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https://www.npr.org/2020/07/27/895709528/norm-eisen-says-he-drafted-10-articles-of-impeachment-a-month-before-inquiry
http://archive.today/2020.09.10-050157/https://www.npr.org/2020/07/27/895709528/norm-eisen-says-he-drafted-10-articles-of-impeachment-a-month-before-inquiry
When Democrats took back the House of Representatives in 2018, the Judiciary Committee hired Norm Eisen to be special counsel.
He'd been a White House ethics czar and a U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic during the Obama administration. And when he showed up to work for Congress, he started preparing for the possibility that the House might impeach President Trump.
And the book reveals that Eisen had drafted 10 articles of impeachment a month before Pelosi's announcement.
Having lived on the Hill for a year, I do think impeachment would have gone differently. I don't think there would have been an impeachment if we had insisted on all 10 of those articles, however meritorious I may feel they are. Politics is the art of the possible. And Chairman [Jerrold] Nadler of the Judiciary Committee, who I worked for; Chairman [Adam] Schiff of the Intelligence Committee, who is a leader on all these matters; and Speaker Pelosi ultimately were able to come together around a set of articles that unified the caucus and that we were able to get through