Too bad present-day Broder is such a shill.

Fox News is much busier trying to find out why poor people are so lame that they let CEOs get hyper-rich.

Why report on criminals in the government? That would just show its viewers what a mess they've helped make of the nation.

--WKW

C& L at's it's best !
Time for the truth about the Liberty

By Ward Boston Jr.
June 8, 2007

Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II. As senior legal counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry, it was my job to help uncover the truth regarding Israel's June 8, 1967, bombing of the Navy intelligence ship Liberty.

On that sunny, clear day 40 years ago, Israel's combined air and naval forces attacked the Liberty for two hours, inflicting 70 percent casualties. Thirty-four American sailors died, and 172 were injured. The Liberty remained afloat only by the crew's heroic efforts.

Israel claimed it was an accident. Yet I know from personal conversations with the late Adm. Isaac C. Kidd – president of the Court of Inquiry – that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity.”

The ensuing cover-up has haunted us for 40 years. What does it imply for our national security, not to mention our ability to honestly broker peace in the Middle East, when we cannot question Israel's actions – even when they kill Americans?

Today, survivors of Israel's cruel attack will gather in Washington, D.C., to honor their dead shipmates as well as the mothers, sisters, widows and children they left behind. They will continue to ask for a fair and impartial congressional inquiry that, for the first time, would allow the survivors themselves to testify publicly.

For decades, I have remained silent. I am a military man, and when orders come in from the secretary of defense and president of the United States, I follow them. However, attempts to rewrite history and concern for my country compel me to share the truth.

Adm. Kidd and I were given only one week to gather evidence for the Navy's official investigation, though we both estimated that a proper Court of Inquiry would take at least six months.

We boarded the crippled ship at sea and interviewed survivors. The evidence was clear. We both believed with certainty that this attack was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew.

I am certain the Israeli pilots and commanders who had ordered the attack knew the ship was American. I saw the bullet-riddled American flag that had been raised by the crew after their first flag had been shot down completely. I heard testimony that made it clear the Israelis intended there be no survivors. Not only did they attack with napalm, gunfire and missiles, Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned at close range three life rafts that had been launched in an attempt to save the most seriously wounded.

I am outraged at the efforts of Israel's apologists to claim this attack was a case of “mistaken identity.”

Adm. Kidd told me that after receiving the president's cover-up orders, he was instructed to sit down with two civilians from either the White House or the Department of Defense and rewrite portions of the court's findings. He said, “Ward, they're not interested in the facts. It's a political matter, and we cannot talk about it.” We were to “put a lid on it” and caution everyone involved never to speak of it again.

I know that the Court of Inquiry transcript that has been released to the public is not the same one that I certified and sent to Washington. I know this because it was necessary, due to the exigencies of time, to hand-correct and initial a substantial number of pages. I have examined the released version of the transcript and did not see any pages that bore my hand corrections and initials. Also, the original did not have any deliberately blank pages, as the released version does. In addition, the testimony of Lt. Lloyd Painter concerning the deliberate machine-gunning of the life rafts by the Israeli torpedo boat crews, which I distinctly recall being given at the Court of Inquiry and including in the original transcript, is now missing.

I join the survivors in their call for an honest inquiry. Why is there no room to question Israel – even when it kills Americans – in the halls of Congress?

Let the survivors testify. Let me testify. Let former intelligence officers testify that they received real-time Hebrew translations of Israeli commanders instructing their pilots to sink “the American ship.”

Surely uncovering the truth about what happened to American servicemen in a bloody attack is more important than protecting Israel. And surely 40 years is long enough to wait.

Boston served as chief counsel to the Navy's Court of Inquiry into the attack on the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Liberty. He also served as a naval aviator in World War II on the carrier Yorktown and as an FBI agent prior to his assignment to the Navy's Judge Advocates General Corps. He is a graduate of the the College of William and Mary School of Law and a resident of Coronado.

