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.

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 Chicago 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]

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 conservative legal watch-dog group Judicial Watch.

Schippers also gained some fame by claiming in an interview with Alex Jones that he was warned ahead of time by FBI agents that a terror attack was going to occur in lower Manhattan.[2]

AJ: Now later you got it from FBI agents in Chicago and Minnesota that there was going to an attack on lower Manhattan.

David Schippers: Yea - and that's what started me calling. I started calling out there. First of all, I tried to see if I could get a Congressman to go to bat for me and at least bring these people out there and listen to them. I sent them information and nobody cared. It was always, "We'll get back to you", "we'll get back to you", "we'll get back to you." Then I reached out and tried to get to the Attorney General, when finally we got an attorney general in there that I would be willing to talk to. And, again, I used people who were personal friends of John Ashcroft to try to get him. One of them called me back and said, "Alright I have talked to him. He will call you tomorrow morning." This was like a month before the bombing. The next morning I got a call. It wasn't from Ashcroft. It was from somebody in the Justice Dept.[3]

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  1. ^ Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs biography of David Schippers
  2. ^ Alex Jones Interviews David Schippers: Government Had Prior Knowledge of Pending Terrorist Attacks
  3. ^ [http://www.infowars.com/transcript_schippers.html Alex Jones Interviews David Schippers: Government Had Prior Knowledge of Pending Terrorist Attacks

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