{"id":283769,"date":"2016-12-10T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-forgotten-sneak-attack\/"},"modified":"2016-12-10T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T10:36:55","slug":"the-forgotten-sneak-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-forgotten-sneak-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Forgotten Sneak Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Last week, on the 75<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the December 7, 1941 sneak attack on our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai\u2019i, I witnessed endless remembrances and memorial ceremonies.\u00a0 On the History Channel FDR\u2019s \u201ca date that shall live in infamy\u201d speech was played and replayed relentlessly.\u00a0 Documentary footage and interviews with those few living survivors were ubiquitous, and the local paper came weighted with a special insert\u2014including a thick wad of advertising\u2014memorializing the event.<\/p>\n<p>But as the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of June 8, 1967 approaches, another sneak attack on the US military by enemy aircraft and naval vessels goes largely unremembered.\u00a0 On that day the USS <em>Liberty <\/em>was attacked without warning, leaving thirty-four men dead and another one hundred seventy-one injured.\u00a0 Those responsible for this heinous crime have never been held accountable.\u00a0 Survivors of the USS <em>Liberty<\/em> have waged a 50-year war for recognition of their courage and endurance under fire that has been deliberately ignored by US media, US lawmakers and the US military.<\/p>\n<p>A spy ship operated by the NSA, the <em>Liberty<\/em>\u2018s sole purpose on June 8, 1967 was to gather signal intelligence on a conflict later called the Six Day War.\u00a0 She was operating just 15 miles off Sinai, in international waters, but should never have been so close inshore.\u00a0 Her controllers back in the US had determined such a location to be unduly hazardous and that she should steam 100 miles farther out to sea, but their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/09\/the-forgotten-sneak-attack\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, on the 75th anniversary of the December 7, 1941 sneak attack on our naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawai\u2019i, I witnessed endless remembrances and memorial ceremonies.\u00a0 On the History Channel FDR\u2019s \u201ca date that shall live in infamy\u201d speech was played and replayed relentlessly.\u00a0 Documentary footage and interviews with those few living survivors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}