sir? those famous lines ordered by the lawyer, joseph wells, on june 9th, 1954, effectively marked the end of mccarthy-ism, and the investigations that wisconsin senator joseph mccarthy was conducting as chair of the senate permit cup subcommittee on investigations, created initially to investigate government fraud and waste, but he quickly turned into a political pet project to investigate what mccarthy claimed was communist infiltration at all levels of the government. the origins of the mccarthy investigation could be traced back to the post world war i overmine committee, a subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee, and to the house special committee to investigate communist activities in the united states, aka, the fish committee, formed and chaired by new york representative hamilton fish. the fish committee walked into the famous house on american activities committee, formed in 1938, and chaired by texas representative merchandise. much like mccarthy, 12 years
investigate kamala communism a post not secrets in america, up into reality, it conducted investigations based mainly on conspiracy and paranoia, including communism in hollywood and recommended the internment of japanese americans in world war ii. flash forward to december 12th, 2016, in the final day of the house select committee on benghazi, led by the south carolina representative, trey galaxy. the end of a seemingly endless investigation undertaken by republicans, which began at least on the surface, as an investigation into the 2012 terror attacks in libya that killed the u.s. ambassador, chris stevens. which immediately turned into a political sideshow meant to inflict political damage on the venn secretary of state, hillary clinton. as a reminder, you don t need to take my word on that. everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? but we put together a benghazi special committee, a select committee, what her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. we re going t