Viet D. Dinh

• This is a Vietnamese name; the surname is Dinh.

Viet D. Dinh (also known as Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt or Đinh Phụng Việt; born February 22, 1968) was the Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush. He was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act. http://www. ... http://www. ... Vietnamese names generally consist of three parts: a family name, a middle name, and a given name, used in that order. ... February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Many of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... President George W. Bush signing the USA PATRIOT ACT in the White Houses East Room on October 26, 2001. ...

Biography

Dinh was born on February 22, 1968 in Saigon, South Vietnam. Dinh and his family emigrated to the United States to escape oppressive campaigns from the Communist Government of Vietnam in 1978. They settled for two years in Portland, Oregon, and they then moved to Fullerton, California. February 22 is the 53rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... Official language Vietnamese Capital Saigon Last President Duong Van Minh Last Prime Minister Vu Van Mau Area  - Total  - % water 173,809 km² N/A Population  - Total  - Density 19,370,000 (1973 est. ... The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a country in Southeast Asia. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Roses, Stumptown, Bridgetown Location Location in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates , Government Country State County United States Oregon Multnomah County Mayor Tom Potter Geographical characteristics Area     City 145. ... Nickname: Motto: Official website: http://www. ...

Dinh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1990 with an A.B. in Government and Economics. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was a Class Marshal, an Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics, and Bluebook editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude in 1993. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... Harvard University campus (old map) Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the year. ... The crest of Harvard Law School is drawn from the Royall coat of arms Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... The Harvard Law Review is a journal of legal scholarship published by a student-run group at Harvard Law School. ...

After graduating from law school, Dinh served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Judge Laurence H. Silberman was appointed United States Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in October 1985, and took senior status on November 1, 2000. ... The United States Courts of Appeals (or circuit courts) are the mid-level appellate courts of the United States federal court system. ... ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Sandra Day OConnor (born March 26, 1930) is a former American jurist and politician who served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. ...

Dinh has served as Associate Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee, as Special Counsel to Senator Pete V. Domenici for the Impeachment Trial of President Clinton, and as counsel to the Special Master in In re Austrian and German Bank Holocaust Litigation. Whitewater is formed in a rapid, when a rivers gradient drops enough to form a bubbly, or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white. ... Peter Vichi Domenici (born May 7, 1932) has served as a Republican U.S. Senator from New Mexico continuously since 1973. ... The impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1998, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding. ... William Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ...

He is a member of the District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court bars.

Dinh currently serves on the boards of the News Corporation, Liberty’s Promise, the American Judicature Society, the Transition Committee for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and the ABA Section on Administrative Law. News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ... Founded in 1913, the American Judicature Society (AJS) is an independent, nonpartisan, national organization of judges, lawyers, and interested members of the public whose mission is to improved the justice system - to secure and promote an independent and qualified judiciary and fair system of justice. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and Republican politician, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ... The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) is a non-profit organization of 166 law schools in the United States. ... American Bar Associations Washington, DC office The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. ...

He currently resides in Washington, D.C., teaches at Georgetown University Law Center, and is the principal at Bancroft Associates PLLC. In 2006 he joined Kenneth Starr in challenging the constitutionality of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act [1]. Flag Seal Nickname: the District Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All) Location Location of Washington, D.C., with regard to the surrounding states of Maryland and Virginia. ... The schools original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. ... Before the signing ceremony of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, President George W. Bush meets with Senator Paul Sarbanes, Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and other dignitaries in the Blue Room at the White House July 30, 2002. ...

His representative publications include Defending Liberty: Terrorism and Human Rights in the Helsinki Monitor, Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise in the Journal of Corporation Law, and Financial Sector Reform and Economic Development in Vietnam in Law and Policy in International Business. He is also the author of Judicial Authority and Separation of Powers (forthcoming).

Department of Justice

Dinh served as Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush. As the official responsible for federal legal policy, Dinh worked with issues of illicit drugs, racial profiling in federal law enforcement, exploitation of children, human trafficking, DNA technology, gun violence, and civil and criminal justice procedural reform. Dinh was also involved in the selection and confirmation of 100 district and 23 appellate judges in his role representing the DOJ. After 9/11, Dinh conducted a comprehensive review of DOJ priorities, policies and practices, and played a key role in developing the USA PATRIOT Act and revising the Attorney General's Guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Race in the profile of a persons considered likely to commit a particular crime or type of crime (see Offender Profiling). ... Trafficking in human beings (or human trafficking) involves the movement of people (mostly women and children) against their will by means of force for the purpose of sexual or labor exploitation. ... The general structure of a section of DNA Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid —usually in the form of a double helix— that contains the genetic instructions specifying the biological development of all cellular forms of life, and most viruses. ... A United States federal judge is a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with Article III of the United States Constitution. ... The United States Courts of Appeals (or circuit courts) are the mid-level appellate courts of the United States federal court system. ... The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ... The explosion resulting from the crashing of United Airlines Flight 175 into the South Tower. ... President George W. Bush signing the USA PATRIOT ACT in the White Houses East Room on October 26, 2001. ...

