Reading Room Document

Authority of Acting FBI Officials to Sign National Security Letters

Under the statutes authorizing the FBI to issue national security letters, the Director of the FBI may designate Acting Deputy Assistant Directors and Acting Special Agents in Charge to sign national security letters. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/olc/file/2009-01-16-acting-fbi-nsl/download.

January 16, 2009