Here's an interesting bit of U.S. Maritime history. The U.S. Congress of 1898 never ordered an investigation of the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana, Cuba either. Yet, the sitting U.S. President of the time, William McKinley, a republican, caved to pressures from the democratic party at the time to declare war against Spain, prompting the Spanish-American War. It wouldn't be until 1974 when an investigation was conducted independently by U.S. Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover nearly a century later.
I imagine a little more looking and you'll find other suspicious incidents involving the U.S. Navy.
Here's an interesting bit of U.S. Maritime history. The U.S. Congress of 1898 never ordered an investigation of [the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana, Cuba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Maine_(1889)) either. Yet, the sitting U.S. President of the time, William McKinley, a republican, caved to pressures from the democratic party at the time to declare war against Spain, prompting the Spanish-American War. It wouldn't be until 1974 when an investigation was conducted independently by U.S. Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover nearly a century later.
I imagine a little more looking and you'll find other suspicious incidents involving the U.S. Navy.
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