28 PM (EST)The wording was vague, I meant that McCarthy was Republican, as is Trump. So I appreciate your clearing that up.
Indeed, it was much more complicated than I stated, although I didn't rely on any Hollywood presented information. One also has to understand the history of and influence on McCarthy of Roy Cohn.
Cohn was part of the prosecution team that manufactured evidence against the Rosenberg's to convict them of a crime that they didn't commit. The evidence (Intercepts that were finally opened years later, probably due to FOI suits) is that they were probably guilty of minor crimes, but due to the fact that evidence of their real crimes was obtained due to those intelligence intercepts, they couldn't present it in court. Top secret info that they didn't want the Soviets to know they could decode. So Cohn persuaded Greenglass to lie on the stand, and based on those lies, the Rosenburgs were convicted of treason and executed. A penalty which, BTW, Cohn later bragged that he was responsible for convincing the judge to impose.
This is the same Cohn who was, BTW, an attorney for Donald Trump, top Mafia figures (including the boss of bosses, Genovese, and John Gotti), and Rupert Murdoch. Oh yes, and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
He often received judicial repremands, and was finally disbarred. The tactics that Cohn used to get his way strongly resembles the tactics Trump uses today.
He died at 59, reportedly due to HIV complications. He was, like J. Edgar Hoover who actually recommended him to Joe McCarthy to be chief council, in the closet.
I for one do not miss him. Or McCarthy. And it seems that we maybe entering another Government crisis brought on by a few leaders more interested in their careers than the people they represent.
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