How the Impeachment Process is Working

By Walter Pincus

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010.  He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.  

This first stage of the House impeachment inquiry, being held behind closed doors under the chairmanship of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), is setting a firm, fact-finding, foundation for what is to follow.

These depositions, as described in a “Dear Colleague” letter sent Wednesday to all members of the House, portray an unusual format from the normal congressional hearing. Held in a secure room in the basement of the Capitol, the sessions are open to Democratic and Republican members from three House committees — Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight — plus an equal number of staff from each panel.

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