[Olog-hai]

Note that the NYT is using rather ambiguous language. It would have been the liberals who kept this secret for all this time, after all. Documents are at this link; best to make one’s own judgments.

[bigdaddy45]

Well he led the development, for the U.S., of the most devastating weapon ever devised. If he was playing for the other, he sure was lousy at it.

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[Gay State Conservative]

McCarthy may well have been something less than completely accurate in all his accusations but...he damn well was right to point out that there were many,many reds...and red sympathizers...in numerous government positions,including top positions.

Hell,we even had a Vice President who was a Marxist back then (as well as one or two since then).

[what's up]

Oppenheimer belonged to groups led or infiltrated by Communists; his brother, his wife and his former fiancée were party members.

Well, now...that doesn't lend to any suspicion whatsoever, does it?

[Timber Rattler]

Nervermind the fact that both Oppie’s brother and his lover Jean Tatlock were both card carrying members of the Communist Party, and that he had attended party meetings himself.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

It was halfway through the article before they said anything relevant.

“...his brother, his wife and his former fiancée were (communist) party members.”

There is no reality where a person would be trusted with our nation’s most important secrets with connections like that.

NONE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer#Private_and_political_life

Add to that that his circle of friends, acquaintances, students, charities, etc., who all had connections with the communist party.

Sorry for the man, but the evil of communism tainted everything touched by it.

[Henry Hnyellar]

Given that the Slimes hates the fact that the USA has atomic weapons, why would they be defending Oppenheimer?