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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, cynism, 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.
David P. Schippers
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