If Profs. Haynes and Klehr, as it appears by this book title, are having such a hard time convincing their fellow historians that YES, there really was communist infiltration of sensitive government positions under Roosevelt and Truman and YES, those communists really did conduct treasonous espionage against the US, then you can imagine what a time Ann's going to face (and is facing) in questioning the "forced consensus" about "McCarthyism."
CNN's Eason Jordan admitted to concealing Saddam Hussein's reign of terror.
In like fashion CNN has served as Fidel Castro's Megaphone for a Dictator.
CNN foisted the hoax of the No Gun Ri "massacre" (see also Jenin "massacre") using a "witness" who was not present (remote viewing?).
CNN also hyped the hoax of Operation Tailwind, claiming U.S. forces used nerve gas on defectors.
The power of denial is enormous.
An army engineer who worked with General Motors on new tank designs in the sixties actually believes tests duplicated Lee Harvey Oswald's "marksmanship".
Los Alamos scientists I have spoken with find nothing odd about Wen Ho Lee downloading data on all U.S. warheads at hours when he was sure to be alone, then "misplacing" or "destroying" the tapes he so painstakingly made.
For such behaviors, Michael Savage says liberalism is not a political philosophy but a mental disorder.