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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 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...
...Senate Banking Committee for their partisanship. "You come from a party which while it held the White House was responsible for Watergate and Iran-contra," he said.WHAT NEXT? Expect Altman to resign, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. Others who can be counted "among the walking dead" include Jean Hanson, the Treasury counsel, and hapless diarist Josh Steiner, Treasury Department chief of staff. Also watch for the President's popularity to dip even further. "It seemed as if a lot of officials inside the White House were evasive," says Ratan. "It adds to the reservoir of doubt that...
Testimony in front of the Senate committee investigating the Whitewater affair revealed the most damning evidence to date. Jean Hanson, Treasury Department general counsel, said that her boss, the beleaguered Roger Altman, told her to give the White House information on the Madison Guaranty investigation. Earlier in the day, an official of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) acknowledged that information was given to the Clinton Administration, but that he had no idea the material, regarding the failed Arkansas S&L, would be passed on to the White House. "It was supposed to be confidential . . . and the RTC breached that responsibility...