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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...
Like so much else about the Clinton operation, the February effort to steer the RTC probe was informal, haphazard and sometimes desperate. It appeared to accelerate every time Altman, who oversaw the RTC, tried to remove himself from management of the Madison probe. The key events...
...Clinton damage-control team had one opening advantage: Roger Altman, a longtime friend of the President. As acting CEO of the RTC Altman was nominally independent, but as Deputy Treasury Secretary he was answerable to Clinton. On this day, however, Altman was about to tell White House officials he would recuse himself from any oversight of the Madison investigation. The reason was obvious: staying in place would create a conflict of interest as the RTC investigated a case involving his friend, the President. But stepping aside would mean that responsibility for the investigation would fall entirely to RTC general counsel...
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...
...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...