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General counsel to the United States House of Representatives
Douglas Letter
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General counsel to the United States House of Representatives
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Douglas Letter is general counsel to the United States House of Representatives, a position he has held since 2018. 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.
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. The Justice Department later issued a written apology to the court for Letter's statement.