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...Daniel Altman's column appears on alternate Mondays
...White House: Clinton held a press conference to talk about the massacre of Muslims in a Hebron mosque and the U.S. deportation of a senior Russian diplomat as a retaliatory move in the Aldrich Ames spy case. Nonetheless, Stephanopoulos and Ickes found time to call Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, who was also acting head of the RTC, using the speakerphone in Stephanopoulos' office. They had just learned that Altman had finally decided to disqualify himself from dealing with any matters related to Madison because of previous contacts with the White House staff about the RTC's investigation. The White...
...facing congressional hearings about Whitewater and the near-certainty of further revelations and unable to stop either. Special prosecutor Robert Fiske subpoenaed a 10th Administration official, senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, possibly to ask him what he may have said about Whitewater in phone conversations with Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman. As for congressional hearings, Clinton knows they will become a highly partisan circus. But the prospect nonetheless puts him in a dilemma pithily summarized by his chief Republican congressional tormentor, Iowa Representative Jim Leach: "If ((Democrats)) provide me a hearing, their President is likely to be embarrassed. If they...
Where does Altman stand now? Under a cloud. Too few news reports mention that Altman's meeting was cleared by Treasury's ethics office; too many critics ignore his admission that despite such clearance, the meeting should not have occurred. So, fault Altman for political naivete but, unless new information surfaces, not for venality. A lot about Whitewater smells. Altman doesn...
...Political Interest: Roger Altman on the spot...