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...removal of papers from the office of White House counsel Vincent Foster after his suicide in July 1993 because the special counsel is still investigating that. Gonzalez has ruled out any questions in his House panel about any aspects of Foster's death. Leach once asserted that a midsummer probe could look into only 5% of all the questions concerning Whitewater; last week he reduced that estimate...
Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, to whom Hanson's memo was addressed, could land in more trouble too. He has admitted that he gave White House officials a "heads up" briefing on the RTC probe in February, but at first did not acknowledge knowing of any earlier meetings. Even before her Sept. 30 memo turned up, however, Hanson reportedly told investigators that Altman not only knew about similar meetings in September and October 1993 but actually ordered them. Those reports have touched off rumors that Altman, once thought likely to succeed Bentsen at Treasury, is considering resigning. Sources close...
...leaks, which is not the sort of thing that resonates loudly outside the Beltway. The hearings themselves, though, if nothing else, should serve as a kind of training camp in which both sides warm up and test themes to use in the eventual main event: the post-Fiske probe into just what happened in Arkansas...
...investigation, White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler told Congress on the first day of hearings into the matter. But he was quick to add that neither the President nor his staff did anything illegal or unethical when administration officials met with the Treasury Department regarding a Whitewater-related savings & loan probe. The GOP response, summed up by Wisconsin Representative Toby Roth: "This thing smells to high heaven." Expect the rhetoric to grow worse, says TIME Washington correspondent Suneel Ratan. In further hearings this week, Republicans will get a crack at officials who allegedly had a hand in the White House/Treasury fiasco...
Releasing the final report of a two-year corruption probe into the New York City police department, a special commission concluded that a "willfully blind" system of accountability in the nation's largest police force had permitted highly organized "crews" of rogue officers to deal drugs, skim money and terrorize residents. Despite pockets of corruption, the commission stressed, most N.Y.P.D. officers were honest...