[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] 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.