Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until our investigation (whatever that consisted of).
Schippers spent the months of June to August planning to nail the president. 
mnli hypothesis: Schippers spent the months of June to August planning to nail the president.  premise: Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until our investigation (whatever that consisted of).