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(Issac Goldberg) wrote in message . com...
(Mike Weeks) wrote:

Idiot;

Weeks does what he does best, he resorts to childish
name calling.

What Mike does best is finding the facts and presenting
his conclusions based on the facts; e.g. you are an idiot.

Another poster whose arguments are so weak that
he feels the need to resort to childish name calling.

He acknowledges that Congress has never conducted an
investigation devoted solely to the Liberty affair.

What makes "Congress" more qualified to run an investigation than
the CIA?

Ah, it's the old 'move the goalposts' ploy. When
confronted with the fact Congress did not conduct
a thorough investigation of the Liberty affair,
some people denigrate Congress.

Can Congress get more data?

A Congressional investigation can ask the CIA
to testify on all of the data that has been
collected.

Does Congress have deeper understanding of Israel?

A non sequitur with regard to the question of
whether the attack on the Liberty was intentional
or not.

Does Congress have better exprerts in
navies-at-war issues than the US NAvy?

Congress can request the testimony of the US Navy's
finest experts, who are then obligated to give
truthful answers, or face jail terms.

In other words, why should Congresss investigate the Liberty
incidence after the CIA concluded that the Israeli explanation
is reasonable.

Believe it or not, the CIA is not always right.

Also, the CIA is subject to political pressure which
may cause them to change their correct conclusions to
something else. Kind of like when Vice President
Cheney made his visits to CIA HQ at Langley, and the
CIA then started to find reasons to invade Iraq.

The President can replace anyone at the CIA,
including the director, whenever he wants. But the
President cannot replace members of Congress,
since only the voters choose members of Congress.
Therefore, Congress should investigate because
they do not serve at the pleasure of the President.

(See http://libertyincident.com/cia.htm
@The Central Intelligence Agency completed an Intelligence
@Memorandum titled The Attack on the USS Liberty on 13 Jun
@1967. It was declassified on 31 Aug 1977. On page 4, in
@paragraph 5, the report concludes that the Liberty could
@easily be mistaken for the Egyptian transport El Quesir.)

Common sense refutes this.

The El Quesir was not outfitted with a large
and uniquely identifying antenna dish.

The first target attacked by the Israeli pilots
was Liberty's communications, and the large and
uniquely identifying antenna dish was quickly
put out of action.

If the El Quesir by some miracle had been
converted to an intelligence vessel with a
large and uniquely identifying antenna dish,
it would have been targeted and destroyed on
the first day of the war.

It sounds like there may have been some
political pressure put on the CIA to
produce the results that LBJ wanted.