Ah, but the Rosenbergs were INNOCENT! Despite what James Weinstein (who met Julius once)said back at the time the Radosh-Milton book was released at the NY Town Hall debate, that any member of the CPUSA asked to undertake, "special tasks, " for the Comintern involving passing classified material would have considered it their proletarian internationalist duty. Such silly and stupid Old Left dissembling still lives as we see on this thread. My late friend, Illinois CP leader Bill Sennett, who fought in Spain, had no problem admitting the Rosenbergs were "guilty." Whatever happened to, "We communists disdain to conceal our aims!"
Aryeh Neier, "humanitarian interventionist, " a Shactmanite in the 50's, school for budding State Dept. Socialists (was a comrade of Gabriel Kolko there in the ISL), now running the Open Society Institute w/ the Soros quadrillions, worked in the Skokie ACLU case defending the Nazis right to march through Skokie.
Lawyer for Stalinoid Lillian Hellman was anti-Stalinist left-liberal, Joseph Rauh.
Another case of naivity about clients and their political significance, William Kunstler doing a, "Black Rage," defence of the Long Island train shooter who was just a schizophrenic with a gun.
Michael Pugliese