Rep. Dan Burton, chairman of the House Government Affairs Committee, said on Fox News Sunday he will look into the actions of Justice Department civil lawyers to see if evidence concerning the pyrotechnic rounds was withheld from Congress. Mr. Burton sent a letter to the Justice Department on Friday saying he wanted to schedule interviews by his staff with three of the department's tort branch attorneys involved in defending the government's handling of the siege in a lawsuit filed by survivors and relatives of the Branch Davidians. House staffers said Friday that the Justice Department omitted a page of a report with reference to the military gas rounds submitted to Congress in 1995. The full report was given to attorneys for the Branch Davidians in 1993, but they said they were unaware of its import at the time. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., on CBS' Face the Nation , said again that Ms. Reno should resign.
Somebody has to answer.
He said Mr. Danforth should decide what happened with the page left off the FBI report sent to Congress. If somebody did that on purpose, then appropriate action ought to be taken. Mr. Danforth refused to comment on calls from some members of Congress for Ms. Reno's resignation. Mr. Danforth has talked extensively with the news media since his appointment Thursday by Ms. Reno to head an independent investigation of the Waco siege, but he has said Sunday's interviews would be his last until after the investigation is complete. He said he would alert the media if his investigation is stalled by a lack of cooperation.