Fortunately, the plane's crew members weren't killed, and we didn't have to face the kind of crisis their deaths would have triggered. But Bamford's book explains the secret history of times when the rhetoric was more aggressive, when enemies would shoot each other down and when what the world's leaders said in public did not match what they did in private. It's a sobering history, and one we should take pains not to repeat. The assault on the USS Liberty Experts respond to new evidence that the 1967 attack on a U.S. spy ship by Israeli forces was deliberate. Corporate interests are trumping human interests in President Bush's handling of the spy plane crisis.
Experts weigh in.