Seeking to gain some historical perspective....
During the 1950's, communists and socialists living amongst us during the cold war was a genuine concern. A young up and coming republican Senator, Joseph McCarthy was his name, proposed fact-finding hearings to determine whom amongst us was an enemy sympathizer (aka a communist). The hearings bore no fruit and resulted in the evenutal censure of Sen.McCarthy. McCarthy was the Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Government Operations Committee of the U.S. Senate.
How did McCarthy's name become associated with the demokrat-run "HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES" ? The first chairman of this committee, Representative Edward J. Hart of New Jersey (a demokrat), ran the inquiries which all seem so abhorrent and which destroyed people's lives and careers.
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