Word: altmans
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...more than 100 hours of complex testimony about the Whitewater scandal was evidence of a persistent pattern of deception among White House staff members. By last week it was clear that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill felt they had been misled by the Clinton White House. Roger Altman demanded that lawmakers believe his own recollections of meetings, rather than those of seven other officials who contradicted him under oath. Joshua Steiner, the 28- year-old Treasury chief of staff, insisted that his diary was no longer a reliable source of information. Senior policy adviser George Stephanopoulos, whose memory...
Nine Republican Senators say they want Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen to fire three of his staff for lying to Congress during congressional hearings on Whitewater. The targets of their ire: Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, Counsel Jean Hanson and Bentsen's chief of staff, Joshua Steiner...
...White House's defensiveness about its interest in the case leads several Republican Senators to think the White House was interested not only in information but also in some measure of control over the RTC probe. During the Feb. 2 meeting, Nussbaum and other White House officials preferred that Altman not recuse himself from the RTC's Madison-Whitewater case. At the time of the session, Altman was leaning toward relinquishing his formal authority over the case, as he was advised to do by several Treasury colleagues, including Bentsen. But when the meeting got under way, the White House officials...
...While Altman evidently had second thoughts about his cooperation with the White House, he sometimes seemed all too willing. Several Republicans charged last week that during the Feb. 2 meeting Altman went beyond simply explaining how the RTC works; deputy chief of staff Ickes told Senate investigators that Altman had reported at the meeting that the RTC's Madison probe would not be finished by the time the statute of limitations expired on Feb. 28. That was good news to Administration officials, who presumably knew the Clintons' potential civil liability to Madison losses would expire with the deadline. Altman...
...Altman disputes the new account, saying, "No information of any kind was % provided about the status of the investigation." Ickes' lawyer also disputed the G.O.P. Senators' characterization of his own testimony, saying that Ickes had only inferred from Altman that the RTC case was moving slowly. Casting more light on what Altman said in the White House on Feb. 2 will be a prime goal of Senators in this week's hearings. But many of them already believe Altman has been too damaged to continue at Treasury...