From 2012 to 2013 he was the Director of the NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center, responsible for round-the-clock cryptologic activities to discover and counter adversary cyber efforts.

From June 2013 to his appointment as Deputy Director in January 2014, Ledgett headed the investigation of leaks regarding NSA surveillance programs made by Edward Snowden.

[5] Ledgett was part of a group of former intelligence officials that signed a letter that stated the Biden laptop story “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation".

[6] It was in fact revealed the laptop contained no evidence of Russian disinformation, and portions of its contents have been verified as authentic.

He further argued that President James Madison would be proud of the way in which Constitutional checks and balances have governed NSA mass surveillance.