Since last November the Dem party has had the collective power to stop this war.

What happened? I want my Vote Back.

Yeah! Let's hear it for scorn and shame...but no prison time.

Puleeeze. Ok. He wants skorn and shame. Let's bring back the pillory and lock Scooter and all the other Bushco criminals into it and let the public pelt them with tomatoes and rotten fruit.

THAT'S scorn and shame.

This wrinkled up old dinosaur needs to go find himself a nice retirement village and end once and for all his polluting of political discourse and mindless meanderings in intellectual dishonesty.

And he can take that dried up old twat, Kate O'Beirne with him.

Slobodan's cell is cold and empty. Time's overdue to warm it up and fill it up with a couple of war criminals.

FAUX uses psychoanalysts?

That puts the anal back into psychoanalysis.

If you're sane, they don't hire you.

Sheehan in 08:)

Liberal AND Proud @ 18:

ysbaddaden @ 16:

Liberal AND Proud @ 11:

This wrinkled up old dinosaur needs to go find himself a nice retirement village and end once and for all his polluting of political discourse and mindless meanderings in intellectual dishonesty.

And he can take that dried up old twat, Kate O'Beirne with him.

I suggest he becomes roomies with Patrick McGoohan.

Let's just say hopefully he has no plastic fork from Long John Silver's.

Are you implying that he'd like to be smothered by big balls?

the village would be far too nice a place for papa bear

IN The Cold @ 20:

The presidanted has been quoted as saying "he will consider redeployment out of Iraq" My guess is that Dem Congress along with some Rep. told him either get them out of Iraq or we will impeach!

The ReThugs and the Dumbocrats are just making it clear that they got an EARFUL over the Fourth of July vacation from their constituencies.

No one is safe if they support this war, and they know it. Only the most "conservative" Republicans from the most ass backward States are appearing on television to tote the White House line.

Everyone else is running for cover. Hillary has the biggest problem, she's in bed with the military industrial complex and Obama is beating her over the head with it.

Coverups, cummutations, pardons, we all know that the government doesn't respect the rule of law if it affects them. It is time for the citizens to take our country back. Faux noise has focused on steroid use by wrestlers for over a week because of one who killed his family. Steroids may be a problem for wrestlers and other athletes but, it doesn't warrant the coverage that Faux gives it. It is a distraction from what really matters. Please citizens, let's take our country, our democracy and our freedoms back. The 4th estate needs to be responsible to us.

http://myfightfordemocracy.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-declaration-of-indep...

Liberal AND Proud @ 22:

ysbaddaden @ 19:

Liberal AND Proud @ 18:

ysbaddaden @ 16:

Let's just say hopefully he has no plastic fork from Long John Silver's.

Are you implying that he'd like to be smothered by big balls?

I should have said...Big WHITE balls.

I thought Harry Reams died.

ysbaddaden says.....I thought Harry Reams died

Harry is alive and well selling real estate in Utah.

George @ 5:

C& L at's it's best !
Time for the truth about the Liberty

By Ward Boston Jr.
June 8, 2007

Forty years ago this week, I was asked to investigate the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II. As senior legal counsel to the Navy Court of Inquiry, it was my job to help uncover the truth regarding Israel's June 8, 1967, bombing of the Navy intelligence ship Liberty.

On that sunny, clear day 40 years ago, Israel's combined air and naval forces attacked the Liberty for two hours, inflicting 70 percent casualties. Thirty-four American sailors died, and 172 were injured. The Liberty remained afloat only by the crew's heroic efforts.

Israel claimed it was an accident. Yet I know from personal conversations with the late Adm. Isaac C. Kidd – president of the Court of Inquiry – that President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered him to conclude that the attack was a case of “mistaken identity.”

The ensuing cover-up has haunted us for 40 years. What does it imply for our national security, not to mention our ability to honestly broker peace in the Middle East, when we cannot question Israel's actions – even when they kill Americans?

