Douglas Letter
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Douglas Neal Letter is an American attorney. He was general counsel to the United States House of Representatives from 2018 to 2022.[1] [2] He is now chief legal officer for Brady: United Against Gun Violence.[2] From 1978 to 2018, he was an attorney in the United States Department of Justice, ultimately serving as director of the appellate staff for the Civil Division.[3][1][4][5][6]
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Born | Douglas Neal Letter (1953-09-27) September 27, 1953 (age 70) |
Education | Columbia University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (JD) |
During a 2014 hearing before a federal court in which Letter was representing the United States Government in a lawsuit brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, he made headlines after providing erroneous information to judges regarding the legality of National Security Letters.[7][5][6] The Justice Department later issued a written apology to the court for Letter's statement.[5]
Letter received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1975 and his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1978.[8]