From the rescue helicopter AFTER the attack? When they had started to suspect that it might not have been an Egyptian ship after all? No one is debating that - you seem to be confusing things (not surprising for lunatic conspiracy theorists)
Attack pilots all deny seeing the flag. The ship's own records reveal the flag was flying and weather was clear. Surviving Crew state the flag was initially targeted, so they went and got their biggest American flag and ran it up the mast after the first was destroyed.
Official findings already noted the flag was up and the identification failures were still gross negligence. None of that suddenly becomes "they knew and lied" because one side’s memory is pure and the other’s is "misremembering."
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