[wideawake]

So you don’t actually know she was not a security risk, just that she was not named in the Venona Papers.

Is that a road you really want to go down?

Fact: Joseph McCarthy never produced a scintilla of evidence that Esther Less ever did anything wrong.

Fact: Robert E. Lee, who actually did his homework and inspected the State Department files to identify employees who had even a hint of disloyalty, never identified anything improper for Esther Less.

Fact: The Venona files, which demonstrated the value of Lee's painstaking research and corroborated most of his findings 40 years after the fact, contained zero information about Esther Less.

It looks like McCarthy just picked names at random from State Department employment lists to beef up his numbers.

Do you have a shred of evidence that indicates that Esther Less ever did anything wrong?

How do we know that you aren't a security risk?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Did she ever deny the charges?