David Schippers is a Chicago lawyer.[1]
He became a public figure when a friend of his, Congressman Henry Hyde, asked him to be the Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, which was holding an inquiry on whether President Bill Clinton had committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, during which he allegedly committed perjury regarding his affair with then White House Intern Monica Lewinsky. Schippers was a lifelong Democrat, but accepted and took the job in April 1998.[2]
After an investigation which made headlines and television coverage around the world, the committee in December 1998 voted to impeach Clinton, a decision which Schippers himself supported.[3]
In early 1999, being appalled at how the U.S. Senate conducted the impeachment trial, he penned the book "Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment," which vigorously attacked the Clinton White House and portrayed some members of the Senate in an unfavorable light. He also proceeded to do some investigative work for the conservative legal watch-dog group Judicial Watch.
Later, in 2001, Schippers claimed in an interview with Alex Jones that he was warned ahead of time by FBI agents that a terror attack was going to occur in lower Manhattan:
AJ: Now later you got it from FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota that there was going to an attack on lower Manhattan.
David Schippers: Yea - and that's what started me calling. I started calling out there. First of all, I tried to see if I could get a Congressman to go to bat for me and at least bring these people out there and listen to them. I sent them information and nobody cared. It was always, "We'll get back to you", "we'll get back to you", "we'll get back to you." Then I reached out and tried to get to the Attorney General, when finally we got an attorney general in there that I would be willing to talk to. And, again, I used people who were personal friends of John Ashcroft to try to get him. One of them called me back and said, "Alright I have talked to him. He will call you tomorrow morning." This was like a month before the bombing. The next morning I got a call. It wasn't from Ashcroft. It was from somebody in the Justice Dept.[4]
Bibliography
- Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment by David P. Schippers with Alan P. Henry, Regnery Publishing, 2001 (ISBN 0895261952)
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