Douglas N. Letter spent four decades defending presidential power and secrecy at the Justice Department. Now he’s the architect of the House of Representatives’ legal strategy to force the Trump administration to cooperate with congressional investigators.
Letter, the new House general counsel, is prominent among the cadre of legal advisers and investigators that Democratic leaders and committee chairs have assembled as they dig into the actions of the executive branch.
Other hires include veterans of congressional investigations of steroid use in major league baseball and of Apple Inc. stashing $102 billion of assets offshoreto avoid U.S. taxes.
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