{"id":347,"date":"2007-10-03T12:12:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/great-expose-on-lies-on-the-uss-liberty\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T18:39:50","slug":"great-expose-on-lies-on-the-uss-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/great-expose-on-lies-on-the-uss-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Expose on Lies on the USS Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Chicago Tribune<\/strong> <\/a>yesterday\u00a0printed an expose on the lies regarding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967.\u00a0\u00a0 John Crewdson’s article makes clear that the U.S. government knew that the Israeli\u00a0 planes\u00a0had clearly identified the USS Liberty as an American ship before they began strafing and bombing it.\u00a0\u00a0Three Israeli torpedo boats attacked and almost sank\u00a0off the American ship. Thirty-four Americans were killed and 171 wounded in the Israeli attack. \u00a0But the Johnson administration buried the evidence and pretended that maybe it was just an accident.<\/p>\n

The fate of the USS Liberty<\/em> is a reminder that the US government will not hesitate to betray and abandon its own servicemen.<\/p>\n

Politicians try to lull people to sleep by promising them that truth will out.\u00a0 But it took 40 years before key details on the attack on the Liberty<\/em> surfaced.\u00a0 (The National Security Agency declassified a heap of documents for the 40th anniversary of the attack; they are available here<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

How many decades will it be until we learn of similar official lies regarding Iraq, Iran, and elsewhere in the Middle East?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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