Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment

by David P. Schippers and Alan P. Henry

Book Overview

Back by popular demand, the bestselling inside story of the impeachment of Bill Clinton! This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895262436
• ISBN13: 9780895262431
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Bipartisan Bashing.

Anyone who cares enough about freedom and democracy to take the time to cast a vote must read David Schippers' book, "Sell Out." Schippers establishes himself as a fair and independent thinker with high integrity, and then proceeds to tell the true story behind the impeachment of Bill Clinton, revealing the liars and cowards on both sides of the aisle. It's good reading. But the real story in this book is the revelation on what Schippers was working on before Zippergate pushed it to the sidelines. To this he devotes a few dozen pages early in the book in which he details his investigation of Al Gore's activities with the INS prior to the 1996 election. In an effort to expedite the naturalization of one million immigrants who might be more likely to vote Democratic, Team Gore pressured the INS to suspend standard background check procedures on applicants for US citizenship. The result was 75,000 convicted felons naturalized--20% of whom had re-offended as US citizens within two years--and another 168,000 naturalized without proper fingerprinting and FBI criminal history checks. Clinton/Gore imported criminals to maintain power. Literally thousands of US citizens were needlessly robbed, raped, and murdered as a result.In light of the other Democratic voter fraud allegations such as giving away cigarettes in Milwaukee, touring the jails to register misdemeanor crooks, and the mysterious disappearing 50,000-vote Bush lead in Florida late on election night, the INS debacle is something worth reading about. Most people have never heard this story. The mainstream Press won't touch it. This is arguably the worst political offense ever committed in this country, if true. Schippers, a life-long Democrat who voted twice for Clinton, shares the facts and makes a convincing case. --Christopher Bonn Jonnes, author of Wake Up Dead.

Behind the scenes of the Impeachment of President Clinton...

David Schippers, lead counsel for the House Republicans who managed President Clinton's impeachment gives a revealing and, ultimately, distressing review of the events leading up to and following the President's Impeachment. The major media outlets have led us to believe that the American people didn't care about impeachment. However, now that nearly two years have passed, recent polls indicate that indeed, the American People did care and that the majority of them believe that President Clinton deserved to be impeached. Sadly, the ultimate "sellout" came, not at the hands of the Democrats in the Senate, but at the hands of the Senate Republicans -- members of the same party that was prosecuting the case against the President. It was Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) who told Henry Hyde (the House Judiciary Committee Chair) "We're not going to let you dump this on us." And it was Alaska Senator Ted Stephens who told the House managers that it didn't matter if the y could prove that the President raped a woman and then stood up and shot her dead...they were not going to get 67 votes in the Senate to convict. So much for their oaths, yes SWORN OATHS, to be impartial. In fact, after the trial, Senator Lott claimed he could have tallied the votes before the trial began. I would stongly recommend reading this book on an empty stomach...you may loose your lunch when you read the kind of "crap" that went on behind the scenes at the hands of some of this nations "leaders".

A must-read for any informed voter!

We are told by those in the popular media that the public is wanting to put the impeachment proceedings of 1998-1999 behind them. But, for any informed and/or educated voter, it is vitally important to know what prompted the proceedings and the dynamics behind what transpired. "Sellout" by David Schippers is that book that sheds light on the whole episode.Mr. Schippers impressed me tremendously with the way he carried out the impeachment proceedings. Unlike anyone else involved - that goes for every politician AND every member of the media - he was perhaps the one individual who put politics aside for the sake of law and seeing justice done. He understood that what transpired was not a result of the so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy", and also understood that they couldn't just ignore the charges against President Clinton because widespread and wholesale violation of the law had occurred. "Sellout", then, is his account of what all took place. In it, we are presented with the facts without any pretense of political bias. He admits at the outset to being a lifelong Democrat, but in the course of this book, one can find - if he or she is honest with oneself - no political bias or spin. It is, in those immortal words, "just the facts". He describes how the Republicans in the Senate turned their backs on the law, along with the Democrats, all under the guise of "bipartisanship". Here, the reader finally gets the names of those who sabotaged the impeachment trial before it ever cleared the House of Representatives. Mr. Schippers also plots out the total lack of regard for the law in both parties, despite the overwhelming evidence, that ultimately led to a travesty of justice. Mr. Schippers also backs up his account with the evidence that can be shown in conformity with the law. He presents partial or full transcripts from various testimony and, more remarkably, the documents showing a startling plot to naturalize immigrants (legal and illegal) in order to bolster the Democrat vote. I must admit that I am a Republican, but I found Mr. Schippers account to be sickening in regards to how the Republicans in Congress acted. And if there was any way to have any less respect for the Democrats in Congress, this book found that way. "Throw the bums out? " After reading this book, I say "You betcha!"...Republicans and Democrats alike. This book shows that nobody in the Senate, and a great many in the House, should be able to claim that they did the right thing. Their actions did serious damage to the law and the Constitution, so they have nothing to be proud of.I again commend Mr. Schippers for writing this book. He really came out of the impeachment proceedings as a true patriot, and does the American public a tremendous service by writing "Sellout". If anything, it makes me give even more thought to who I elect to Congress in the future. That is why I rate this book with the full 5 stars, and heartily recommend it as essential reading to voters throughou

Brilliant, Shocking, Disgusting

This book is an excellent summarisation of the case against Bill Clinton, and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is guilty of perjury, obstruction of justice and abuse of power. Brain-dead Clinton fans may wail and moan about it, but it is undeniable. And it is also undeniable, on the basis of Schippers' excellent volume, that the Republican Senators for the most part lost their courage when it was required most. Hopefully this courage will be recovered in the coming years, and justice will be done.

The Clinton legacy, and it ain't pretty

Well, the Clinton legacy has been written for all to see. David P. Schippers book, "Sell Out" is a look inside the impeachment of a crooked president and how his minions were used to protect him from getting the justice We, the American People, deserved.No matter what lies and deceit Clinton's Library may have, "Sell Out" shows what really happened. How the Republicans lost their nerve, and the Democrats prevented "one of their own" from being prosecuted.This book will make you mad, but it will tell you the truth, and that may help. It will also be Number 1 soon