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Why, after 37 years, is so much
information about the attack on the Liberty still classified
by the US and Israeli governments?

Why don't you ask LVA.

Are they in charge of both American and Israeli classification
of secret documents?

The Liberty had two groups of people on board:
1) Navy people who were in charge of moving the ship around
according to commands from the Pentagon.
2) NSA people who were in a mission to listen to...?

The Navy people have a pretty good understanding of what happened
because they know something about naval operations. The Navy's
Court of Inquiry conclusions are good enough for most of them.

Wrong. Name one living Liberty survivor who agrees with the
conclusions of the Court of Inquiry. Cristol handles this by
not interviewing any of the Liberty survivors.

E.g. the skipper gave his detailed testimony in court, (Mike posted
it in Message-ID: ),
and he has not changed his story.

According to Captain Boston, he and Admiral Kidd were
ordered in advance of the inquiry to conclude it was an
accident by President Johnson and Secretary of Defense
McNamara. That is, the Court of Inquiry was a sham which
produced a whitewash. This helps explain the threats
made to the Liberty crew to cooperate with the Inquiry
or face reprisals which could include jail.

The NSA guys are the ones who make the big noise. One explanation is
that they are pretty ignorant about naval issue. Another explanation
is that they believe, rightly or wrongly, that their secret mission
was the reason for the Israeli attack. But none of them has the guts,
in his old age, to just expose the mission and force the US government
to take him to court. Yes, they believe that there was a cover-up but
they don't have the guts to spend time in jail just to force the
US government to show its hand.

The fact is that most, if not all, of the NSA guys on the
Liberty died when the Liberty was struck by the Israeli
torpedo. Kindly explain how you know that they believe there
was a cover-up, when they were killed during the attack. Is
it because, like Weeks, you are omniscient?

This also explains why 'none of them has the guts' to
expose their mission. Their 'guts' were splattered in an
instant after the Israeli torpedo exploded.