[jaugust]

McCarthy's peers happen to be POLITICIANS. It seems you lend more credibility to these POLITICIANS than they deserve. They censured McCarthy because, politically, they HAD to.

And has been recently discovered, McCarthy turned out to be right afterall as more and more documents from the former Soviet KGB are being uncovered showing Communist activities taking place in the US post WWII in some of the highest positions in government.

And McCarthy did not INITIATE any of this. ALL of the initial investigations of possible CP activity was done by HUAC.

[Semper]

They censured McCarthy because, politically, they HAD to.

How do you reach that conclusion? That particular Senate action had only been taken 3 times in history - not a normal political occurance. What made it a requirement?

See my post #149.