The truth is Sen. Joseph McCarthy never publicly identified one single person as a security risk who didn’t prove to be an actual security risk. The truth is Joe McCarthy never pursued Communist-leaning screenwriters in Hollyweird. That was left to the House Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC). Sen. McCarthy had much bigger fish to fry. The truth is that during the 1930s and 1940s our government was indeed infiltrated by Communists, comsymps, and fellow travelers who did pass along sensitive information to the Soviets. Sen. McCarthy was most concerned about spies in the highest levels of government particulary the State Department and the Defense Department. The Whittaker Chambers/Alger Hiss case was no witch hunt. It was one man’s word against another man’s word. One man was convicted of perjury and did time in the federal penitentiary. The other man was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. As far as the Rosenbergs go, even their sons now concede that Julius Rosenberg headed a major Communist spy ring that passed atomic secrets to the Soviets. And of course, we now know that Harry Dexter White, a high ranking official in the Treasury Department was a Communist agent as well. So who were the real villians of this period? Richard Nixon, Whittaker Chambers, Joe McCarthy. Hardly. These men tried to shed light on the serious problem of Communist infiltration into our government. It was Hiss, White, the Rosenbergs, the Ware Spy Ring operating out of Washington D.C. who were the real villains of this period. Unfortunately the liberal/left has re-wriiten and twisted history and created their myths about about witch hunts. What a bunch of crap. The problem is most people believe it.
The truth is there never was a HUAC. It was called the House Committee on Un-American Activities and it was established in the 1930s.