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Media spin aside, newly released transcripts from Senator Joseph McCarthy's closed committee hearings validate his efforts to expose subversive forces in our government.
It was a dark and shameful period in our nation's history. Law-abiding private citizens, whose only "offense" was to express unpopular political opinions, were publicly demonized and falsely accused of working on behalf of a hostile foreign power. They came under the invasive scrutiny of the federal government, which used self-appointed spies to infiltrate legal political gatherings to collect personal information on those in attendance.
The campaign of suppression culminated in a ...