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Its innaccurate to say that McCarthy had no names, he furnished the entire list of alleged communists to Tydings. Can we change that or what?-- 72.191.31.112 ( talk) 00:49, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
well my question is, what counts as a reliable source. I would like to see some context on the point at issue from the source that is cited. The text says "McCarthy had no names, he had a case file that had only numbers no names" and this sentence is backed up by a secondary source. What exactly does that secondary source say? Does it say that McCarthy took his list from the old State Department list, or does it actually say that McCarthy had no names. Because I can easily list a secondary source that claims that McCarthy DID in fact have names.
The sentence at issue has a semi colon. Shouldnt it be broken in half and each half cited?-- 72.191.31.112 ( talk) 03:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
This was a part of it, spoken from Tyding: „We have seen the technique of the ‚Big Lie,' elsewhere employed by the totalitarian dictator with devastating success, utilized here for the first time on a sustained basis in our history…We have seen the character of private citizens and of Government employees virtually destroyed by public condemnation on the basis of gossip, distortion, hearsay, and deliberate untruths…..The spectacle is one we would expect in a totalitarian nation where the rights of the individual are crushed beneath the juggernaut of statism and oppression; it has no place in America where government exists to serve our people, not destroy them.“ -- 178.197.232.25 ( talk) 16:18, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
At one point, the article mentions that "all of them [a subsection of the Lee list] had been cleared by the State Department's review process."
This strikes me as both irrelevant and inaccurate. Who cares if the State Department gave the State Department a clean bill of health? It was the State Department's scandal to cover up.
But more importantly, it is unsourced.
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