It was during the year 1953 that McCarthy decided to "go after the military and the communism found therein", and soon tested his power by accusing "Robert Stevens, Secretary of the Army" as involved in communist affairs. Because of this serious accusation of McCarthy, the army began to leak information about him, some of the leaked information explained that McCarthy had abused his power by trying to receive special privileges in the past a televised hearing between McCarthy and the Army that belittled the power of McCarthy's words, McCarthy was deemed a "contumacious, contemptuous and denunciatory" man and soon lost his job as chairman of the "Government Operations Committee" (Heale, 1998) (Latham, 1973) (Schrecker, 1994) (Steinberg,