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...FEB. 1. The 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...
...FEB. 2. Altman went to the White House, where he intended to present his / recusal at the conclusion of a meeting designed to bring Clinton aides up to speed on procedural aspects of the Madison investigation. But White House counsel Nussbaum urged Altman to stay. Nussbaum worried aloud that Kulka was a smart, tough lawyer. At the hearings last week, Hanson recalled Nussbaum saying that Altman, if he did not recuse, could impose "discipline on the process and lead to a fairer result." After the meeting, Nussbaum pulled Hanson aside and asked how Kulka had been hired. (During the hearings...
...FEB. 3. Altman called Margaret Williams, Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff, and asked her to assemble a group of people quickly so he could inform them of his decision. At a meeting in Williams' office, Altman told Nussbaum, Ickes and Eggleston he would not recuse himself. Hanson arrived at the meeting late, after Altman left, and learned then of her boss's decision. Hanson recalled that Ickes asked her how many people were aware that she had advised Altman two days earlier to step aside. When Hanson replied that only three people knew, Hanson said, Ickes pronounced this good...
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...
...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...