Douglas Letter, a 40-year veteran at the Department of Justice who left this spring, is now re-entering government life as general counsel for the House of Representatives, incoming Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced Friday.
When Letter left in March, he was restrained in his criticism of the administration, but hinted at the dysfunction that has come to dominate the DOJ under President Donald Trump.
“One obviously has to be concerned about the Justice Department and the future of the Justice Department,” he said then per NPR.
He first joined the department in 1978 and is considered a bastion of institutional knowledge.
“Douglas Letter has an outstanding and highly decorated record of achievement in service of America,” Pelosi said in a statement. “He will bring deep experience and legal expertise to the House, as he counsels and represents our institution, Members and staff as House General Counsel.”
That’ll burn Donnie’s ass.
Deep experience, institutional memory, legal expertise…it warms the cockles of my heart. We are starving for this.
Nice move, Speaker Pelosi.
Because guess who’s going to have all sorts of helpful knowledge when it comes to Trumpbot DOJ trying to thwart Dem House investigations? This is rather brilliant.
Like Leclerc, helping the Free French take their country back. God damn it, we’ve been waiting a long time for this.