[backhoe]

Good one- I'll use it.

[Stultis]

Then there is the whole issue of the closed (executive) sessions of the Senate "Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations" from 1953, transcripts of which were first released to the public just this year. This committee and it's hearings were McCarthy's primary vehicle, and these transcripts were also an important source for Ann's book (I believe, though I haven't read it yet).

Ann's book is very timely because the left, and their zombies in the media, WITH THE WILLFUL COLLUSION OF THE SENATE HISTORIAN WHO EDITED THE DOCUMENTS, have consistently spun this largely exculpatory material in a (heretofore) largely successful effort to keep the lieberal "McCarthyism" myth alive. Here is an excellent article on this from Human Events which specifically nails Senate historian Donald Ritchie:

M. Stanton Evans: Senate Historian Botched Newly-Released Data on McCarthy