Georgetown University Law Center

Dinh is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law School. His expertise lies in constitutional law, corporations law, and the law and economics of development. He is also currently Co-Director of the Asian Law & Policy Studies Program. He previously served as Co-Director of the Joint Program in Law and Business Administration, from 1998–99. The schools original sign, preserved on the north quad of the present-day campus. ... Constitutional law is the study of foundational laws that govern the scope of powers and authority of various bodies in relation to the creation and execution of other laws by a government. ... Corporations law or corporate law is the law concerning the creation and regulation of corporations. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Vietamese refugee

His family was separated in 1975 when his father, Phong Dinh, was imprisoned in a re-education camp after the fall of Saigon. His father was being held as a political prisoner in the family's war-ravaged homeland. He escaped in 1978, and remained a fugitive in Vietnam, when his mother, Nga Thu Nguyễn, and his older siblings got on a boat with 85 other people and set out for freedom. For 12 days Dinh was in a broken 15-foot-long boat with no food or water as they encountered a Thai fishing crew that gave them food and gas, and helped fix the boat and pointed them toward land. When they reached Malaysia, they found only to be met by gunshots from a patrol boat; the Malaysians didn't want them. Their boat docked but Dinh's mother realised that the port police would force them to leave the next morning, so she sneaked back out to the boat alone that night with an axe and damaged the boat so as not to be sent back on it. After six months as refugees in Malaysia, Dinh's family made it to Oregon in November 1978. They picked strawberries for menial wages, sending money back to Dinh's father and a sibling hiding out in Vietnam. After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, the crop damage forced his family to relocate to Fullerton. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnamese: Thành Chí Minh) is the largest city in Vietnam, located near the delta of the Mekong River. ... A political prisoner may be someone held in prison or otherwise detained, perhaps under house arrest, because their ideas or image are deemed by a government to either challenge or threaten the authority of the state. ... Nguyá»…n (Vietnamese: Quốc ngữ ; Chữ nho 阮 (help· info)) (pronounced , see below for a full explanation) is the most common Vietnamese family name. ... The axe or ax is an ancient and ubiquitous tool that has been used for millennia to shape, split and cut wood, harvest timber, as a weapon and a ceremonial or heraldic symbol. ... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... Species 20+ species; see text The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants. ... Mount St. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

Dinh was honored by his high school alma mater when he was added to Fullerton's wall of fame. He will share that wall with an ideological opposite, David Boies, former Vice President Al Gore's lawyer for the Florida recount. Alma mater is Latin for nourishing mother. It was used in ancient Rome as a title for the mother goddess, and in Medieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary. ... David Boies (born March 11, 1941) is a lawyer and a managing partner of Boies, Schiller & Flexner. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ... Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. ... Bush lost the election. ...

Dinh was reunited with his father in 1983. In 1992, he was reunited with one of his sisters at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, a meeting filmed by the newsmagazine show Dateline NBC. 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Refugee camp for Rwandans located in what is now the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following the Rwandan Genocide A refugee camp is a camp built up by governments or NGOs (such as the ICRC) to receive refugees. ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ... Dateline NBC title card Current co-anchors Stone Phillips and Ann Curry. ...

Future SCOTUS nominee?

Dinh has been mentioned as a potential nominee to The Supreme Court of the United States in a Republican administration [2]. There has never been an Asian–American United States Supreme Court justice. John Roberts is sworn in as Chief Justice by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens in the East Room of the White House on the same day as his confirmation, September 29, 2005. ... Seal of the Supreme Court Scotus redirects here. ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ...

Articles, interviews, and testimony

• "Former Official Backs Lobbyists in Leak Case", Washington Post, 2006-02-14.
• "Bob Barr, Bane of the Right?", Washington Post, 2006-02-11.
• The Patriot Act and Privacy Issues. Transcript, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 2006-02-02. (Adobe PDF)
• The Patriot Act and Privacy Issues. Transcript, Hardball with Chris Matthews, 2006-01-13. (Adobe PDF)
• "Congress Has Jurisdiction on Hawaiians", Honolulu Advertiser, 2005-11-01. (Adobe PDF)
• "Enough Already", Wall Street Journal, 2005-10-27. (Adobe PDF)
• "Candor Needs Privacy", USA Today, 2005-07-27. (Adobe PDF)
• "Roberts Reviewed", Slate, July 2005.
• "Justice O'Connor's Indelible Stamp", Washington Post, 2005-07-03. (Adobe PDF)
• "No Place to Hide", Washington Post, 2005-02-18.
• "Detentions Are Appropriate", USA Today, 2004-12-19.
• "The Patriot Act Is Your Friend", Interview with Kim Zetter, Wired News, 2004-02-24
• "Justice for All", Wall Street Journal, 2003-12-15. (Adobe PDF)
• "America After 9/11: Freedom Preserved or Freedom Lost?", Testimony for the Senate Judiciary Committee, 2003-11-18
• "Let Justice Take Its Course", New York Times, 2003-10-02. (Adobe PDF)
• No Place to Hide. American RadioWorks. Retrieved on 2006-04-11.
• "Sacrifices of Security", Interview with Bryant Gumbel, PBS, 2003-07-15
• "At Home in War on Terror", Los Angeles Times, 2002-09-18.
• Remarks at the Swearing in of U.S. citizens, Ellis Island, 2001-07-10
• "Once Upon a Time in Arkansas", Interview with Peter Boyer, Frontline, PBS, 1988

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External links

• Bancroft Associates PLLC
• Profile of Viet D. Dinh, Department of Justice
• Viet D. Dinh Professor of Law; Co-Director, Asian Law & Policy Studies Program at Georgetown Law School
• Biography of Viet D Dinh by the Institute for Corean-American Studies
• "News Corporation Elects Two New Directors," Press Release, April 16, 2004
• "At Home in War on Terror," Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2002