USS Liberty: Accident or Cover-up?

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******USS Liberty Disobeys Orders Not to Get Too Close*****
"On the night of June 7 Washington time, early morning on June 8, 0110Z or 3:10 AM local time, the Pentagon issued an order to Sixth Fleet headquarters to tell the Liberty to come no closer than 100 nautical miles (185 km) to Israel, Syria, or the Sinai coast (Oren, p. 263). [8]"

Summary:
The USS Liberty failed to obey orders and leave the area. The USA told Israel that it had no ships in the area. Israeli could well have assumed this was a hostile ship. Adm John McCain (the senator's father) found the attack was an accident.

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I think the captain was decorated with CMH or some bigtime medal, so I don't think this was true.