Hillary and Obama Out-McCarthied McCarthy | The American Spectator

Joseph McCarthy’s name lives in infamy — and rightly so. The Wisconsin senator’s reckless tactics, blacklisting, and guilt-by-association smears weaponized government power to hound political enemies, leaving a stain on American history. But here’s the inconvenient truth rarely whispered in elite circles: McCarthy’s core alarm — that Russia had recruited Americans as spies and placed them deep into high levels of the U.S. government — was spot on.
Decades later, the Venona Files, the once-secret Soviet cables revealed to the world after the Iron Curtain fell, exposed and named dozens of American federal officials covertly aiding Moscow. McCarthy’s methods were a disgrace, but his instincts about espionage were on point. Yet media and academia still discount his rightful concerns by caricaturing him as a boogeyman and refuse to revise the narrative even as declassified facts demand it. (RELATED: Whittaker Chambers’ Witness, 70 Years Later)
Fast-forward to today, and we’re witnessing a far more insidious echo with the same Red Scare tinge: the Trump-Russia “collusion” hoax.
Their playbook chillingly mirrored McCarthy’s: Inflame fears of foreign infiltration, sic federal investigators on opponents, and let the media amplify the hysteria.
In 2016, as Donald Trump’s campaign surged, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — backed by their intelligence community allies and a fawning press — unleashed vague whispers of Russian ties to torpedo their rival. Their playbook chillingly mirrored McCarthy’s: Inflame fears of foreign infiltration, sic federal investigators on opponents, and let the media amplify the hysteria. The key difference? The disinfecting effect of sunshine shows that McCarthy’s allegations had a factual basis and that Clinton and Obama had a manufactured fairy tale. (RELATED: The Historic Roots of Russiagate)
The proof is now undeniable, courtesy of freshly unclassified documents released by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Congress in the las…