Only the Israelis said [the USS Liberty incident] was a mistake and it was never investigated.

It’s incredible (and untrue) that such a significant event was “never investigated”.

Of course it was investigated, repeatedly, from the US Naval Court of Inquiry (under Admiral John McCain, the current presidential candidate’s father), all the way up to hearings in the US Congress.

This took place during the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict (the “Six-Day War”), after Egypt had warned neutral nations to leave the war zone. The US Navy had signaled its ships to do so, but the signal was misrouted and never reached Liberty. Then when Israel asked the US to confirm that this was truly a US ship (and not an Egyptian warship under a false flag), the US assured Israel this was not a US ship, as all US ships were 350 miles away. That’s how Liberty got misidentified as an Egyptian vessel, which is why it was attacked.

USS Liberty incident (Wikipedia).

NSA archive on the USS Liberty incident, including documents declassified 08 Jun 2007, the 40th anniversary of the attack.

As the latter documents were not meant for the public but for internal governmental use only, perhaps they will be spared the usual conspiracy-theorist accusations of “coverup” and “propaganda”… but wait, no, that would be the logical thing to do.

Only the Israelis said [the USS Liberty incident] was a mistake and it was never investigated.

It’s incredible (and untrue) that such a significant event was “never investigated”.

Of course it was investigated, repeatedly, from the US Naval Court of Inquiry (under Admiral John McCain, the current presidential candidate’s father), all the way up to hearings in the US Congress.

This took place during the 1967 Arab-Israeli conflict (the “Six-Day War”), after Egypt had warned neutral nations to leave the war zone. The US Navy had signaled its ships to do so, but the signal was misrouted and never reached Liberty. Then when Israel asked the US to confirm that this was truly a US ship (and not an Egyptian warship under a false flag), the US assured Israel this was not a US ship, as all US ships were 350 miles away. That’s how Liberty got misidentified as an Egyptian vessel, which is why it was attacked.

USS Liberty incident (Wikipedia).

NSA archive on the USS Liberty incident, including documents declassified 08 Jun 2007, the 40th anniversary of the attack.

As the latter documents were not meant for the public but for internal governmental use only, perhaps they will be spared the usual conspiracy-theorist accusations of “coverup” and “propaganda”… but wait, no, that would be the logical thing to do.