Sell Out: The Inside Story of President Clinton’s Impeachment by David P. Schippers Chief Investigative Counsel for the Clinton Impeachment with Alan P. Henry Regnery Publishing, Inc.; ISBN: 0895262436 Hardcover - 352 pages 1 edition (August 21, 2000) Dimensions (in inches): 1.12 x 8.50 x 5.83 Backdoor deals, behind the scenes. As a former Chicago prosecutor, David Schippers thought he had seen everything—treachery, double crosses, sellouts. But what he saw behind the scenes at the Clinton impeachment shocked him to his core. This is his story—the story from a man who knows more than anyone else about what went on behind closed doors leading up to the impeachment of President Clinton. David Schippers, the former Chief Investigative Counsel of the House Judiciary Committee and a loyal Democrat, went against his party, the press, and public opinion to build a powerful case against the most corrupt President in American history and bring him to justice. But in this startling book, Schippers shows how the entire impeachment process was what Chicago politicians call a “First Ward election”—a rigged ball game, a sellout. And he tells you who took the dives. In Sellout you’ll learn: Which GOP Senator told Schippers and the thirteen House impeachment managers, “You’re not going to dump this garbage on us.” Which Democrats never bothered to examine the evidence—because they simply didn’t want to know. Which GOP Senator shouted, “I don’t care if you prove that [Clinton] raped a woman and then stood up and shot her dead—you are not going to get sixty-seven votes.” Why Democrats and Republicans conspired to conceal the most damning evidence of impeachable, even criminal, offenses. How a note handwritten by the President himself offers evidence of perjury. How Clinton tried to keep his women quiet. How Schippers unraveled a “criminals for Clinton” conspiracy involving immigrants hurriedly naturalized for Democratic votes—a program run from the office of Al Gore. How Republicans cooperated with Janet Reno’s Justice Department to keep secret the LaBella report on possibly impeachable Clinton-Gore fund-raising offenses. Sellout is a stunning indictment of President Clinton’s corruption—and of the congressional leaders who let him get away with it. David P. Schippers has been a practicing trial attorney for more than forty years. Under Attorney General Robert Kennedy, he led the Justice Department’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Unit, which convicted such mobsters as Sam Giancana and Sam Battaglia. At the invitation of Congressman Henry Hyde, he led an oversight investigation of the Justice Department and eventually became Chief Counsel to the House Managers charged with the impeachment trial of President Clinton. He has since returned to private practice with his firm, Schippers & Bailey, and lives with his wife in the Chicago area. Alan P. Henry has had a distinguished newspaper career covering three decades with the Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Middlesex News, and Pioneer Press, where he is currently Deputy Executive Editor. He has won numerous awards for news, investigative, feature, and column writing and is an award-winning writer of short stories. From Sellout: If you ever plan to vote again, you might not want to know what went on behind the scenes on Capitol Hill leading up to and during the impeachment proceedings against President William Jefferson Clinton. What I saw, as Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Judiciary Committee and therefore the man in charge of compiling the case against the President, was not a pretty sight. Lies, cowardice, hypocrisy, cynicism, butt-covering, amorality,— these all combined to make a mockery of the impeachment process.… When the time came to name this book, one word came immediately to mind: “Sellout.” The Republican leadership in the Senate and House sold out the House Managers and our investigation. Democrats in both Houses sold out basic principles of law and decency for the sake of protecting one of their own. But most distressingly, the President of the United States of America and his White House water boys sold out the American people—not just in a one-time spasm of political expedience, but in a deliberate snarl of sophistry and cynical manipulation of public opinion, the singular aim of which was political self-preservation. In the process, he soiled not just himself, but the Constitution, the public trust, and the Presidency itself. Price: $23.35 - Click here to order: