12/23/25 Phil Tourney on the Barbarity and Relevance of the USS Liberty Attack

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Scott interviews USS Liberty survivor, author and spokesperson Phil Tourney. They talk about what really happened the day of the attack, the infuriating lengths the US government went to ensure nobody would find out about it and the continued effort by figures and groups in the conservative movement to shut down discussion about this heinous chapter of US-Israeli relations. Discussed on the show: What I Saw That Day by Phil Tourney and Mark Glenn BBC’s USS Liberty: Dead in the Water (IMDb) The Day Israel Attacked America | Al Jazeera Sacrificing Liberty Operation Cyanide: How the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War Three by Peter Hounam Pre-Order Phil’s New Book Phillip F. Tourney is a decorated U.S. Navy Veteran, survivor of the 1967 USS Liberty attack, and recipient of the Bronze Star V and Purple Heart. Prior to Liberty, he did two tours on the USS Mauna Kea in waters off Vietnam. For his actions during the Liberty attack, he received a Bronze Star with “V” device plus a Purple Heart. He’s been President (or multiple-term President) of the USS Liberty Veterans Association. Audio cleaned up with the Podsworth app: https://podsworth.com Use code HORTON50 for 50% off your first order at Podsworth.com to clean up your voice recordings, sound like a pro, and also support the Scott Horton Show! For more on Scott’s work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott’s other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott’s books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott’s full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.com You can also support Scott’s work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making this.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly.
0:21.7	When the president visit, that means that it is not only...
0:24.5	We're going to take out seven countries in five years.
0:26.5	They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
0:29.2	Negotiate now.
0:31.4	End this war.
0:33.5	And now, here's your host, Scott Horton.
0:39.2	All right, you guys.
0:41.5	Welcome back to the show again and introducing Phil Turney.
0:47.0	Retired, formerly of the U.S. Navy and, in fact, of the USS Liberty. He is the author of a book called What I Saw That Day,
0:59.8	Israel's June 8th, 1967 Holocaust of U.S. servicemen aboard the USS Liberty and its aftermath.
1:08.7	Welcome to show. How you doing, Phil?
1:12.6	I'm doing well.
1:14.7	Thank you so much, Scott, for the invite.
1:20.8	I'm looking forward to this very important discussion, and the USS Liberty couldn't be brought up at a better time.
1:22.6	Yeah, absolutely right.
1:23.9	Now, it's funny because I have interviewed Ron Kukal, who I believe is now no longer with us,
1:31.0	and Larry Bowen and Joe Meadors before, and I thought I had interviewed you, but no, I just had
1:36.6	dinner with you twice, and we talked about all this stuff when I was out there in San Diego and you
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