August 3, 1994 - Part 5
August 3, 1994 - Part 5
(16:55:45) Mr. KLEIN. I was concerned in two respects, Senator, One, as I said, I had heard that the issue of recusal had been raised, That's all I heard was that he had brought it up and there was nothing in the newspaper accounts referring to recusal in the lengthy descriptions of his testimony. Senator SASSER. Well, my time has expired, but you heard it had not been brought up by, not by Mr. Altman at the Committee Mr. KLEIN. No, I heard it had been brought up at the meeting, but not discussed at the hearing by Mr, Altman, and so I was concerned about the omission, essentially the same point that Mr. Eggleston just made. Senator SASSER. Thank you very much. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Senator Sasser. Senator Gramm. Senator BRYAN. Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. Earlier the point I think he had indicated that he had concerns about two points and I don't think that he fully responded to the question. The CHAIRMAN. He should respond. Mr. KLEIN. The second point I had, later in the day there were press accounts on Friday the 25th about the hearing. Late in the day about 4:00, Cliff Sloan, Associate Counsel, came to my office and asked me if he could talk to me and he said, look, I've read in the paper that Mr. Altman only testified that there was one meeting. He said I was involved in and know about some meetings in late September, early October. Sloan said, I don't know what Mr. Altman's knowledge was. 1 didn't deal with Mr. Altman, but I know about these meetings and I think it's important that the White House make sure it responds accurately to any questions and not say that there was only one meeting or anything like that. So I had a concern about additional meetings and I had a concern about the fact that as far as I could tell, recusal had not been mentioned, even though I had learned that recusal had in fact been discussed at the February 2nd meeting, The CHAIRMAN. Thank you. Thank you, Senator Bryan. Senator Gramm. Senator GRAMM. Mr. Mein, your basic involvement here is that you're the one who was asked to look at the Altman testimony to try to decide what he had said that might not have comported with the facts.