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We're talking about people in administrative positions, not people being put in internment camps.
by SamReidHughes 12y ago
We're talking about people in administrative positions, not people being put in internment camps.
- dalke 12y agoAll I see in the history is "McCarthy identified several agents actively engaged in espionage. KGB records identify hundreds more that he missed. / McCarthy identified many more people in sensitive positions who were security risks, many with Communist associations." I see nothing which says that "sensitive positions" is or was meant as a term limited to the executive branch or to administrative positions. Wouldn't a non-administrative physicist on the atomic bomb project, like Theodore Hall, count as a "sensitive position"? Since I'm pretty sure that was the view back then. Keeping people in an internment camp rather made it difficult to have an administrative position, so I don't really see the difference. Well, there's a different mechanism, but the same end goal - keep Japanese/Communists out of possible sensitive positions because some people who are Japanese/Communists are the enemy. No?