David Bossie
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David N. Bossie is the president of conservative non profit Citizens United. In 1992 he started work there as director of political affairs.
He was chief investigator for the Whitewater hearings held by U. S. Senator Lauch Faircloth, and was an investigator for Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), the chairman of the House investigation into alleged Clinton campaign finance abuses.
He has been sharply criticized by both Democrats and Republicans. James Carville said of him, "he made collective fools out of about 80 percent of the national press corps." President George Bush urged citizens not to support his campaigns, saying, "We will do whatever we can to stop any filthy campaign tactics" in a newsletter to 85,000 Republican contributors. Bush also filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission regarding one TV advertisement.
In early May of 1998, Bossie was fired for selectively editing and releasing to media the transcripts of prison conversations of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell that created the impression that Hillary Clinton was involved in billing irregularities at the Rose Law Firm where she and Hubbell both worked.
According to the May, 1998 Washington Post the removal of Bossie "..came as Gingrich sought to contain the damage, condemning 'the circus' that took place within Indiana Republican Dan Burton's Government Oversight and Reform Committee and scolding Burton at a closed Republican Conference meeting for refusing to say that he [Rep. Burton] was embarrassed by the episode. Speaker Newt Gingrich said "I'm embarrassed for you [Rep. Burton], I'm embarrassed for myself, and I'm embarrassed for the [House Republican] conference at the circus that went on at your committee."
Bossie was also an investigator for a book about Bill Clinton, called Slick Willie in 1992. He is the author of The Many Faces of John Kerry, a critical look at presidential candidate U. S. Senator John Kerry. In 2005, Bossie co-produced the documentary Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60, narrated by actor Ron Silver.
Bossie received the Ronald Reagan Award from the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1999.
