What if the USS maine is revealed to be sabotoged by the US

One could suggest that an 'inconvenient' information would just be swept under the rug and buried in some Government report - much like the atrocities against Filipinos were done by a Congressional panel. I believe that even Captain Sigsbee of the USS Maine suggested the possibility that the destruction may have been caused by coal dust igniting nearby a magazine, a common event aboard warships in the 19th century.
 
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