Douglas Letter

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]}

Doug Letter
Born	Douglas Neal Letter (1953-09-27) September 27, 1953 (age 71)
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]

See also

• Timeline of investigations into Trump and Russia (2019–2020)