Israeli newspaper: Yes, we did it on purpose.
MAGA Zio-bot: No, Israel did it by mistake (followed by 10 paragraphs of hasbara bullshit)
Thomas Massie calls for an investigation into the USS Liberty.
Someone tell him that there has been 11 investigations into the USS Liberty.
U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry; June 18, 1967. Presiding officer Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd found no evidence of intentional attack. Verdict: mistaken identity.
CIA Intelligence Memorandum: June 13, 1967. Found no malice; attack a mistake.
JCS Fact-Finding Team (“Russ Report”): June 18, 1967. Examined U.S. military communications handling before and during the attack.
Clark Clifford Report: July 18, 1967. Presidential advisor Clifford found no evidence the ship was known to be American.
State Department / Salans Report: September 1967. Legal and diplomatic assessment by State Department Counsel Carl Salans.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee: 1967. Secretary McNamara testified there was no evidence attackers knew it was a U.S. ship.
House Appropriations Committee: 1967/1971. NSA officials briefed Congress on Liberty’s mission and the communications failures.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: 1979/1981. Found no merit to claims the attack was intentional.
NSA Internal Report (“Gerhard Report”): 1981. Concluded the intercepts “tended to rule out any thesis that the Israeli Navy and Air Force deliberately attacked a ship they knew to be American.”
House Armed Services Committee: 1991/1992. Found no support for claims the attack was intentional.
State Department Conference & Document Release: January 2004. Released all remaining classified CIA and NSA memos. NSA historian David Hatch stated the evidence “strongly suggested” Israel did not know it was attacking a U.S. vessel.