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To: long-gone who wrote (170)	8/31/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: peter a. pedroli	Respond to of 1449

drudgereport.com XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1999 22:04:32 ET XXXXX FEDERAL PROSECUTOR WARNS RENO OF POSSIBLE WACO COVER-UP AT JUSTICE The DALLAS MORNING NEWS is reporting in Tuesday editions that a federal prosecutor in Waco has sent a letter to Janet Reno claiming that "individuals or components within the Department of Justice" may have kept from the Attorney General important documents pertaining to the use of incendiary devices at Waco search.washingtonpost.com House Subpoenas Waco Documents By Michelle Mittelstadt Associated Press Writer Monday, August 30, 1999; 10:42 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee on Monday subpoenaed records for its investigation of the FBI's admission that incendiary tear gas canisters were used in the government's fiery 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidians. The House Government Reform Committee subpoenaed the Texas Rangers, which has tons of evidence sifted from the charred remains of the Davidians' compound. Also subpoenaed was an assistant U.S. attorney in Waco who prosecuted criminal cases against surviving Davidian members. Committee chairman Dan Burton, R-Ind., and other congressional Republicans are incensed over the FBI's about-face last week after years of claims that only non-burning tear gas was used in the final hours of the deadly, 51-day siege. Davidian leader David Koresh and about 80 followers were killed. Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI have said there is no evidence that the incendiary devices lobbed at a concrete bunker 40 yards from the Davidians' compound ignited the fire that later raced through the wooden structure. But Reno has pledged a full investigation. Burton, whose committee will hold hearings in the fall, sent two investigators to Austin last week to review evidence. Monday's subpoenas will be followed by others, including to agencies involved in the siege, said committee spokesman Mark Corallo. washtimes.com Outside probe of Waco siege urged By Joyce Howard Price THE WASHINGTON TIMES en. Charles E. Schumer and Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, both staunch supporters of Attorney General Janet Reno, yesterday called for an independent investigation of the 1993 government assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas. "The FBI had its chance to do this investigation on its own; they clearly muffed it," Mr. Schumer, New York Democrat, said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "The only way to clear the air is to have an outside investigation." Mrs. Jackson-Lee, Texas Democrat and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said she believes it would be useful to have an independent probe "in addition to the internal [Justice Department] review" that Miss Reno called for last week. "We must bring Americans the truth" about what happened in Waco six years ago, Mrs. Jackson-Lee said on CNN's "Late Edition." The two Democrats are part of a growing bipartisan chorus in Congress for an independent probe of the April 19, 1993, siege at the Waco compound, which ended with a fire that killed 86 persons, including 24 children. (continue WACO)