Did U.S. Cover Up USS Liberty Attack- By Israel?

[Psycho Mike]

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EXCERPT:

A former Navy attorney who helped lead the military investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 American servicemen says former President Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary, Robert McNamara, ordered that the inquiry conclude the incident was an accident.

The USS Liberty was an electronic intelligence-gathering ship that was cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast on June 8, 1967. Israeli planes and torpedo boats opened fire on the Liberty at what became known as the outbreak of the Israeli-Egyptian Six-Day War.


In addition to the 34 Americans killed, more than 170 were wounded.

Moorer's panel suggested several possible reasons Israel might have wanted to attack a U.S. ship. Among them: Israel intended to sink the ship and blame Egypt because it might have brought the United States into the 1967 war.

[Lobscouse]

This resurgence of interest in the assault on the USS Liberty is a good thing, coming at a time of war in the middle east. It is as much a part of the whole story, as the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, USS Cole or the 9/11 attack. The whole story being fifty years of Washington's biased Middle East foreign policy. The present administration will have just as much interest in keeping it under wraps as Lyndon Johnson did, so I do not see the survivors of the assault being treated any better by this Commander-in-Chief.

The new revelations were featured in a sixty minute documentary on the subject, a week or ten days ago, on Canada's History Television channel, and I am surprised nobody mentioned it, as it was most interesting.