Tell us what you think. The attorney general also faces new Republican scrutiny into Justice Department investigations of campaign fund raising and alleged Chinese spying - topics that, like the siege of the Branch Davidians, exposed disputes between FBI investigators and department prosecutors. One Senate committee, for example, is investigating an FBI agent's claim that a notebook on her investigation of Democratic fund-raiser Charlie Trie came back from the Justice Department with 27 key pages missing. Senate Republicans have also created a special task force to investigate the department's overall performances on fund raising and China. And I always welcome the opportunity to talk with them and to answer questions in a thoughtful way.
Democrats say the investigations are motivated more by old-fashioned politics than new evidence.
They accuse the Republican congressional majority of reviving old investigations because they lack a political agenda. They're singing all their old hits. But I think the audiences are getting smaller. Republicans have found Ms. Reno to be a frustrating political target, and few, if any, expect to force her resignation now. But GOP members made clear their new investigations will center on a Justice Department they consider inept and politicized.