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		artificial on July 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Politically-correct witch-hunt is killing free spe... I agree America has wrestled problems in the past and overcame them. Wasn’t McCarthy validated after the fall of the Soviets? There were 100s of agents within the Federal government.

jjeaff on July 3, 2020 [–]

Did anyone ever deny that there were likely Russian spies all over? I don't think that justifies the ridiculousness of McCarthyism. I mean, what was their error rate?

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