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mey: No more hearings on Waco
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^^^■^SHINGTON (AP) — House Majority
^ 'leader Dick Armey said yesterday he no
00*k ong‘ r sees a need for fresh hearings on the
^7\ 993 Waco siege, a new indication the GOP’s
M :eal for reinvestigating the fiery end to the
tam off is fizzling.
^■pressing confidence in independent in-
'estigator John Danforth, Armey told re
porters, “I don’t know that we will see any
:om) elling need” for House hearings.
| Aimey’s comments and recent remarks by
liter congressional Republicans are a sharp
^th<i|g e from last month, when party leaders
^Hhuildered that new revelations about thegov-
j^lrnment's use of force against the Branch Da-
required in-depth congressional hear-
; I arid \ttot ne> General lanet R< no’s
B nation.
the House, where Democrats only need
(TO pick up six seats to win control in next
featfs election, some Republicans grew ner-
[ou:! that yet another investigation of the Clin-
dministration might backfire with voters.
!here is more enthusiasm in the Senate for
! investigations of Reno’s agency. But the
is on Waco has been diluted by other com-
its against the Justice Department — such
s botched investigation of Chinese espi-
|ge charges — and muddied by Republican
hting.
[There’s Waco fatigue,” Rep. Mark Souder,
a member of the House panel investi-
Waco, said. He said he prefers postpon-
:svoFHout>ig tarings until spring. “There’s a feeling that
t)confers lolitical risk may be higher than the politi-
in| i/vste' callgain of pursuing this subject at this time.”
^Eovernment Reform Committee Chair Dan
ilionablea::
twists andtii
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His, thougf I
linate these"
visible, and
to generate,
■ton, R Ind., has promised to move aggres-
siyi'ly with hearings. His investigators expect
receive more than a million Waco-related
documents from the Justice and Defense de
partments within a week in response to a sub
poena. Burton did not respond to a request for
comment yesterday.
The revelations sparked the furor include
the FBI’s admission that its agents fired po
tentially flammable tear-gas canisters at the
compound April 19, 1993, which the agency
long denied. The FBI said the canisters,
launched hours before the start of the fire that
consumed the compound, bounced harmless
ly off the roof of a nearby bunker and did not
contribute to that fire. About 80 Davidians
died in the siege.
“I dont know that
we will see any
compelling need for
[House hearings]. 1 ’
- DICK ARMEY
HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER
On Sept. 9, the day after Reno announced
Danforth’s appointment, Armey said he want
ed the House probe to be more sweeping than
the independent prosecutor’s.
“I want to know it all,” he said.
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss.,
agreed congressional investigators should “do
it in the broadest possible way.” He said the
revelations made him doubt the conclusion
the Branch Davidians, and not the FBI, start
ed the fire.
Since then, Senate Republicans have been
feuding among themselves over the investi
gation’s scope and proper venue.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah, wanted his panel to handle it.
Instead, Lott last month announced a task
force led by Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., a Judi
ciary Committee member, that would investi
gate the espionage charges as a first priority.
Waco would be secondary, along with charges
of Democratic campaign fund-raising abuses.
Democrats pre-emptively boycotted the
task force as another in a string of “partisan
witch hunts.”
“You want to take this thing out of the com
mittee structure to really form a major, major
fishing expedition to get this person or get that
person,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told
Specter during a Judiciary Committee meeting
yesterday. Specter denied the charge.
But faced with such opposition. Hatch has
made another pitch to take over the investi
gation.
In an Oct. 5 letter to Specter obtained by
The Associated Press, Hatch said the probe
would have more credibility if it were done by
a Judiciary Committee panel with the De
mocrats’ participation.
The Senate’s momentum also was stalled by a
turf battle between Specter and Danforth, a high
ly respected former GOP senator from Missouri.
In two letters to Hatch and Sen. Patrick
Leahy of Vermont, the committee’s ranking De
mocrat, Danforth complained Specter’s staff
was interviewing witnesses in violation of an
agreement Danforth had struck with the Judi
ciary Committee.
The Sept. 17 letter complained about inter
ference. In the Sept. 21 letter, also obtained by
the Associated Press, Danforth said he had in
structed the Texas Rangers “not to consent to
interviews or searches of evidence by Judiciary
Committee staff.”
keeping secrets
^ mnel establishes National Nuclear Security Administration
much-neec
film fail,
viewer thisl tUBBOCK (AP) — Rep. Mac Thornberry, the
effort neec Bvly-appointed chief of a congressional panel
ycomplic establishing the National Nuclear Security Ad-
lischance Bnistration (NNSA), vows that the barn door on
.Ford will ■dear secrets “is about to be slammed shut.’’
mill the mBlhornberry, R-Clarendon, whose district is
loperform home to the Pantex weapons disassembly
fe.C-) plant, said this week he will make sure the De-
■rtment of Energy operates more like a mili-
-WlattMoBry organization than the “dysfunctional
Washington bureaucracy” it has become.
