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...Altman told Roelle he would ask Jean Hanson, the Treasury Department's chief counsel, to call Roelle for a briefing. On Sept. 27, Roelle briefed Hanson on the case, reminding her that the sensitive information was for Altman's ears only. But Hanson maintains Altman directed her later that day to inform Nussbaum of the development. Hanson says she complied two days later, then wrote a memo dated Sept. 30 in which she reported the contact with Nussbaum and associate White House counsel Clifford Sloan. Altman does not recall telling Hanson to brief Nussbaum and says he doesn't recall...
Secretary Bentsen, who surprisingly was neither interviewed nor deposed by special prosecutor Fiske, now faces additional questions about his role. So Cutler could prepare for the hearings, last weekend Bentsen turned over to him copies of interviews with Altman, Hanson and White House aide George Stephanopoulos that had been conducted by the Treasury's inspector general -- this before the I.G.'s report had been completed. Sherman Funk, a veteran inspector general in Washington, called Bentsen's action "totally inappropriate...
...investigators also cast doubt on the curious contention by White House officials during the House hearings that they were entitled to otherwise confidential information about the Madison probe because they would have to deal with "press inquiries" about it. Roelle indicated in his Senate deposition that he reported to Altman in September not in response to press inquiries but because he had learned from a regional RTC office that the criminal referrals were going forward. Indeed, the first media story about the referral did not break for another month...
...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...