Cold War liberals did not just claim Soviet domination of Eastern Europe was wrong or that Hiss/Julius Rosenberg were guilty. They also claimed there was an international communist movement threat to take over the world & domestic spying was major problem in 1950s. Both wrong
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Replying to @HeerJeet
We can argue over the definition of "major," but the fact that Klaus Fuchs, the Rosenbergs, Harry Dexter White, the Silvermaster ring, and Hiss were all funneling information (and, in White's case, printing plates) to the USSR was undeniably a problem.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki
All the major spy rings were broken by Verona. By the time of Truman's loyalty oaths and McCarthyism all you had was security theatre (not unlike post-9/11) for an overwhelmingly phantom threat.
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Replying to @mattyglesias @HeerJeet and
he's talking about the Very Clever Boys such as yourself that decided there must be some merit to the lab leak theory because Mike Pompeo planted a dubious WSJ story about it
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Replying to @pleizar @mattyglesias and
I feel like this letter, and Biden's comments about the IC, had a lot more impact in getting people to question the idea that zoonosis has been proven than whatever WSJ story you're talking abouthttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1 …
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @pleizar and
No one says that zoonosis has been proven
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Replying to @CentristMadness @pleizar and
Do we really have to go back over all the "No, Covid Did Not Escape From a Lab," "No, the Coronavirus Wasn't Made In a Lab" stories from last year? Because there were a lot of them.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @CentristMadness and
"Made in a lab" is wildly improbable, isn't it?
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