[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

[backhoe]

Thanks... also adding:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/622675/posts
Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies,.....Or... Joe McCarthy was more right than he ever knew
PBS Nova ^ | February 5, 2002 | Peter Tyson

[DPB101]

The sealed transcripts have several books in them. Testimony of Korean War POWs, an odd case of goose down feathers purchased without a competitive bid from Communist China, the incredible lawyering up of witnesses (who paid for that?), 400 homosexuals fired from the State Department as security risks (many of whom found better jobs in France), the testimony of Helen B. Balog, a CPUSA contract on McCarthy, a CIA boss musing McCarthy might have to be "taken care of, Ike's refusal to allow the Army to testify on Soviet infiltration at the Ft. Monmouth radar lab and on and on.