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 newletter to 85,000 Republican contributors. Bush also filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission regarding one TV advertisement.
Bossie was fired in 1998 for releasing edited transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations that created the impression Hillary Clinton was involved in billing irregularities at her law firm. The move was seen as a response to pressure from Speaker Newt Gingrich who said at the time, "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."
He was 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.
Bossie received the Ronald Reagan Award from the Conservative Political Action Conference in 1999.
External links
- Disinfopedia: David Bossie (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=David_Bossie)