David Schippers
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David Schippers is a lawyer. An attorney in private practice since 1967, Schippers is the senior partner in the Chicago law firm of Schippers & Bailey. The firm specializes in trust law, labor law, trials and appeals in the state and federal courts of Illinois and throughout the country.
From 1963 to 1967, Schippers served as a member and later the chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section of the U.S. Department of Justice at Chicago.[citation needed] He prepared and tried many major criminal cases in the federal courts and was also involved in a great number of major grand jury investigations.[citation needed] He previously served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office as an assistant United States attorney, trying major criminal cases on behalf of the government and preparing and arguing appeals on behalf of the government.
Schippers earned both his undergraduate and J.D. degree from Loyola University in Chicago. He has served as a teacher of trial advocacy and advanced trial advocacy to senior law students at the Loyola University School of Law. He has also taught trial advocacy at the Willamette University College of Law in Salem, Oregon, and at the United States Air Force's Air University in Montgomery, Alabama.[1]
His life changed forever[citation needed] and he became a public figure when a friend of his, Congressman Henry Hyde, asked him to be the Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, which was holding an inquiry on whether President Bill Clinton had committed impeachable offenses in his handling of the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, during which he allegedly committed perjury regarding his affair with then White House Intern Monica Lewinski. Schippers was taken aback by the offer[citation needed], as he was a lifelong Democrat,[citation needed] but accepted and took the job in April of 1998. After an investigation which made headlines and television coverage around the world, the committee in December of 1998 voted to impeach Clinton, a decision which Schippers himself supported. In his testimony to the committee, he rhetorically asked, "How can anybody in any country believe anything that Bill Clinton says?"[citation needed]
In early 1999, he was appalled at how the U.S. Senate conducted the impeachment trial and a short time later, he penned the book "Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton's Impeachment," which vigorously attacked the Clinton White House and portrayed some members of the Senate in an unfavorable light. He also proceeded to do some investigative work for the non-profit law firm Judicial Watch.
In a radio interview[2] with Alex Jones he has claimed foreknowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks[3] and said that the Middle East was behind the Oklahoma City bombing.[4] These claims have not been verified.
He is also Mentioned in The 9/11 Commission Report Omissions and Distortions by David Ray Griffin. His views regarding 9/11 are given some credibility here, though the credibility of Griffin has been called into question.[citation needed]
