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"Fighting vicious Chicago mobsters was nothing compared to dealing with certain members of Congress!"
David P. Schippers, former Chief Counsel, House Judiciary Committee
David Schippers has bad news for the politicians who betrayed the impeachment process: He took names and notes.
This is the book that at long last reveals the true story of how both parties ignored shocking evidence and made a mockery of Bill Clinton's impeachment...
LIES. TREACHERY. DOUBLECROSSES.
And that was just the Republicans!
"I had no inkling of the extent of Bill Clinton's guilt; until I saw the mountains of yet-unreleased evidence."
Such was the mind-set of tough ex-prosecutor David P. Schippers; a lifelong Democrat who made his name prosecuting big-time Chicago mobsters; when he took the position as Chief Counsel to the House Judiciary Committee.
He didn't know what he was up against.
Schippers; the quintessential honest man – had no idea that justice was the last thing most congressmen desired, and evidence was not what they wanted to see. He didn't expect to be hamstrung by both parties. He thought the congressmen wanted to get to the truth. He discovered they just wanted to get out; period.
Bill Clinton got his acquittal. The congressional leaders got their deal. And now in "Sellout," David Schippers gives them all something they richly deserve a full accounting of
the truth about the shameful impeachment farce, including disclosure of previously sealed evidence that will have White House flacks screaming in protest.
"Sellout" is a saga of betrayal of truth, justice, the Constitution and, ultimately, the American people and their presidency. Schippers tells the whole story through the eyes of a tough, veteran prosecutor. Meticulously documented from notes Schippers made on the scene behind locked doors, "Sellout" reveals startling revelations never previously published. It will anger many (especially those whose names are named!) from both parties.
HIGHLIGHTS OF "SELLOUT"
- REVEALED – names of the Republicans who did the most to hamstring and betray the work of the 13 House managers trying to bring Clinton to justice.
- REVEALED – the names of five Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who adamantly refused to examine the evidence against Clinton. Not coincidentally, these were the same people who protested most loudly that "There is no evidence!"
- REVEALED blunders (and deliberate obstruction) by the Republicans that allowed the Democrats to distort the truth and spin opinion in favor of Clinton.
- REVEALED the 15 crimes committed by the president, including abuses of power that make Nixon look like a choirboy. How the Republicans helped remove these charges from the articles of impeachment.
- REVEALED what went on in private meetings during which the Republican leadership stripped Schippers and the House managers of their ability to fully investigate Clinton.
- REVEALED how the Justice Department blatantly acted as a defense shield for Clinton, blocking witnesses and enabling the White House to avoid cooperation with requests for information.
- REVEALED chilling new evidence about Clinton's abuse and intimidation of Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Dolly Kyle Browning. (New details of threats used against them after the impeachment are also disclosed.)
- REVEALED the speech David Schippers never got to make publicly to the House Judiciary Committee recommending impeachment of the president.
- AND MUCH MORE!
Speaking out after the failed impeachment of President Clinton, Republican counsel David Schippers says that the House Impeachment managers were betrayed by the Republican leadership in the Senate. In an interview with Human Events, he said:
"SCHIPPERS: I think the most important factor that the public should know that they don't know is that, before we ever appeared on the floor of the United States Senate, the House impeachment managers and I were told that there was no way we could win.
QUESTION: Who told you that?
SCHIPPERS: Six Republican senators. Members of the leadership."