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Title: SellOut: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment by David P. Schippers, Alan P. Henry ISBN: 0-89526-243-6 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 21 August, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (103 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Sellout could have been so much better...
Comment: As an unabashed supporter of the Impeachment of former President Clinton, I was psyched when I learned that David Schippers, Majority Counsel for the Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee in 1998 and early 1999, had written a book chronicling those very interesting times. I relished the opportunity to learn more about what was really going on behind-the-scenes with the Republican Congressmen charged first with assessing evidence delivered by the Independent Counsel and determining if Impeachment was warranted, then with presenting the two Articles of Impeachment voted out of the House to the Senate.
If you're looking for a book about Impeachment and are truly interested in what was happening when the cameras were off, skip "Sellout" and read "The Breach" by Peter Baker of the Washington Post, which is chock full of insider dish from both sides and is an incredibly fair and unbiased account of a time most often written about with partisan rancor on one side or the other.
Sellout has its merits. Schippers has a jaded story to tell of how a president was impeached by a House of Representatives that was surprisingly reluctant at times and how he was acquitted by a Senate that wanted absolutely nothing to do with it, with most Republican Senators as resistant to their Constitutional duty as their Democrat counterparts. But he could have given us so much more. In his impeachment investigation, Schippers was forever chasing leads, hoping for some "bombshell" that Ken Starr may have neglected, rather than working more diligently with the substantial case before him. Perhaps if he had spent less time chasing leads that went nowhere and were never going to see the light of day, and more time analyzing and carefully compiling the voluminous evidence at hand, the President's lawyers would not have been able to exploit a few needless (albeit harmless) errors presented by House Managers who relied on the accuracy of Schippers' work when preparing to present evidence before the Senate. It wouldn't have changed the outcome but the beleaguered Managers deserved better quality support during the trial than they got from this man. Similarly, in Sellout, Schippers wastes a lot of space reprinting his presentation to the House Judiciary Committee (something that is probably still available in one form or another on the internet, if you really wanted to review it) and discussing those leads that never made the cut, rather than more generously sharing with the reader the fruits of his unique role as participant in and fly-on-the-wall to only the second Presidential Impeachment in our country's history.
Schippers is bitter about the way the Senate choked when the Impeachment Trial came their way, and rightfully so. Trent Lott and his colleagues will never be mistaken for profiles in courage when historians look back at this trial. But Schippers could have given us so much more. Sellout comes alive when Schippers takes us with him into the room as Republican members of the Judiciary Committee debate the wisdom of continuing the Impeachment Inquiry after a disastrous showing in midterm elections, into the meetings where shocked House Managers learn that Senate Republicans want little or nothing to do with their case and intend to undercut them through procedural maneuvers, and into the hotel suite as three of the House Managers meet the woman at the center of it all, Monica Lewinsky, as an angry crowd gathers on the street below. He just doesn't take us along for the ride as much as he could have.
If you're interested in what Schippers developed with regard to Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broaddrick and Dolly Kyle Browning, you'll enjoy this book. The author also presents some disturbing allegations about former Vice President Gore and efforts to bypass the usual procedures in his zeal to naturalize an astounding number of immigrants in time to vote Clinton/Gore in '96. But if you're more interested in what it was like for those politicians caught at the center of this political storm, you'll get a lot more out of Baker's "Breach" than Schippers' "Sellout".
Rating: 5
Summary: Bipartisan Bashing.
Comment: 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.
Rating: 3
Summary: Knowledge is Power?
Comment: The fragments of stories that arise from the Clinton impeachment period grow further and wider with each retelling of the story from the perspective of many who claim to know what everyone else doesn't. The analysis of each of these books reminds us that like today in the case of the Iraq War and the Bush first term, the American people actually know very little of the behind the scenes events, or their accuracy. What is clear, however, is that the White House environment has for some time now become one of the most hostile territories of America's political structure. It certainly seemed to be from the earliest time that Clinton took office until the time he left. Who knows how much is true, or false, and how it may, or may not, have been handled, and by whom? Though we may get some inkling of how the White House is designed to work from the West Wing series, it may well be the ideal, and not the reality. If everything that has been told about Clinton was true, the American people would have seen the greatest Jeckyll and Hyde act of all time, it seems, and that would be doubtful and improbable. If it is true, it would be unusual that Hillary would want to run for President, and the people of America may need to give far more scrutiny to the Presidents it chooses than they have in the past. Either way, the impact has been felt in all quarters of the nation, and will not likely be easily forgotten. Questioning how much knowledge the people have, and how much power over the office people have are critical issues at this time in America because of the accumulated knowledge we have of all past Presidents, that grows with each new review of what America thought she knew, but found later she didn't.
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Title: The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House by Barbara Olson ISBN: 0895261677 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Barbara Olson ISBN: 0895262746 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security by Bill Gertz ISBN: 0895261960 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department by David Limbaugh ISBN: 0895262371 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism by Ann Coulter ISBN: 1400050308 Publisher: Crown Forum Pub. Date: 24 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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