We're entitled to a trial. Why are we being sold out? You're
double-crossing us. We've done our duty; it's up to you to do
your duty. We are all Republicans. You are going to let them make
fools out of us." - James Rogan, House Manager
Republican Senators Subverted the Rule of Law
Editorial
By MARVIN LEE
Many Americans were angered by the hypocrisy and cowardice
displayed in public by U.S. Senators during the Impeachment of
William Jefferson Clinton. But it is nothing compared to the
hypocrisy and cowardice they displayed behind closed doors. David
Schippers, Chief Investigative Counsel for the House Impeachment
Committee, now reveals what happened behind those closed doors.
His new book "Sellout" [1] leaves one with contempt for
Republican Senators and for the mainstream media which in this
case as in all others was used as a propaganda instrument by the
White House.
Republican Senators had the majority to set the rules of the
Impeachment, but were so afraid of the White House and the
Democrats that they let the Democrats set the rules:
"You know," Lott said, "we've been discussing this with the
Democrats, and everybody wants a fair hearing but we don't
want to spend weeks on this. We can't just shut down the
Senate. We have important matters to address."
The House managers fought the Republican Senate leadership to get
a fair shot at a trial in the Senate. Congressman Jim Rogan of
California said to Lott:
We're entitled to a trial. Why are we being sold out? You're
double-crossing us. We've done our duty; it's up to you to do
your duty. We are all Republicans. You are going to let them
make fools out of us."
Senator Stevens of Alaska expressed an even greater contempt for
the rule of law:
"After having just been told by the Senate leadership that in
effect the trial was over before it began, [Chairman Hyde]
said: "I doubt if you would want to get the Senators on
record, before a trial, stating they would never vote for
impeachment."
Senator Stevens interrupted, "We could get them for you
tonight."
"Then do that and let America see who has prejudged this case
before trial."
That shut Stevens up, at least temporarily.
Indeed, none of the Senators ever took a single look at the
evidence that convinced House members to vote for Impeachment.
Shippers' staff kept a log of who entered the secure room in the
Ford building to look at the boxes of secret evidence gathered by
Kenneth Starr against the president.
No Democrat member of Congress ever took a look at the evidence
before the vote on impeachment. Of the 65 congressmen who saw the
evidence, 65 were Republicans, and 64 voted for Impeachment.
The evidence included a clear pattern, or modus operandi, of
intimidation of witnesses: Dolly Kyle Browning, Juanita
Broaddrick and other "Jane Does" received the same package from
White House lawyers. The package included a false affidavit, a
motion to quash the motion to be deposed, and a memorandum of law
supporting the motion.
The evidence also included Shippers' staff's interview of Juanita
Broaddrick in which she related that she was raped twice, not
once. After the first rape Clinton said "My god, I can do it
again!" And he did.
When Juanita's husband approached Clinton later and said "Don't
go near her or near her home; don't you even so much as look at
her," Clinton responded: "I didn't know she was with you when
that happened."
Other revelations
Among the other revelations made in the book:
(*) The Bureau of Prisons covered up the murder of an inmate
by a prison official.
(*) The Department of Justice ignored criminal referrals from
the Healthcare task force led by Hillary Clinton, and from
serious campaign abuses in New York.
(*) The jogger who threatened Kathleen Willey before her
deposition by Jones' lawyers threatened her lawyer as well.
(*) After Kathleen Willey's deposition with White House layers
present, the skull of a small animal was left in front of her
door. Willey's cat had been missing for a few days. The M.O.
of Clinton's Mob friends.
In fact, David Schippers refers to the large amount of evidence
against the president that remains under seal for the next 50
years:
"A great deal of evidentiary material remains under seal or in
the executive protection of the House Judiciary Committee.
While I cannot discuss that evidence, except in general terms,
I am free to reveal other evidence and testimony that my staff
developed independently, both during the oversight
investigation of the Justice Department and while engaged in
the impeachment inquiry. Some of that material is discussed in
this book. In the telling, neither political party will be
happy. But so be it."
If the United States recovers from this wholesale subversion of
the rule of law, we fortunately do have a very accurate record of
this dark chapter in U.S. history. Twenty years from today nobody
is going to remember how a Senator voted on Welfare reform or a
public transportation bill. But the record accurately reflects
what they said and did and how they voted during the Impeachment
of Bill Clinton. David Schipper's book, as well as the archives
of the Washington Weekly, ensure that they will never be able to
run away from that record.
Their names will live in infamy.
Published in the Aug. 28, 2000 issue of The Washington Weekly.
(http://washington-weekly.com) Copyright � 2000
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