Nation IN BRIEF / WASHINGTON, D.C. : Subpoena Issued for Waco Records

A House committee subpoenaed records for its investigation of the FBI’s admission that incendiary tear gas canisters were used in the government’s 1993 standoff with the Branch Davidians. The House Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena to the Texas Rangers, who have evidence sifted from the charred remains of the Davidians’ compound. Also subpoenaed were the records of an assistant U.S. attorney in Waco who prosecuted criminal cases against surviving Davidian members. Committee Chairman Dan Burton of Indiana and other congressional Republicans are incensed over the FBI’s about-face last week after years of claims that only nonburning tear gas was used in the final hours of the deadly 51-day siege.