US skewed evidence of 1964 Tonkin attack-document

Reuters ^ | 02 Dec 2005

[ncountylee]

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence officials in 1964 skewed evidence of an attack on two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin to support claims of communist aggression that led to a massive escalation of the Vietnam War, according to a newly declassified government document.

An article by a National Security Agency historian, released by the NSA this week along with intelligence reports and other related documents, said officials at the spy agency withheld nearly 90 percent of intelligence on the Aug. 4, 1964, incident to back allegations of a North Vietnamese attack.

"It is not simply that there is a different story as to what happened. It is that no attack happened that night," NSA historian Robert Hanyok wrote.

Hanyok's article, which appeared in a classified NSA publication in 2001, was based on a review of newly discovered signals intelligence documents from 41 years ago.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident gave President Lyndon Johnson carte blanche for a huge U.S. military buildup in Southeast Asia that led to the deaths of more than 58,000 U.S. soldiers and over 2 million Vietnamese civilians.

[ncountylee]

No shock here.

[Gefreiter]

Old news alert...

[elc]

Didn't we know this 30 years ago?

[ClearCase_guy]

How much did Halliburton pocket from THAT scam??

[NormsRevenge]

according to a newly declassified government document.

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have they dusted it for Sandy Burglar's fingerprints yet ;-?

[tobyhill]

I guess Japan never bombed Pearl Harbor either?

[Erik Latranyi]

This is a transparent attempt to link VietNam to Iraq, once again.

You see, VietNam was started on faked intelligence and so was Iraq!

[Hayzo]

This is a case of Reuters trying to say 'the US did it before, they can fabricate again' i.e. Iraq.

Somebody needs to kick these A$$ Clowns in the teeth.

[conservative in nyc]

This is what the Democrats and moonbats claim the article is really about. From the article:

The New York Times reported Friday that some intelligence officials believe the NSA delayed the release of the Hanyok article to avoid comparisons between skewed Vietnam intelligence and flawed prewar intelligence on Iraq.

[mainepatsfan]

In other news it turns out that the US planted false intelligence with the German government in 1944 about the actual location of the D-Day landings.

[Txsleuth]

And the reason this is put out now???

[TheRobb7]

I know this is not related but, I need some help here:
ALL RIGHT, THAT TEARS IT!!!!

The moonbats just went too far.

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If you got to this website: http://mojowire.blogspot.com/

you will find them comparing the Tennessee Baptist Youth Convention to a gathering of Nazis!!!!

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Post a comment to the Wednesday Nov. 30th post.

Don't flame, but show them how good Christian Freepers handle these things!!!!

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[absolootezer0]

anything to be re-elected huh?

[Sonny M]

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

This is the biggest news since we found out Hitler was planning on invading Poland.

[tiredoflaundry]

ping

[Beckwith]

Reuters is among the 10% that didn't get the news 30 years ago.

Reuters' reports from Iraq contain the same insight.

[inquest]

Can't be true. The administration was Democrat at the time. Everybody knows that Democrats don't lie to get us into wars. Only Republicans do that.

[Wolfie]

Bah. This sort of thing isn't going to be a big deal to anyone except the 58,000 dead U.S. troops and their loved ones.

[Sonny M]

I should have added a sarcasm tag, my bad.