[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It's "Venona". The guilt of the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss was pretty firmly nailed down without the Venona decrypts. Venona just removes any shred of doubt.

Since the guilt of the Rosenbergs (as defined by statute) has been proven beyond any doubt what is left for their defenders? That bigger fish got away? That they were morally and intellectually superior human beings and therefore not bound by the laws of a government established by slave-holding White males? (This is known in law as the Kathleen Soliah defense.)

The Left's Facorite Cute Couple

The Rosenbergs' execution is sometimes counted as a political blunder. These people ignore the rage at those who deliberately betrayed their own country, after 300,000 young men had been killed fighting a similar tyranny,

[Bobarian]

Venona, right. I checked it twice and still typed it wrong, thanks.

[Erasmus]

I guess it’s understandable that their children have never been able to confront the fact that their parents preferred to make orphans of them rather than rat out their Communist co-conspirators.