"So what are you saying, that the NSA is under the control of Israel? Get real! Are you going to reject the actual recordings because the NSA wrote a summary pieced from various sources?"
Maybe you need reminded that just because something is recorded doesn`t mean we throw our scepticism out of the window.
These recordings don`t prove it was an accident, if anything they support the case that it was an act of Israeli aggresion, and that position is supported by most of the those Americans directly involved in the attack.
The context in which this attack happened goes a long way to explaining WHY it happened and to conclude it was an accident becasue of these recordings seems to be based on the assumption that Israel is honest in it`s dealings with the world and most people know what a crock that idea is.
From Sunspot.net:
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"But James Bamford, a Navy veteran and author of two respected books on the NSA, says the tapes actually support the case he presented in his 2001 book Body of Secrets that the attack was deliberate.
The Israeli ground controller who called the ship "Arab" and "Egyptian" may be just repeating a bogus cover story, Bamford says. At one point, he notes, the controller directs the helicopter crews to check whether the survivors speak Arabic or English.
"If they knew it was an Egyptian ship, why did they think the crew might speak English?" Bamford asks.
In addition, the recordings show that one of the helicopter pilots spotted an American flag and read the ship's identification number. If the helicopter pilot saw those identifiers, Bamford asks, why didn't the fighter pilots and torpedo boat crews?
"All this backs up what the [Liberty] crew has said and disproves the lies the Israelis have told," Bamford says.
For Liberty veterans, most of whom have long been convinced that the attack was no mistake, the new tapes seem not to be changing minds.
"It's all hogwash," says Phillip F. Tourney, who was a 20-year-old sailor aboard the Liberty and now is president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association.
During the attack, he suffered burns and shrapnel wounds that left him disabled. Despite his injuries, he worked feverishly that day to patch holes in the ship and even assisted with surgery performed atop a desk, he says.
Tourney says the tapes may show merely that Israel knew that U.S. intelligence was listening; the helicopter communications were picked up by an NSA eavesdropping plane overhead. He believes the Israelis simply made sure that their radio communications supported their cover story.
"I lost a lot of friends on that ship," Tourney says, including a buddy he had just sent to check why a shipboard phone wasn't working. "This is just going to increase the survivors' determination to get our story out."
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Of course, for some the Israeli Zionazis are the chosen people and are beyond reproach; for others they are masters of manipulation, lying and special pleading...occupying other peoples land and oppressing the people there, right infront of the rest of the world tends to hone such skills.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.nsa16jul16,0,2595145.story?coll=bal-nation-storyutil
