Can we now agree that the Rosenberg's were guilty?

It's kind of funny. We are supposed to recoil in horror from the conspiracy theorists who think Pres. Obama is a Muslim or that he was born in Kenya. Yet, for sixty years, leading lights in journalism and the academy spun ever more convoluted and inane theories to justify, explain, and defend traitors like the Rosenbergs and Alger Hiss. Yet, year after year, the evidence of their guilt grows stronger.

Should we demand that Victor Navasky, Athan Theorharis, The Nation, et al. publicly repudiate their former positions? If they do not, should all thinking people publicly denounce them and their wacky conspiracy theories and their attempts to defend the indefensible?

The Sobell Confession

[Morton] Sobell’s recent second confession finally clears up some of the few remaining points of contention about the Rosenberg case—what exactly Sobell contributed, whether he and his comrades gave the Soviets valuable information, and whether it is appropriate to dismiss their actions as youthful indiscretions in aid of a wartime ally. By confirming that he was one of the group who photographed material filched by Perl, Sobell demolished the lie that the Rosenberg ring stole only inconsequential data and engaged in mere “industrial espionage.” He also revealed that, while there is no evidence he engaged in atomic espionage—with which he is associated in the public mind because of his coconspirators—he was guilty of giving the Soviet Union secret data that advanced the capabilities of the Soviet military machine. He has thus put the last nail in the coffin of the arguments of the Rosenbergs’ apologists, who continue to insist that the couple were framed and executed by the U.S. government for their political ideas.

The New York Times ran the story on page A19. I guess this revelation just did not fit the narrative. Ahh, for the glory days when the "news" on the commie spy beat was all about FBI misdeeds and new scholarly tomes proving the innocence of poor premature anti-fascists.