Today, survivors of Israel's cruel attack will gather in Washington, D.C., to honor their dead shipmates as well as the mothers, sisters, widows and children they left behind. They will continue to ask for a fair and impartial congressional inquiry that, for the first time, would allow the survivors themselves to testify publicly.

For decades, I have remained silent. I am a military man, and when orders come in from the secretary of defense and president of the United States, I follow them. However, attempts to rewrite history and concern for my country compel me to share the truth.

Adm. Kidd and I were given only one week to gather evidence for the Navy's official investigation, though we both estimated that a proper Court of Inquiry would take at least six months.

We boarded the crippled ship at sea and interviewed survivors. The evidence was clear. We both believed with certainty that this attack was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew.

I am certain the Israeli pilots and commanders who had ordered the attack knew the ship was American. I saw the bullet-riddled American flag that had been raised by the crew after their first flag had been shot down completely. I heard testimony that made it clear the Israelis intended there be no survivors. Not only did they attack with napalm, gunfire and missiles, Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned at close range three life rafts that had been launched in an attempt to save the most seriously wounded.

I am outraged at the efforts of Israel's apologists to claim this attack was a case of “mistaken identity.”

Adm. Kidd told me that after receiving the president's cover-up orders, he was instructed to sit down with two civilians from either the White House or the Department of Defense and rewrite portions of the court's findings. He said, “Ward, they're not interested in the facts. It's a political matter, and we cannot talk about it.” We were to “put a lid on it” and caution everyone involved never to speak of it again.

I know that the Court of Inquiry transcript that has been released to the public is not the same one that I certified and sent to Washington. I know this because it was necessary, due to the exigencies of time, to hand-correct and initial a substantial number of pages. I have examined the released version of the transcript and did not see any pages that bore my hand corrections and initials. Also, the original did not have any deliberately blank pages, as the released version does. In addition, the testimony of Lt. Lloyd Painter concerning the deliberate machine-gunning of the life rafts by the Israeli torpedo boat crews, which I distinctly recall being given at the Court of Inquiry and including in the original transcript, is now missing.

I join the survivors in their call for an honest inquiry. Why is there no room to question Israel – even when it kills Americans – in the halls of Congress?

Let the survivors testify. Let me testify. Let former intelligence officers testify that they received real-time Hebrew translations of Israeli commanders instructing their pilots to sink “the American ship.”

Surely uncovering the truth about what happened to American servicemen in a bloody attack is more important than protecting Israel. And surely 40 years is long enough to wait.

Boston served as chief counsel to the Navy's Court of Inquiry into the attack on the U.S. Navy intelligence ship Liberty. He also served as a naval aviator in World War II on the carrier Yorktown and as an FBI agent prior to his assignment to the Navy's Judge Advocates General Corps. He is a graduate of the the College of William and Mary School of Law and a resident of Coronado.

theirs only one reason the liberty was attacked to draw america closer to war with the mid east , the zionests are vipers and will do any thing to use america to its advantage and getting american boys killed is better then isralie boys dieing for these mossad bastards!

Janet @ 29:

ysbaddaden says.....I thought Harry Reams died

Harry is alive and well selling real estate in Utah.

That's good, at least he's not in the Washington Press Corp.

fox noise does not use analysists, that is obvious, but then they don't care what they say.

"If the Bill O’Reilly’s would turn their attention to these crooked politicians and white collar criminals ..."

No chance of this happening. O'Reilly just said on today's radio show that he doesn't care about the Libby matter (or Plame either). He claimed it makes no difference on our lives. He sounded like a mouthpiece for BushCo (and no doubt they are pleased with what O'Reilly is telling the folks). He's previously declared that the folks don't care about what Libby did and that we don't want to hear about it. (oh really?). And, of course, he did the obligatory right wing rant about what Clinton did with Marc Rich though. What a tool O'Reilly is.