■‘Wth the NNSA, we are going to make
lure/hat the nation’s nuclear weapons facil-
Hfeare run with a clear, military-like chain
i|command,” he said. “There will be clear
i(T !*ountability from now on. As chairman,
t|tis one of the most important things I will
pure takes place.”
A bill creating the NNSA, a semiau-
tonomous agency charged with regulating se
curity at nuclear plants, was signed into law
this week. Previously, all security issues were
handled by the DOE. Thornberry’s panel will
choose the agency’s leader.
House Armed Services Committee Chair
Floyd Spence appointed Thornberry this
week to the oversight panel.
“[His] expertise and bipartisan workman
like approach to this issue over the past sev
eral years makes him the perfect candidate to
chair the panel,” Spence said.
The reorganization plan grew from months
of controversy about lax security at the Ener
gy Department and the alleged theft by Chi
na of nuclear warhead secrets from U.S labs
over the past 20 years.
lie,
Ivis’ former Fort Hood home
its electronic auction block
KILLEEN (AP) — Elvis once slept here,
ind so can the highest bidder.
I Elvis Presley’s home while a soldier at
port Hood is for sale again on the Internet
auction site eBay.
| One prospective buyer already has
m,itched the minimum bid of $200,000,
home’s owner M.J. Craig, said. The auction
will close tomorrow evening.
I Craig said two previous auctions closed
ith high bids of $126,100 and $75,000 — not
'enough to part with the one-story, three-bed-
|oom brick home she has lived in since 1987.
Craig, who owns a realty firm in Killeen,
laid when she started thinking about mov
ing from the 2,308-square-foot home, her
aughter convinced her to try the Internet
uction instead of the open market.
[ didn’t think it would work, but I decid
’d to try,” Craig told the Waco THbune-Her-
Id. “People come by all the time asking to
see the house, driving by or stopping by to
take pictures of the house where Elvis lived.”
Presley was stationed at Fort Hood for
basic training when he was 23. He lived in
the home for 25 weeks, Deborah Garrell, .
Craig’s daughter, said.
Garrell said Presley’s parents also lived
there for a time, until his mother became ill
with hepatitis and had to return to Memphis
to be hospitalized.
Craig said the market value of the home,
minus the collector’s attraction to it, is be
tween $130,000 and $150,000. It was built
in 1952.
Craig said she is just waiting to see if the
deal actually goes through.
“I never get excited about a real-estate
deal until it’s completed because so many
things can happen to stop a real-estate
transaction,” she said. “I’ll be excited when
we sit down to do the paperwork.”
Appeals court rules
prayer protected
at football games
SANTA FE (AP) — A Santa Fe High School
student received a federal judge’s protection
yesterday that will allow her to lead public
prayers for the remainder of her school’s home
football games.
Last month, Marian Lynn Ward, 17, drew na
tional attention when she prayed before her
school’s season opener despite a 5th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals ruling banning the practice. The
appeals court ruled in February that sporting
events were not serious enough to warrant orga
nized prayer.
Hours before the Sept. 3 game, U.S. District
Judge Sim Lake of Houston issued a temporary re
straining order barring the school district southeast
of Houston from punishing Ward if she prayed.
Lake ruled the district’s guidelines for pre
game messages “clearly prefer atheism over any
religious faith.”
Ward’s attorney, Kelly Coughlan, said the
school’s policy violates students’ constitutional
right to freedom of speech.
Lake yesterday affirmed his previous ruling,
granting a preliminary injunction covering the
rest of the season, including the Indians’ home
coming game today.
Coughlan said he will seek a permanent in
junction and expects Lake to schedule a trial.
Ward finished second in a student vote to de
termine who would deliver a message before
each home game. She assumed the duty after the
winner bowed out.
The Galveston County Daily News reported
Wednesday that Santa Fe police will beef up se
curity for today’s game in anticipation of a protest
by activists who believe the student-led prayers
violate their own constitutional rights.
“We’ve got to show, at least, that there are peo
ple in the community who respect the First
Amendment and don’t want interference from
the religious right,” protest organizer Will
Ellsworth said.
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