"Bossie was hired as a political activist during the Whitewater scandal.
Mr. Bossie worked for Fred Thompson's U.S. Senate investigation of Whitewater.[4]
After the Republicans won control of the United States House of Representatives in the 1996 elections Dan Burton, (R-IN), became chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. In 1997, he hired Mr. Bossie as chief investigator to look into Clinton campaign finance abuses.[4] By May 1998, Burton came under intense partisan pressure; even fellow Republicans complained that committee staff had published redacted tapes and transcripts of former United States Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell's prison telephone calls omitting some exculpatory passages. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich pressed Burton to seek Bossie's resignation.[5] Shortly thereafter, Burton accepted Bossie's resignation.[6]
Burton fired Bossie early in the investigation for supervising the editing of recordings and transcripts so that they portrayed President Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Clinton staffer Webster Hubbell in a negative light.[citation needed] Committee chief counsel Richard D. Bennett (now a federal judge in Maryland) hired a team of professional investigators to continue the House investigation into campaign finance abuses
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And also from wikipedia:
In the 1992 U.S. presidential election, Floyd Brown headed up the Presidential Victory Committee, which backed the candidacy of George H. W. Bush. CBS Evening News reported that Floyd Brown was observed to be in the company of NBC news producer Ira Silverman as they stalked the family of Susann Coleman, a former law student of Bush's opponent Bill Clinton. Miss Coleman had committed suicide, and Brown was attempting to disseminate a rumor that she had had an affair with Clinton. Brown[not in citation given] and associate David Bossie reportedly stalked the family of a suicide victim. In April 1992, 30 news organizations received "an anonymous and untraceable letter" by fax "claiming Clinton had had an affair with a former law student who committed suicide 15 years ago." Floyd Brown attempted to link Clinton to the 1977 suicide of this "emotionally distraught young woman, seven-months pregnant."[55]
The Bush-Quayle campaign eventually filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Brown, seeking to distance itself from his tactics.[56][57] The group had filed its intent to air the ad with the Republican Party, and Bush's campaign director James A. Baker III, who waited 25 days before responding to the letter, after the ad had been airing continuously. Brown has said of the incident, "If they were really interested in stopping this, do you think they would have waited that long to send us a letter?"[58] The practice of using tips from sources such as Brown was examined in 1994 by Howard Kurtz, media analyst for the Washington Post. Kurtz surveyed the major networks, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and other influential media outlets, and found varying levels of use of Brown's information on David Hale as a witness in the Whitewater controversy. At this time, Brown confirmed that he had been the source of four mainstream media stories that had received attention from the Columbia Journalism Review because they bore striking resemblance to the opposition research being disseminated by Citizens United.[59] In 2008, Floyd unveiled a new attack ad against Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, on the Fox News network, while also appearing as a real estate investor commenting on the mortgage fraud crisis.[60]
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