Vanessa Le

Vanessa Le advises clients in high-stakes matters before Congress, sensitive investigations, and geopolitical risk mitigation.

Vanessa draws on nearly a decade of service in the Executive Branch and Congress, as well as substantive national security experience and a keen ability to manage sensitive oversight issues, to help clients navigate:

• Congressional investigations
• Sensitive internal investigations
• Geopolitical risk assessments and mitigation

As lead investigative counsel for the Majority at the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) from 2017 to 2021, she participated in over 180 transcribed interviews, drafted and served all SSCI subpoenas, and co-authored the SSCI’s comprehensive bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 elections.

Vanessa also provided ongoing legal advice to SSCI leadership related to the committee’s oversight of intelligence activities, constitutional authorities, and whistleblower matters. While at the committee, Vanessa also served as Designee to Chairman Richard Burr and as the Counterintelligence and FBI Monitor for the Majority.

Vanessa served as Special Advisor to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines and Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). In these roles, she led the intelligence community’s interagency effort to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and worked to advance key ODNI initiatives, including Privacy Shield negotiations. While at ODNI, Vanessa completed a detail as Associate Counsel in the Office of White House Counsel, where she worked on sensitive oversight matters.

Complementing her government experience, Vanessa practiced at another global law firm, where she focused on national security and global trade and congressional investigations.

She began her legal career as an Honors Attorney at the National Security Agency.