The attack began on the fourth day of the war. The Liberty was about 17 miles from the coast. Almost without warning, Israeli fighter jets tore into the ship with rockets, cannons and napalm. Shells smashed portholes, ripped gashes in sealed metal doors

For those too young to remember, the Liberty was collecting intelligence off the Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War in June 1967.

after reading this comprehensive and compelling account, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that Israel's actions were, at a minimum, criminally negligent -- and harder still to understand why no one in Israel was punished.

McCain understood that a "report critical of Israel would trigger diplomatic ramifications and create domestic political trouble for the beleaguered White House, which now wanted to deemphasize the attack." As a consequence, McCain barred his staff from traveling to Israel and allowed only a week to complete the probe, "less time than it took to bury some of the dead."

I heard one theory say Israel didn't want this U.S. ship spying on it's treatment of Egyptian prisoners because hundreds or thousands of these Egyptian POW's were murdered.

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But no matter the reasons why the fact appears clear that Israeli forces deliberately killed U.S. troops and it has been covered-up or downplayed...but not forgotten.