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Even before the report was issued, Dayan had been under attack by a covey of critics that included disgruntled veterans, Israeli doves and even members of his own Labor Party faction, who questioned his leadership. The commission's apparent whitewash of Dayan stirred fresh and damning attacks on the Defense Minister from within the government, principally from a left-wing Labor faction led by Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. Allon's supporters and the far-left Mapam faction threatened to bring down the government by voting against it if Dayan was not removed. Dayan's own Rafi faction...
...telling point. There were immediate charges that the report was a whitewash and Elazar was being made a scapegoat. The Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot declared that both Premier Meir and Dayan were "full partners in the blunder," and should resign. The most serious threats came from within the ruling Labor Party. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who was upset by the humiliation of his old comrade-in-arms Elazar, told Knesset colleagues that Dayan must go. There were rumors that Allon would back up his demands by threatening to resign himself...
...chief counsel for an investigation of the Federal Communications Commission. Sirica quickly sensed that the committee intended to bury rather than expose a budding scandal. He therefore resigned, declaring, "I don't want it on my conscience that anyone can say John Sirica is a party to a whitewash...
Hanrahan's attempt to whitewash the incident was no more surprising than the violent behavior of the police. Hanrahan tried again and again to convince people that there had been a gun battle in which the Panthers had tried to shoot their way out. Hanrahan had his men act out their story on TV. He gave the sympathetic Chicago Tribune "exclusive information" consisting mostly of lies and ambiguous photographs. (One of the photographs showed "bullet holes" which turned out to be protruding nails.) Crime lab technicians faked lab reports. Other evidence was destroyed or misrepresented...