[Signalman]

"The appropriate House Committee must take this up ASAP (that said, I'm not sure which Committee has jurisdiction for this traitorous act)!"

Well, they're not around any longer but I would sure like to see them make a comeback: HUAC, and tailgunner Joe!

[katana]

McCarthy was a Senator, but point well taken.

That he had anything to do with the HUAC has been spread far and wide by the left, whose grasp of history is just about non-existent. So don't feel bad. It's a very common mis-impression.