August 1, 1994 - Part 9
August 1, 1994 - Part 9
(22:41:35) Ms. HANSON. I can't ascertain it for you specifically. Throughout this period of time I was working with attorneys, Counsel for the oversight board, staff-career staff in the Treasury who helped write FIRREA, and Counsel for the RTC. I felt-I always felt, and I continued to feel, that I had ample authority for everything that I was doing. The attorneys in the Treasury, as I say, also oversight board and RTC attorneys, knew what I was doing and none of them raised an issue about authority. Those attorneys, to my experience-in my experience, have no problem raising an issue if they think that there is a legal authority problem. Senator MOSELEY-BRAUN. I won t get into whether it was raised or not, because I think, in some of the testimony, it was raised that you did not have the authority to-when you specifically requested to see the criminal referrals, you were refused that information. Ms. HANSON. I never, ever, requested to see the criminal referrals. I've never seen them. I never requested to see them. 187 Senator MOSELEY-BRAUN. I guess my question to you is, assuming that you-you assumed that you had this authority. I want to pick up where Senator Roth left off. Senator Roth raised the question, and I would raise the question of you as well, did it never occur to you, or to anyone in these involvements, that the lines between your role at Treasury and your role at the RTC, that those lines might give rise to an ethical dilemma for you? Ms. HANSON. No, and it didn't happen. It didn't happen. There was no ethical dilemma in doing the work that I did. I was asked by my superior to do it, and I did it. He had plenty of statutory authority to ask it and, also, to grant it. Senator MOSELEY-BRAUN. Then let me ask you one final question, Ms. Hanson, if you had all this to do over again, what parts, if any, would you do differently now? Ms. HANsON. If I could, just to correct-to make sure that my testimony is perfectly clear on the criminal referrals, I did have a conversation with Mr. Roelle, at one point, about the criminal referrals, because it had been suggested that I might read them. I told Mr. Roelle that it had been suggested that I read them, and he said, "Jean, you don't want to do that," and I said, "You're right, I don't want to do that," just so the record is completely clear. I'm sorry, your question, again, is if I had it to do over, what would I do differently? I would make sure that I got a transcript. I don't think I would do anything else different] further questions. Senator MOSELEY-BRAUN. Thank you. No further The CHAIMAN. Senator Bond.