Douglas Neal Letter is an American attorney. He was general counsel to the

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from 2018 to 2022. He is now chief legal officer for Brady: United Against Gun Violence. From 1978 to 2018, he was an attorney in the

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, 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

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, 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. Letter received his undergraduate degree from

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in 1975 and his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1978.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Letter, Douglas Columbia College (New York) alumni Living people UC Berkeley School of Law alumni United States Department of Justice lawyers United States House of Representatives lawyers 1953 births

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