All the conservatives of the time were called Evil for condemning Profumo.
I remember. "McCarthyism" it was, mean people saying terrible things about an innocent indiscretion.
And like the Venona Papers, now we know...what we already knew.
Amazing how that works.
Something to remember as presidents, ambassadors, secret service agents, and other persons with classified information are repeatedly caught engaging in reckless affairs (prime for espionage or at least blackmail).
Mr. Clinton was deploying troops over the phone one time he was receiving a blow job from Monica Lewinsky. Did she have appropriate security clearance?
“It’s just sex” doesn’t wash.
There is currently a sex scandal brewing in Belgium over the US Ambassador there soliciting (male?) prostitutes in parks.
Read through the revisionist history reviews of Scandal on IMDB and you’ll find a lot of “much ado about nothing” claptrap and “freethinkers” being persecuted. Stephen Ward was a spy who pimped her out to older men and then sought classified information.
He wasn’t a “freethinker” if he was engaged in espionage for the USSR.
At least he saved the UK a bullet.