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.
In a signed affidavit released at a Capitol Hill news conference,
retired Capt. Ward Boston said Johnson and McNamara told those heading
the Navy's inquiry to "conclude that the attack was a case of 'mistaken
identity' despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary."
It was "one of the classic all-American cover-ups," said retired
Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who
spent a year investigating the attack as part of an independent panel
he formed with other former military officials. The panel also included
a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Akins.
Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty
survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman
Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior
Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately,
so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag
and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base,
where he was arrested.
Later, a dual-citizen Israeli major told survivors that he was in an
Israeli war room where he heard that pilot's radio report. The
attacking pilots and everyone in the Israeli war room knew that they
were attacking an American ship, the major said. He recanted the
statement only after he received threatening phone calls from Israel.
The pilot's protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S.
Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has
confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland
Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by
authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any
interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery.
[Washington Report]
"Then,
inexplicably,
at
2
p.m., unmarked Israeli aircraft began
attacking the ship." [Ledger Enquirer]
Israel
attacked
the
USS
Liberty using UNMARKED AIRCRAFT. This is the
single fact which proves Israel knew exactly who they were attacking.
Israel's story is that they thought USS Liberty was an Egyptian ship
and therefore a legitimate target of war. Were that true, there would
be no reason to attack a supposedly Egyptian ship with unmarked
aircraft. The only possible reason to use unmarked aircraft to attack
the ship is that Israel knew it was an American ship and intended to
sink it, then to blame the attack on Egypt.
Moorer,
who
as
top
legal council to the official investigation is in a
position to know, agrees that Israel intended to sink the USS Liberty
and blame Egypt for it, thus dragging the United States into a war on
Israel's behalf. This seems to be a common trick of Israel. Starting
with the Lavon affair, through the USS Liberty, to the fake radio
transmitter that tricked Reagan into attacking Libya, to potentially
9-11 itself, Israel's game is to frame Arabs and set them up as targets
for the United States.
The
official
US
investigation
is discredited. And with it, every claim
of innocence for Israel that relied on the official investigation as a
source.
The
real
question
facing
the American people is why the US Government
seems more concerned with protecting Israel after they are caught
playing these dirty tricks, rather than doing something to convince
Israel not to kill any more Americans.
"Evidence
linking
these
Israelis
to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell
you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified
information." -- US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report
on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
