This summer, Rep. Michele Bachmann and four other Members of Congress drew fire for writing letters to inspectors general in five executive branch departments calling for investigations of pro-Muslim Brotherhood influence within the US government.
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Among the letters' signatories were former Attorneys General Edwin Meese, Richard Thornburgh, William Barr and John Ashcroft, former National Security Advisor William P.
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We know all this because the attorney general has blocked the publication of a raft of letters that Prince Charles wrote to seven government departments between 1 September 2004 and 1 April 2005.
His letter to the attorney general calls for a fresh inquest, while the letters to the IPCC and DPP urge a fresh investigation into allegations of manslaughter, corporate manslaughter, perverting the course of justice and misconduct in a public office.
His first job, in a general trading firm in Warsaw, involved him writing letters in Yiddish about the price of dry goods, but alongside this he knew a charmed existence close to nature in the wilds of north-eastern Poland, hunting or just tracking a legendary variety of game.
There were no angry letters to the White House and the Attorney General's office demanding an explanation of how these prosecutions came about.
In late April California Democrat and corporate scourge Henry Waxman fired off letters to AID, the Pentagon and the General Accounting Office demanding to know why standard open-bidding processes were skirted.
In 2007, the Justice Department's inspector general found widespread violations in the FBI's use of the letters, including demands without proper authorization and information obtained in non-emergency circumstances.
These members also sent letters and pertinent attachments to every state treasurer and attorney general in the country in August and again in November of last year urging a security-minded review of state equity and debt portfolios.
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When contacted by CNN, she said she was not aware of the letters and that the phrase refers to her husband's general philosophy of care.
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"We will be petitioning the government, the attorney general, the Director of Public Prosecutions on all these various matters and these letters will be going out tomorrow".
But he issued two letters to both the Treasury Department and the International Trade Commission regarding their inspector general.
In 1912, then Postmaster General Frank Hitchcock authorized local postmasters to allow postal employees and others to respond to the letters.
General Dynamics NASSCO, a major ship design, construction and repair company, mailed warn letters to about 1, 040 employees in San Diego, Norfolk and Mayport, informing them that they could be indefinitely laid off in April -- at the end of April through the summer, due to the possible cancellation or delay of maintenance and repair work and uncertainty created by sequestration.
They have framed their allegations in lawsuits, letters, phone calls, e-mails and complaints sent to the Texas attorney general's office and the City of Dallas.
Mr Clarke ruled that letters Mr Jones sent him and First Minister Rhodri Morgan should be referred to the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith.
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Liz Dux, from law firm Russell, Jones and Walker, said letters had been sent to the Savile estate, Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Broadmoor, Leeds General Infirmary and the BBC saying 20 clients who claim they were abused by the late presenter are considering legal action.
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The Postmaster General has pointed to technology as a prime reason, to wit, email has replaced the mailing of letters and bills.
By contrast, the Consul General in Stuttgart, Samuel Honaker, made the visa process "unnecessarily hard, " at least according to letters from Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Pictures and an ardent rescuer, to U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
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