Friday, October 24, 2003
Associated Press October 23: 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."
Boston was senior legal counsel to the Navy's original 1967 review of the attack. He said in the sworn statement that he stayed silent for years because he's a military man . . .
It was "one of the classic all-American cover-ups," said Ret. Adm. Thomas Moorer, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who spent a year investigating the attack . . .
David Lewis of Lemington, Vt., [who] was on the Liberty when it was attacked . . . said a U.S. flag was flying that day and Israel shot it full of holes. . . .
[There are] 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. TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: Russia would have been drawn in to the war as well -- a fulfillment of the plans laid out by Pike and Mazzini 100 years earlier. .....---
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