McCarthy

If you had done even the slightest bit of reading on what Tailgunner Joe actually did you wouldn't be asking this question.

>>2999496
nah fuck that alcoholic boor.

>>2999496
Yes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project

>>2999496

yes. only hollywood still bitches at him because he blew them the fuck out

>>2999506
>>2999892
If you idiots had actually bothered to read about a topic before opining you'd realize McCarthy's antics thwarted legitimate ongoing investigations and muddied the waters with baseless accusations more than anything else. He wasn't a misunderstood hero fighting the good fight, he was a drunken oaf that shamelessly resorted to fearmongering and poising wells for his own political gain.

>>2999506
>ruining innocent people's careers is fine if your motives are good

He was an agent for the Reds, working to discredit anti-communist politics and interfere with US investigations into their spy networks.

>>2999496
Depends on what you mean by exonerate, its true they found very serious communist spies later on however none of them were part of Mcarthy's secret list of spies which he refused to fully reveal.

All he really managed to do was smash some hollywood and academic figures who were heavily sympathetic to socialism whilst the real culptits ran amok